{"id":9772,"date":"2023-08-07T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/news\/yellow-trucking-files-for-bankruptcy-will-shut-down\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:28:00","slug":"yellow-trucking-files-for-bankruptcy-will-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!----> <!----> <\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yellow Trucking has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and will wind down its operations in the coming months, the company announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow, a nearly 100-year-old company, was struggling to remain afloat amid mounting debt and a bitter struggle with unionized workers. Its bankruptcy filing in a Delaware court estimated assets and liabilities of up to $10 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The filing comes years after former President Trump&#8217;s administration gave the company a $700 million bailout in an effort to save it and its roughly 30,000 workers. The company says it still plans to fully repay that bailout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<table class=\"stock-fundamentals\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th class=\"ticker\">Ticker<\/th>\n<th class=\"security\">Security<\/th>\n<th class=\"last\">Last<\/th>\n<th class=\"change\">Change<\/th>\n<th class=\"percent\">Change %<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ticker\">YELL<\/td>\n<td class=\"security\">YELLOW CORP.<\/td>\n<td class=\"last\">2.36<\/td>\n<td class=\"change neg\">-1.21<\/td>\n<td class=\"percent neg\">-33.89%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Despite the promise, Yellow has some 100,000 creditors, and it will face $1.3 billion in debt payments coming due in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>US TRUCKING GIANT YELLOW SHUTTING DOWN OPERATIONS AMID STANDOFF WITH TEAMSTERS UNION<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" ><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yellow, formerly known as YRC Worldwide Inc., has struggled with financial woes for several years. The company&#8217;s acquisitions of other carriers over the past few decades grew it to become the fifth-largest trucking firm in the nation and the third-largest less-than-truckload carrier. However, the low-cost carrier struggled with its debt load.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>UPS-TEAMSTERS DEAL THREATENS TO KEEP INFLATION ELEVATED<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yellow CEO Darren Hawkins attempted to reduce that redundancy through a restructuring initiative dubbed &#8220;One Yellow.&#8221; The Teamsters union \u2013 which represents 22,000 of Yellow&#8217;s 30,000 employees \u2013 agreed to the first phase of the plan but did not agree to the second phase, which the <u>trucking titan<\/u> insisted was needed for its survival.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" ><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TEAMSTERS-TRUCK-GETTY.jpg\" alt=\"Teamsters trucking protest on road\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yellow sued the Teamsters in June, alleging the <u>labor organization<\/u> was &#8220;unjustifiably blocking&#8221; its modernization plans. Then in July, the company notified the Central States Welfare and Pension funds that it would not be making its $50 million required payment, leading the Teamsters to threaten to strike.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a result, Yellow customers fled amid the strike threat, accelerating the cash-strapped company&#8217;s death spiral and wiping out shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>The Teamsters union said the company&#8217;s demise was of its own making. The union announced last week that it was notified Yellow was ceasing operations and filing for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox Business&#8217; Breck Dumas and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/yellow-trucking-filed-bankruptcy-will-shut-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Trucking has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and will wind down its operations in the coming months, the company announced Monday. Yellow, a nearly 100-year-old company, was struggling to remain afloat amid mounting debt and a bitter struggle with unionized workers. Its bankruptcy filing in a Delaware court estimated assets and liabilities of up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down | iSafeSpend<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yellow Trucking has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and will wind down its operations in the coming months, the company announced Monday. Yellow, a nearly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down | iSafeSpend\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yellow Trucking has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and will wind down its operations in the coming months, the company announced Monday. Yellow, a nearly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"iSafeSpend\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-07T14:27:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-07T14:28:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1691418480_yellow-corp.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"739\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"News Room\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"News Room\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"News Room\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5b8c1c75336efaf09b163cd1eab0c9bf\"},\"headline\":\"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-07T14:27:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-07T14:28:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772\"},\"wordCount\":363,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772\",\"name\":\"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down | iSafeSpend\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-07T14:27:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-07T14:28:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"Yellow Trucking has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and will wind down its operations in the coming months, the company announced Monday. Yellow, a nearly\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/\",\"name\":\"Solutions For Real\",\"description\":\"Latest Finance News and Updates\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Solutions For Real\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sf-logo-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sf-logo-1.png\",\"width\":690,\"height\":64,\"caption\":\"Solutions For Real\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5b8c1c75336efaf09b163cd1eab0c9bf\",\"name\":\"News Room\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/avatar_user_1_1691264579-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/avatar_user_1_1691264579-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"News Room\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down | iSafeSpend","description":"Yellow Trucking has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and will wind down its operations in the coming months, the company announced Monday. Yellow, a nearly","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down | iSafeSpend","og_description":"Yellow Trucking has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and will wind down its operations in the coming months, the company announced Monday. Yellow, a nearly","og_url":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772","og_site_name":"iSafeSpend","article_published_time":"2023-08-07T14:27:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-07T14:28:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":739,"url":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1691418480_yellow-corp.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"News Room","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"News Room","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772"},"author":{"name":"News Room","@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5b8c1c75336efaf09b163cd1eab0c9bf"},"headline":"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down","datePublished":"2023-08-07T14:27:59+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-07T14:28:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772"},"wordCount":363,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772","url":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772","name":"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down | iSafeSpend","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-08-07T14:27:59+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-07T14:28:00+00:00","description":"Yellow Trucking has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and will wind down its operations in the coming months, the company announced Monday. Yellow, a nearly","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=9772#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Yellow Trucking files for bankruptcy, will shut down"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/","name":"Solutions For Real","description":"Latest Finance News and Updates","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#organization","name":"Solutions For Real","url":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sf-logo-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/sf-logo-1.png","width":690,"height":64,"caption":"Solutions For Real"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5b8c1c75336efaf09b163cd1eab0c9bf","name":"News Room","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/avatar_user_1_1691264579-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/avatar_user_1_1691264579-96x96.png","caption":"News Room"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/isafespend.com"],"url":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9774,"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions\/9774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}