Ready Trucking, based out of Ellenwood, GA. shuts down.

[Mike]

Ellenwood, Georgia-based trucking company Ready Trucking will be closed for good as of Friday, August 30, according to an employee CDLLife spoke with on the phone.

The news of the closure was also confirmed by the company’s Google listing. Ready Trucking employs 91 drivers and operates 103 power units.

The company was founded in 1968 and was a second generation family run business, according to their website.

Second trucking company announces shutdown in 24 hours

A Georgia-based trucking company has announced that they are closing down permanently -- and the news comes within hours of another major trucking company closure.

cdllife.com

 

[Ontario Outlaw]

Why is everyone closing up shop?

 

[Mike]

Why is everyone closing up shop?

Not sure. No reasons stated so far in the ones I posted today.

 

[ironpony]

Not sure. No reasons stated so far in the ones I posted today.

Because the economy sucks... despite what's coming out of the Beltway.

 

[Rigjockey]

The company was founded in 1968 and was a second generation family run business, according to their website.

Probably the kids got a hold of the business Mom and Dad built and the kids fucked it all up!
i am guessing, I have seen it happen.

 

[Mike]

Because the economy sucks... despite what's coming out of the Beltway.

Seriously.

More loads now than last year. Rates are at a historic high if you just take out 2018.

It’s not the economy that is causing this.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Overexpansion and poor management of it, methinks.

We're kind of experiencing it too. Spreading us thin. People quitting out of frustration and self-correcting (hopefully).

 

[ironpony]

Seriously.

More loads now than last year. Rates are at a historic high if you just take out 2018.

It’s not the economy that is causing this.

So the fact that manufacturing is down means nothing to you? By the way, wherever you're getting your trucking rate info from is full of it. Historic highs was LAST YEAR. DAT has been show this year's mediocre rates slipping all month.

 

[Mike]

So the fact that manufacturing is down means nothing to you? By the way, wherever you're getting your trucking rate info from is full of it. Historic highs was LAST YEAR. DAT has been show this year's mediocre rates slipping all month.

And I repeat, take 2018 out of the mix, when everyone was scrambling to adjust to the ELD, 2019 rates are historically high. The numbers don’t lie.

 

[Mike]

21000 new trucking companies created from June 2018 through July of 2019. This is a key factor in trucking companies struggling right now. More freight, but far more trucks to move that freight.

Many companies expanded prematurely and/or increased pay/benefits to drivers, largely based on what they mistakenly felt was going to be the "new normal" back in 2018. That term "new normal" was very popular when talking about rates last year.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Yeah I hate farmers too. They told me to hate them at my last skinhead clan human supremacist puppy haters meeting.

Wait. You were there too? What row?

 

[Duck]

Wait. You were there too? What row?

I was the guy cooking the spotted owl nuggets at the snack table.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I was the guy cooking the spotted owl nuggets at the snack table.

Oh I didn't recognize you in your apron.