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Yellow Freight and an economy on the margin

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Posted By: DVC, 8/1/2023 11:20:43 AM

By John F. Di Leo Yellow Freight, a massive, almost century-old LTL carrier, has gone out of business, and the “spin” of the business world will likely rival the spin of the political world in covering this news. [snip]Approximately 30,000 people are now unemployed, who had a job last week. That’s 30,000 experienced people - truck drivers, dock workers, mechanics, bookkeepers, sales reps, IT experts, customer service reps, and other employees in all levels of management and back-office clerical services. They will now be competing with the millions of other jobseekers already in the marketplace. Hopefully they will find something better; they could hardly do worse.

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The government bleeds all companies with a huge, oppressive tax burden. And many companies just crumble under the crushing load, which literally bleeds away the money they make. The massive increase of diesel fuel cost has to be a major factor in crushing this company. How many more will crumble, crushed by the ever increasing tax burden of the Central Planners.
Yellow is headquartered in KC, and we'll see a lot of economic impact from this in our area, but it will be spread around, too. They had terminals everywhere.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Jerseyden 8/1/2023 11:53:30 AM (No. 1525185)
To this day I still can’t understand how any working person ‘ non gov’ can vote for a Democrat. They ruin anything they can get their hands on . Look at the economy, education, military, DOJ, big cities, etc.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: 3XALADY 8/1/2023 11:53:32 AM (No. 1525186)
OP I saw a comment, don't know if it was referring to this company, but they said that contracts were based on diesel fuel at $3/gallon and now it was $7/gallon. That would certainly create a financial problem.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 8/1/2023 11:54:32 AM (No. 1525188)
How's that Union job working out now? You can only squeeze a company so much before it runs dry.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: smsnod 8/1/2023 11:59:37 AM (No. 1525196)
This is the “Bidenomcs” they are so proud of.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JHHolliday 8/1/2023 11:59:59 AM (No. 1525198)
Good article. He lays out the inter-connectivity and how the 30,000 employees will not be the only ones to feel the hurt.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mc squared 8/1/2023 12:32:39 PM (No. 1525208)
I'll add that the endless 'covid delays' won't get better either. There is a downstream ripple effect when a major player folds up.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: red1066 8/1/2023 12:35:30 PM (No. 1525209)
In as much as the trucking industry is crying out for drivers. I suspect many of those Yellow drivers will find jobs with other firms. However, it wasn't all that long ago that shelves were empty, and goods were in short supply because of transportation issues. Putting a huge trucking firm like Yellow out of business seems to be counterproductive if your goal is to get products shipped across the country and the economy moving again. Yellow's demise therefore is the result of the environmental policies of the democrats which is to eliminate everything operating on fossil fuels and to ruin the U.S. economy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 8/1/2023 12:46:43 PM (No. 1525223)
A big company dissolving makes Democrats giddy with excitement especially in New York and California. In those states when companies pack up and leave, it is high-fives and smiles in Albany and Sacramento among the elected Democrats wearing $2k suits driving taxpayer gassed cars.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 8/1/2023 12:49:05 PM (No. 1525225)
Thirty thousand more people dependent on the government for their very lives. The left sees that as an achievement. This is all be design. Anti-fossil fuel and anti-transportation. Send out another round of hardship checks!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: NorthernDog 8/1/2023 12:53:11 PM (No. 1525229)
It will be toughest on truckers who are nearing retirement age but are not quite there. A different company will have different procedures, routes, equipment, etc... that you will have to learn fast. Do you want to be the low-seniority driver at age 60?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: LadyHen 8/1/2023 1:00:50 PM (No. 1525233)
fta: Perhaps, someday, we will learn the lesson that a crushing tax and regulatory burden doesn’t just hurt some unknown CEO in a Manhattan office somewhere. This burden makes everything harder for everyone, especially companies on the margin of survival. If there was ever a time to learn that lesson, it’s now. === Indeed but DC does not CARE because everyone in DC is wealthy (and grew up wealthy or married wealth or will retire from DC 100 times more wealthy than they were when they got there) and most have never held a real job in their life. Almost to a man they are immoral unrepentant sinners with no fear of God or retribution. They are totally disconnected from anyone in the real world, anyone who actually works for a living, pays bills, mows their own lawn, raises their own kids, and in the end our "betters" look down on all of us as less than really human and thus grist for their political mill. It is Louis, Marie, and cake all over again only we peasants don't dare take up pitchfork, tar, and feathers least we get thrown into a government gulag with no hope of a fair and speedy trial and then watch as our families and lives get destroyed by the Washington political machine that OWNS everyone and everything in this land. Sadly, as the Roman Empire before us, the solution to all of this debauchery, greed, and power madness will come from outside.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: stablemoney 8/1/2023 1:54:33 PM (No. 1525259)
Yellow was hauling freight. That business will move to a better managed company, and so will many of the laid off employees.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: ARKfamily 8/1/2023 2:51:32 PM (No. 1525283)
#12, it was my understanding from another article that Yellow Freight had customers like Home Depot and Wal-mart. It does make one wonder about the management of the company with big businesses like those two. . .
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Reply 14 - Posted by: red1066 8/1/2023 3:43:38 PM (No. 1525314)
I was that guy #10. At 58 I had to start anew because of factors out of my control and because the people who owned the business were crooked and greedy. Thank God it happened when I still able to work. I found a large company with great benefits and a great 401k plan. Plus, my salary was almost doubled. I worked for an additional ten years, and then called it quits. Those last ten years were a God send.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: HPmatt 8/1/2023 4:24:39 PM (No. 1525324)
Stupid management and stupid Union workers. Both go broke in the end. Time for the freight companies that didn't do stupid things - like agree to freight at fixed prices, and watch diesel fuel prices MAKE YOU GO BROKE when you can't 'pass them on' b/c you were too stupid to pass the cost through to Big Home D and other smart companies. Thank goodness the stupid companies will exit the stage, and smart companies - that make sure they make a profit - will take over the business. If Home D and others cannot get trucking companies to give them freight below cost - maybe the US Post Office will come to the rescue. Like Trump was talking about the USPS and Amazon getting them to do things below cost. Sh00t - China was AND IS shipping stuff from there cheaper than you can in the US.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 8/1/2023 4:46:25 PM (No. 1525329)
This is way bad for Yellow. But come on, folks. Let's keep in mind who keeps our supply chain moving. And why food and goods are always available, America - the land of plenty. Q- Who makes it all possible? A - uh, the truckers. Never forget, folks.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: bighambone 8/1/2023 5:33:28 PM (No. 1525350)
Well a Chinese entity could move in and take over Yellow’s assets?
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Reply 18 - Posted by: plomke 8/1/2023 7:13:56 PM (No. 1525409)
The only people to blame for a Yellow bankruptcy is the p ss poor management at Yellow Motor Freight. Yellow died the day they bought Roadway. Roadway died the day they bought New Penn/Arnold Transportation. Stupid move to buy your competitor with borrowed high interest rate money. Greed and stupidity. Trade marks of the MBA know it all morons who have ruined capitalism and western civilization...
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