Desert Equipment Transport — SUPERSEDED (entity is operational, not future)¶
2026-06-06: This page has been superseded. DET is no longer a "future arm" — it is operating. The canonical DET page is
entities/det.md.
Key facts now codified on the canonical page:
- DET hauls trucks and cars STE buys at auction (captive transport)
- DET is owned by Brandon Tomkins personally, NOT by ATE, for liability isolation around freight operations
- DET → STE is a related-party transaction; arm's-length pricing must be defensible
Historical planning docs (cost modeling, operating model) that informed DET's standup are still in this directory for reference: DET Operating Model, DET Cost Modeling. They're frozen snapshots of the pre-launch thinking, not the current operating reality.