Erickson Transport Corp., a Springfield, Mo.-based trucking company, closed its doors this week, citing increases in fuel prices, insurance and health care costs.

Jim Erickson, president of the family-owned trucking firm, said most of the company's 110 employees had no warning the shutdown was coming.
Most of the workers, including 58 union employees, work out of the Springfield facilities, according to the Associated Press. The others work at terminal facilities Texas, Chicago and South Carolina.
The company was founded in 1953, hauling bulk liquids across the United States. It expanded over the years to include work in Canada and Mexico.