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Sisters Follow Dad into Transport Business
By Jeffrey Bellant
LAS VEGAS – Adriana and Melissa Meza, who run a logistics company out of Adelanto, Calif., spent a few days at a remarketing conference looking to network and help build their 3-year-old business.
“Adriana and I own and run our own auto transport broker business, called Maranatha Works,” said Melissa Meza.
The women already had experience in the business through their father.
“Our dad, Francisco Meza, is an owner operator, and his company is called Maranatha Cars Transport,” Melissa said. “Although our father is not part of our company, we do consult with him often.”

The company started in November 2020, after Adriana, who got a business degree in 2017, saw a need to be filled.
“I started it on my own at first,” Adriana said. “I started as my dad’s dispatcher. He was having a lot of clients call him and say, ‘Can you get from here to here or there to there.’”
So, Francisco made a suggestion.
“He said, ‘Hey, you already know how the business works,” Adriana said. “Why don’t you just open up your own brokerage so that when a client calls, you can move it for them.’
“He pushed me toward that. So, I thought, I’m just going to do it.”
Adriana said they had a network of transporters through their dad, making it easy to help clients connect with haulers.
Meanwhile, Melissa looked to be on a different path.
“I got a pure mathematics degree,” she said. “That’s on the theoretical side of mathematics.”
She graduated in 2019, expecting to teach at the local high school where math teachers were scarce.
But after graduation, Melissa had a medical issue and then the pandemic hit, postponing a surgery, which disrupted those plans.
“My dad had always wanted me to join the business,” Melissa said. “But I didn’t want to because I saw how hard they struggled to run their own business. So, I would say to my dad, ‘I’m never going to have my own business.’”
Eventually she watched the business start to grow.
“I saw that my sister needed a hand,” Melissa said. “I started to help with dispatching. Then I started to help with dispatching, on-off, as a side job.”
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