Every community depends on people who show up, do the work, and do it well. In southeast Wyoming, one of those people is Rick Fierro, owner and president of RAM Trucking Inc. in Cheyenne, and RAM is exactly the kind of member that makes our association what it is.
Rick founded RAM Trucking in 1998, and for more than a quarter century he has built a hauling and waste removal business that customers across the High Plains have come to rely on. Operating out of Cheyenne with a second location on Avenue C, RAM serves communities across southeast Wyoming and northern Colorado, including Laramie, Fort Collins, Wellington, Burns, and Pine Bluffs. Their work covers construction material hauling, demolition hauling, soil excavation, heavy equipment and machine removal, and waste disposal for construction, residential, and commercial customers alike.
What has kept RAM going strong for more than 25 years is what tends to keep any good business going strong: dependability, quality work, and genuine commitment to the customer. When a contractor in Cheyenne needs a roll-off on site, when a demolition project needs to be cleared out before the next crew arrives, when a project runs long and a haul needs to happen fast, Rick is who they call. That kind of trust is earned one job at a time, and Rick has been earning it since 1998.
Alongside the hauling business, Rick has built a real material recovery operation. RAM recovers concrete, brick and block, wood, and metal from the loads coming through the facility, giving those valuable materials a second life instead of a spot in the landfill. Wyoming is not always an easy place to run a C&D recycling operation. The regulatory environment can be tough on operators who are trying to do the right thing, but Rick keeps fighting to keep this material out of the landfill and back in productive use. That kind of persistence matters.
Anyone who has spent time in this industry knows that recovery markets are not evenly distributed across the country. In a state like Wyoming, with wide open spaces and smaller population centers, the distances are longer, the end-market buyers are fewer, and the economics of moving recovered material can be genuinely difficult. That reality has not slowed Rick down. RAM has stayed committed to sorting and recovering the material coming across their scale, working the relationships and the routes that make it possible to keep concrete, brick, wood, and metal moving to their next use. It is the kind of quiet, steady work that does not always get attention but keeps the industry going in every corner of the country.
Rick and RAM Trucking also represent something important about our industry and about CDRA. Regional owner-operators are the connective tissue of C&D recycling in this country. They serve markets that the large multi-facility operators do not reach, and they build relationships with local contractors and municipalities that keep material moving in the right direction. Rick is one of our newer members of the CDRA community and we are lucky to have him.
Thank you, Rick, for the work you and your team do across Wyoming and Colorado, and for being such a strong part of the CDRA family.
