i am not keeping up with the freight rates, nor the diesel prices, since i really have no inherent need. seems to me that many of those companies out of business could have tighten their belts a little better. ike laying off drivers for one, and other support staff with high salaries. sales staff should have been fired off or laid off as well, since it is after all the sales dept's job to procure freights. then there are freight brokers they could have called and gotten some freight from.
it's actually as i see it, "only the fittest will survive, the weak ones will fall off to the side".
do i feel sorry for the closed shops?
frankly no. it's a business and if the execs cannot stay fit and trim, then get the hell out.
but i'll just bet, not too many execs at these companies, took a pay cut.........the highest payroll sucking people out there.