While JC Colley LLC has been operating for over a decade, the company is still just getting started.
Owner and Chambers County native Jeremy Colley had a career in the military, serving and then as a contractor in the Middle East for 8 years. Family brought him back home to Valley, where he happened into the world of trucking.
“I had to find a way to survive. So I started trucking,” said Colley. “We just started from the ground up. I actually bought a couple of trucks and started service and auto parts.”
The business has branched out from not only auto parts but to fabric and decorations, plastics and water.
“Jo-Ann’s at Opelika, that’s our biggest customer. We haul their product to their stores,” Colley explained. “For auto parts, we haul parts. Say there’s seats or seat backs, we haul those pieces and parts here to KIA Parkway, Hyundai Transys, to assemble the seat.”
Today, the company has 26 trucks with as many drivers and over 30 employees total, many of them local.
“Most of our drivers are from here locally. Because when they finish their route, they leave out Sunday, Monday and they’ll get back Thursday, Friday. They’ll come right back here,” Colley said.