LME Just closed the doors

Discussion in 'Truckers News' started by WSM1969, Jul 11, 2019.

  1. Texas_hwy_287

    Texas_hwy_287 Road Train Member

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    Im curious to see whos next closing their doors maybe celadon.
     
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  3. LtlAnonymous

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    Celadon has been dying for like three years now. So strange they've still hung on.
     
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  4. WSM1969

    WSM1969 Bobtail Member

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    This story just keeps getting better. Lakeville Motor Express, LME, FLE, and now apparently there is a tie in with Estes, who has been brought in to deliver the freight left behind after they threw us out in the street, and kept 3 weeks of our pay in their pockets.
     
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  5. rabbiporkchop

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    MC-400053
     
  6. Western flyer

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    Just uccured to me.
    I don't see many of their trucks anymore.
     
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  7. BJW

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    Our Ops Manager was told he would get his check after he inventoried our terminal(RVT308).
     
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  8. Western flyer

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    How nice of them.
    Maybe if the drivers go clean out and wash
    Their trucks by hand, they'll get the 3 weeks
    Pay owed to them.
     
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  9. road_runner

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    Maybe a final push to salvage as much as possible before they closed their doors? It's like hiring a few last minute guys to lower the remaining life rafts of the Titanic. They probably never intended to pay them either.
     
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  10. jmz

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    I hope someone makes them pay their employees what they’re owed. It’s no coincidence that they chose to shut down at the last possible moment before payroll was due, in order to squeeze out as much free work as possible.

    What did they have to pay for that was so critical that they decided to use payroll and customer payments for shipments they didn’t plan on delivering? Yeah there’s the court ruling that they owe a bunch of money towards, but they could have still paid everyone and then filed bankruptcy. I bet what happened is the owners decided to pocket everything and walk away.
     
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  11. road_runner

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    I feel for the guys that got roped into this not knowing any better. But I am sure someone had to have known that they used to be called something else before shutting down and reopening somewhere else. It was all over the news.

    There is no way in hell that I would work for a company called USF Amsterdam if they previously called themselves USF Holland and just gutted the company and started somewhere else with the new name. Especially knowing what they did to their previous employees.

    What gets me though is their executives got away with it before. And now they did it again. Someone should be going to jail at this point.
     
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