TRUCKING AND FREIGHT RELATED NEWS

I don’t have words for the sheer disregard of American Citizens, watch the whole video…

https://youtu.be/NCHx9LfdPi8?si=h9jwnLamyoEKHAfd

https://www.tiktok.com/@babylionhotshot/video/7422108046018596138?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

Somebody is paying them…

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1047041033610506

SPRINGFIELD – Eastman Chemical Co. – the largest chemical plant in New England and one of the city’s biggest factory employers – will no longer make solvent-based resins at its Indian Orchard plant.

https://www.masslive.com/westernmass/2024/08/eastman-chemical-laying-off-60-will-close-a-manufacturing-line-at-indian-orchard-plant.html

A nearly century-old company that went through a merger two years ago will lay off 217 workers and shutter at least one of its two plants north of Charlotte next year, its layoff notice filed with the state of North Carolina shows. Keystone Powdered Metal Co. makes metal components for car engines and transmissions, electric motors, power tools,…[Read more]

(Bloomberg) — Lumio, a privately owned provider of residential solar panels, filed bankruptcy with a plan to sell its business to its primary lender, White Oak Global Advisors LLC…

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/residential-solar-firm-lumio-files-124433341.html

More than 100 people will be laid off after an envelope manufacturing facility in Schuylkill County closes…

https://www.pennlive.com/business/2024/09/pa-plant-to-close-more-than-100-people-to-be-laid-off.html

Alaska salmon processor Whittier Seafood and an affiliated group of companies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with an Alaska state court.

Whittier Seafood owner Alexey Kozlov said in a declaration filed Aug. 19 that the companies were hurt by sanctions imposed against Russia in the wake of that country’s invasion of…[Read more]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Big Lots will close its distribution center on the west side of Columbus by the end of October, the company said in a filing with the state.

Approximately 379 employees will be terminated after the Big Lots Distribution Center…

https://cwcolumbus.com/news/local/big-lots-closing-west-columbus-distribution-center

The Boohoo Group has leased the entire 1.1 million square-foot facility at 2771 N. Market St. in Londonderry Township, the developer, First Industrial Realty Trust…[Read more]

August data from Cass Information Systems showed the freight market continues to trudge along what is expected to be a trough. Both shipments and freight spend stepped lower from year-ago levels.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/freight-spend-shipments-soft-again-august

An Illinois-based trucking and logistics company, which contracted with the U.S. Postal Service to haul mail has notified over 650 employees, including more than 480 drivers, that the carrier is ceasing operations, according to sources familiar with the closure.

A Baltimore trucking company is suing the owners and managers of the container ship Dali for indirectly crippling its business.

Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and Synergy Marine Group, the owner and crew manager, respectively, of the Singapore-flagged ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore after crashing into it in March, have…[Read more]

Restructuring and use of outside carriers cited as reason for job cuts
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/perdue-transportation-drivers-blindsided-by-layoffs

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/refrigerated-carrier-aa-express-closes-south-dakota-facility-cuts-111-jobs

https://freightwaves.com/news/nashville-brokerage-abruptly-ceases-operations-cuts-130-jobs?oly_enc_id=1350G3911723H2V