Trucking Company Owner Jason Burroughs Uses Mentorship to Help Many

By Je’Don Holloway-Talley | For The Birmingham Times Being a mentor comes naturally for business owner Jason Burroughs who has seen both sides of what it’s like to help others and be helped. Burroughs owns C & B [Carrier and Brokered ] Transportation Systems, a flatbed trucking company that he started in 2020 and has since secured contracts with billion-dollar companies and become the single supplier for diversity, equity, and inclusion for pipe and valve manufacturing company, Consolidated Pipe and Supply, Inc. (CPS Inc.) Between 2018-2020 he worked for The Dannon Project, a Birmingham-based a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that helps unemployed or underemployed at-risk youth and returning citizens reentering society], as a program navigator and instructor before being furloughed due to COVID-19. Currently, he still serves in a mentorship and community partner role within the organization. “I spent time going to prisons enrolling for The Dannon Project … I’ve seen thousands of individuals over the last several years reintegrate back into society and become productive, purposeful individuals,” Burroughs said. He’s also taught financial literacy at Build Up school in Titusville, churches, and other nonprofit organizations. But he’s also been mentored. He’s participated in federally funded initiatives such as the Alabama...