Rising Fuel Costs Suspend General Delivery’s Trucking Service

Rising Fuel Costs Suspend General Delivery’s Trucking Service
March 16, 2008

Trucking business across the country is being hit hard by high diesel fuel prices, and Fairmount-based General Delivery Inc. is no exception. GD president, Chip Thompson, says that with last week’s diesel prices of $3.67 a gallon, the company was paying between $8,000 and $10,000 a day just on fuel for 40 trucks, keeping in mind that a gallon allows trucks to travel 6 miles only.

As a result, the company had to shut off its over the road trucking service, which has been a part of its business since 1950, and the 29th February witnessed the company’s last trucks on the road. Thompson has expressed his sorrow over how the company’s trucking service has come to a halt after 58 years, but the high fuel prices forced the company to come to such a decision.

Although the company is currently working on some restructuring, it is still in the business of repairing trucks and trailers.