Truck stops are a big business. Just look at Tom and Judy Love and their multi-billion dollars fortune. The Haslam family of Tennessee are also billionaires, thanks to their chain of truck stop locations, Pilot Flying J, which they sold to Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway in 2017 - creating a billionaire family with Warren Buffet to thank for the bulk of their good fortune. The Pilot Corporation was founded by Jim Haslam, the father of former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. Jim Haslam was a top football player at the University of Tennessee. He enrolled at UT in the year 1948. The 1951 national championship was won by the Volunteers. He was a member of the O-line and member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and finished second in the vote for the Heisman Trophy during his junior season.After finishing college, he joined the Army and spent time in Korea in the years after the Korean War. He returned to Tennessee and landed a job at Fleet Oil. After a year, he was promoted to head the new Sail Oil chain. In the year 1958, Haslam left Sail to create his own business.
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