Tampa Kickball Society
The League Ben Referees Is the League We Sponsor
In one line
Ready 1 Dump Trailers is a sponsor of the Tampa Kickball Society, an adult recreational kickball league here in town. Ben has refereed in it for years. The sponsorship came after the whistle, not before it.
Why a hauling business sponsors a kickball league
The honest answer is that the order happened backwards from how sponsorships usually work. Ben was already out there with a whistle on weeknights, calling games for people who play kickball for the same reason adults play anything: it gets you out of the house and around your neighbors. Putting the business name on the league came later, once he had been part of it long enough that it would have been strange not to.
Sponsoring a rec league is not a growth strategy. Nobody who plays third base on a Wednesday needs a dump trailer that week. What it does is put a local business on the same field as the people it serves, which is a different thing from buying ad space aimed at them.
Ready 1 Dump Trailers is one truck operation run by the guy whose name is on it. A national franchise can outspend that in every channel except this one. They cannot send a regional manager to referee in Tampa on a Tuesday.
What "local" is supposed to mean
Every hauling company in Tampa Bay calls itself local. Most of them are a franchise license, a call center in another state, and a crew that has never driven the road you live on.
The test worth applying is simple: can you find the owner somewhere in town that has nothing to do with selling you anything? For Ready 1 Dump Trailers the answer is a kickball field, most weeks, in a striped shirt.
When you call (813) 220-6767, that is the same person. He answers the phone, quotes the job, backs the trailer into the driveway, and hauls it off. There is no dispatcher in between and there is no upsell script.
Running something local in Tampa Bay?
Leagues, school groups, neighborhood associations, church cleanup days and community events all generate exactly one thing in bulk, and it happens to be the thing we handle.
If you are organizing something in the Tampa Bay area and want to talk, call and ask for Ben. No form to fill out and no committee to wait on. He will tell you on the phone whether it is something he can help with.