Daseke Announces Stock Plan for Truck Drivers

ADDISON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Daseke, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSKE) (NASDAQ: DSKEW), North America’s largest owner and a leading consolidator of the open deck transportation and logistics market, has announced a ground-breaking new stock plan designed around professional company truck drivers. Daseke became a public company earlier this year and is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbols DSKE and DSKEW. An estimated 1 million shares of common stock with a current valuation of an estimated $9.9 million have been earmarked for the 2017 employee stock awards program. Restricted stock units (which are the right to receive common stock, subject to various vesting, transfer and other restrictions and which are referred to as “stock grants”) will be awarded to the approximate 2,100 company drivers and 800 support team employees who are employed by Daseke operating companies, and who were with a Daseke company in 2016. Stock grants will also be made to company drivers and support team employees who joined, or will join, a Daseke company in 2017.