| There was a lot news on the Bankruptcy of | | | | purchase in 1999. two companies have a long history. |
| Consolidated Freight, which rocked the transportation | | | | Consolidated Freightways Manufacturing Division |
| industry, but what most failed to realize is that CF was | | | | eventually became Freightliner. This folks is the |
| founded in 1929 and this nation lost a great company. | | | | backbone of America. Freightliner eventually sold out |
| of their largest customers was The Boeing Company. | | | | to Daimler Chrysler. This is very serious as the region |
| With Consolidated Freights help we were able to | | | | got hammered by steel, to make trucks, lumber and |
| move logistics around the country so we could out | | | | timber industries buying trucks, then the trucking lay |
| produce and deliver our industrial might to the Germans | | | | offs in manufacturing sector, along with buy back |
| in WWII. Despite the immense volume of logistics CF | | | | leases all killing the prospects of getting out of dodge |
| provided for America they had an incredible safety | | | | under German short term gain lookers pledged against |
| record un paralleled in the industry and could even hold | | | | America heart and sole and fiber. The massive |
| a candle to the Wal-Mart logistics teams. One of the | | | | consolidation of trucking manufacturers, dealers and |
| best safety records in the nation; .Anyone in the | | | | the like were hurt. Also Pac Car Leasing was hurt with |
| Transportation Industry or who reads Commercial | | | | holdings connected to CF, more used trucks for sale |
| Carrier Journal or Transport topics understands that | | | | again just a used truck prices were starting to |
| they too were leading edge on many issues, like B2B, | | | | rebound. Pac Car bought into Rush Peterbuilt who was |
| Same day, expedited services and routing plans | | | | also consolidating sales offices and now a new glut of |
| including trains, planes, ships and trucking and god only | | | | 18,000 used trucks on the market. This is not all, which |
| knows what else in the future had they still been in | | | | plagued the CF Companies. High Fuel Costs in summer |
| business? Leading the industry in high technology for | | | | of 2001 hurt Consolidated Freight and in August 1, 2001 |
| logistics as well.In business since 1929, 15,500 laid off | | | | they had to raise prices, meanwhile competitors such |
| effective immediately after their bankruptcy, a | | | | as Fed Ex Ground waited until way after 9-11. UPS |
| Delaware Corp. with HQ in Vancouver WA, which as | | | | followed and so did JB HUNT, Swift, Covenant and |
| of this year is the highest unemployment in the country. | | | | Schneider. Many independents went out of business. In |
| Think about it a company formed in 1929 after the | | | | 2000 CF Consolidated Freightways with $2.2 billion in |
| depression made it through the war only to be caught | | | | annual revenues, consolidated was going strong. The |
| up in this latest cycle of terror, high fuel prices and | | | | Company's 18,000 skilled professionals specialize in |
| sluggish recession, this was a bad day for all of | | | | freight transportation. Raised prices again in May 2002. |
| America. It is the heart of this country. But such a large | | | | .They nearly made it out of the recession whole, now it |
| company like CF has its tentacles in all sorts of other | | | | is all over for the great men and women who mad up |
| vendor operations, for instance they were the Third | | | | the CF Team. America will miss you and the Trucking |
| largest buyer of Freightliner Trucks in the World. JB | | | | Industry will never be the same.Lance Winslow - Online |
| Hunt recently passed them with a 1 billion dollar | | | | Think Tank forum board. |