Falcon Transport

There still around but they have been way down graded there glory days are behind them and over.

 

I can't speak to the previous ownership, but I will say this. They just hired our operations manager away from my current company and he's the only reason I'd consider leaving tanks. He did a great job while OM here and there were a lot of people pissed when he left. He's a one of the best ops guys I've worked with.

 

Anybody stranded in eastern pa around Reading pa hmu I’ll give you a ride to to a greyhound or help as much as I can.

 

I just heard last night that Falcon is closing the doors. I confirmed it with someone I know there who's not a driver. Sorry to hear y'all are losing your jobs. Hopefully you find greenery pasties.

 

Yes effective 3 hrs ago

 

Same Falcon. Trucks got updated when the investment firm came in.

My figuring is this is a piece of the fallout over the Gam plant closures. Falcon was based in Youngstown, OH, and did a huge amount of business with GM Lordstown (and GM in general).

GM started shutting down plants, investment firm got spooked and killed the carrier off instead of adapting to different markets.

 

That's quite possible. I know the CFO personally, I worked for him at AJW. He's a go getter and if anyone could of gotten them through this, it was him. Evidently there just wasn't enough runway ahead of him to get things back on course.

 

Like I said, the investment firm got spooked. As far as I knew, Falcon was on fairly steady financial ground, and had plenty of flexibility to adapt to different freight markets. Losts of open decks and side kit setups that could go either open or remain as sidekicks, plenty of 53' dry vans.

Falcon was a crap company (I live about an hour out from their home office, their reputation has ALWAYS been in the toilet), but they did serve the needs of the drivers willing to put up with them. The pay sucked, but there were some advantages to their freight operations for the drivers. Lots of dedicated runs available.

Just odd that the company locked up instead of looking to replace the GM freight. After all, they had what? Six months notice that GM was killing US operations? Plenty of time to at least start rounding up new work or working with some broker freight to keep operations going until new contracts could be found.

Investment firm didn't understand trucking, bailed on Falcon when the "gravy train" of cheap automotive freight dried up.

 

There is a grocery outfit in Youngstown that falcon was delivering to stores for ...can't remember the name tho.

 

I read the article in Overdrive. Sounds very Arrow like. Drivers stranded all over the country. No fuel cards. No pay.
Ridiculous