News / US trucking casualties mount as driver shortage and rising costs bite

© Julian Peters

The US trucking market has claimed two casualties inside 24 hours.

On Tuesday, HVH Transportation, a mid-sized firm with 344 tractor units and 324 drivers on its payroll, abruptly ceased operations.

The Denver-based firm, founded in the 1950s, had operated in all states west of the Appalachian mountains except in the deep south.

And yesterday brought news that Georgia-based Ready Trucking, which has 108 power units and 91 drivers, was shutting down.

Their demise brings the tally of mid-sized and large US trucking firms that ...