Big Tex Trailer Manufacturing is closing its Trailer World location in Cordele, Ga., and laying off 100 workers, the company says in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act filing with the state of Georgia.
According to the company's website, the location at 502 S. Midway Road is a BigTex Trailer World dealership offering sales, parts and service on Big Tex and CM trailers. The location will be permanently closed, the notice says.
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The first separations started in January, the company says.
Big Tex makes utility, equipment, dump and heavy-duty gooseneck trailers along with a variety of other work trailers, cargo trailers and tilt trailers. It is headquartered in Mount Pleasant, Texas, and its trailers are manufactured in Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia and Idaho.
