My dad worked for CF for over 20 years, my dad was a diesel mechanic . He warned the guys in the shop that it was going to happen. My dad opted to retire 2 years early because he seen what was going on. I know he was upset how the company treated the guys on the shutdown. But when i ask my dad how was it working for CF and my dad always says they were a good company to work for. He is in his late 80s living off the pension he earned while working for them in the Portland shop. All i know is i had a good life growing up, i never went without. Just sad to see how it all went down, to bad.
My Dad worked as a Teamster with them from 1985 - 2002 in Oregon. He won many awards and was a great worker. Still remember sitting on his lap in the older cabover that he let me steer around the yard when I was 3 years old. Also remember going camping and fishing with many of the CF families from Oregon growing up in the 1990s. Great people and memories
I was a driver for CF from 1997-2001. I was laid off about 6 months before they closed their doors for good. I enjoyed working there and decided if I couldn’t drive for CF then I wouldn’t drive a truck anymore period. I still have a CF hat or two in my closet.
They sure showed their gratitude to the employees and customers, just closing up with trailer still full of freight. Then along comes Com-Way, who made the drivers do EVERYTHING, not just drive. I worked for them for 4.5 months...a year too long! It's now XPO, just a different name for a shitty company. I wonder what all these happy employees think about CF now. Everyone needs to remember one thing...your employer is NOT your friend, they do NOT care about you, no matter what they 'give' you or how well they pay. They will stab you in the back in a heartbeat. Don't believe this at your own peril. You may be one of the lucky ones to get out on your terms, luck being the key word. It simply means your employer was not yet ready to screw you over and blame someone else while paying out multi-million dollar bonuses. They make you feel special so you'll work hard and feel good, but when it comes down to it, they don't give one shit about you! Don't devote yourself to a company, it's not your family. Your family will be there for you, your employer won't.
Amen! Business and emotions should never intertwine. We know this now but back then everyone was very naive, for lack of a better term. Con-way had everyone jumping through hoops as well and they also fucked every single employee from back then that built the company. So again, we know this stuff now but the world back then was a different place.
Well said NYVET. Don't forget CEX was union, and they shut them down too, after a strike about 1990 or so. XPO Logistics CEO Bradley Jacobs made $13.3 M last year. Talk about "highway robbery".
The forming of Conway as a regional carrier was double breasting, according to the master freight agreement and against union rules. Eventually, all of the Conways, "CCX, CSE, CSW, etc" worked as one large company. CF freight was sent to the non-union Conways. Thus running the union carrier CF out of business. In my humble opinion.
I remember when they shut the doors,, they did not even adviced their employees that morning, they just showed up to work one morning and all doors and gates where locked up!, poor people (the ones that were good employees)..
My buddy worked in Bridgeview Illinois where the Toyota Park Stadium is now.When they shut down he said a guy smashed his rig thru the locked gates.He then proceeded to take his truck & park it across the greatly used train tracks next to CF,turn off the truck & walk away.Very,Very,luckily a railroad employee had come across the truck right before 2 trains were coming & had the trains stop.It could have been bad.No word if the guy was charged or whatnot but they did tow the truck away
I worked for a concrete pipe company 48 drivers . we showed up one morning & the gates were locked , The cops told us that was all over 10 years there.
Consider This truck was built by Freightliner, which itself was born from CF, and was still somewhat owned by CF at the time of it's build. Shortly afterwards Freighliner would be sold to Daimler Benz, and become Daimler USA.
What a SHAME that CF management didn't make the " dedicated " employees pictured on those trailers number ONE rather than their own greed. Many CF lives were damaged on labor day cf picnics of 2002. TRAGIC.
@@mattstarr8203 Overnite didn't close their doors...Union Pacific sold the unit to UPS in 2006 becoming UPS Freight...I think around 2015/16 UPS sold that unit to CFI taking a 200 million dollar loss on the selling price
They closed the doors on labor day 2002 . Had 16 yrs there. We were notified with an auto call. Then called us a week later to see if we wanted to come work a few days to deliver the freight that was in the system......believe it or not some guys did....
wayne m They wanted their last ride with those FreightShakers! Not gonna lie man if they asked me did I want to do so I would’ve cheered for Joy to drive it a few more times! So sad their long gone now:(!
Don't feel bad for us, I retired with a great pension and my family enjoyed great benefits from the excellent pay, vacation time, and one of the finest health insurance programs. Was a great job while it lasted. I drove a few years before retirement for non union Saia, those poor guys don't know what it's like to work for a good company.
I personally feel it was the best 22 years of my life and have no hard feelings about it, that's just part of life. Driving history from CF opened doors to just about any job I wanted.
Left Holland in 2010 due to injury started for them in, 1989 at huntington wv after YRC bought Holland it was a different company. If it hadn't been for Holland and the other USF company's keeping YRC a float they would have went broke. Still have friends that work there and Holland can't hardly keep drivers they quit to get better jobs it's a shame to watch what YRC did to a good company like Holland
Why is that they where like California Golden Bear protectet by union set of price od load they didnt invest in new logistic tehnology and when act come in power they just didnt now how deal with competition. Image you load good for price that you se let say 5000$ for 1000mile than suddnely you are in market where you foreced drive for 1200$ big diffrence and big uniion companys where just big Dinosurs to adjuste to new set of rules.
@@johnnym11 The purpose of the federal government: to fund a military, print and coin money, AND REGULATE INTERSTATE COMMERCE. The only one they still do is fund the military. Freight rates are at all time highs, trucking wages at all time lows, and look at the safety record of these modern companies. 2 weeks of "school" and let a guy out on public highways in a 80k pound vehicle. The purpose of regulating interstate commerce was NATIONAL SECURITY. Now our logistics are a mess.
Nice truck but makes me wonder what happened to the tractor & trailers of CF ONE, probably destroyed or something which this one should have been preserved in a truck museum after Consolidated Freightways closed up but I'm sure that wasn't an option. God Bless these happy employees at the time & after their hard work & dedication for CF making CF ONE possible.
Equipment sold/auctioned off. If you keep a sharp eye while out on the road, you’ll still see a CF trailer or two on someone’s property being used as a storage unit. I’ve seen a former CF Freightliner FLD being used as a yard jockey somewhere around Atlanta a few years back. They’re still out there.
So sad the company went the way it did like a lot of carriers in history. I worked for Reddaway for 29 yrs and I think they are headed the same direction. Down and out! Sad
I never drove for C F but I remember seeing this tractor and her trailers on the road years ago. They caught my eye because not many C F tractors had sleepers. My thanks to C F for starting Freightliner, I own 5 of them now! I wonder what became of this set.
Love all these posts claiming de-regulation took cf down. The trucking de-regulation act was signed into law by jimmy carter in July of 1980. Not Reagan as so many like to claim. Cf went kaput in 2002.
de regulation happened because CF and other giant companies lobbied for it. Then, CF started up a Non Union trucking company and phased out the Teamster represented company. Wages adjusted for inflation have been stagnant and benefits like pensions and family medical insurance that is affordable are gone. The trucking companies created the driver shortage........ they got what they wanted...
Nice seeing people actual care and take pride. That quality simply doesn't exist in people today. Unfortunately, finances don't work out and banks don't want to work with companies to keep things going.
Their dedication and,their gratitude plus their devotion and,their Awesome loyalty to their families and, friends with their honesty is what,I love In the mid 1970's you would always see their on Trucks coming to Phoenix Az quite a,bit my ,hats off to Consolidated Freight ways from Jason, L from RimRock Az.
I worked the docks for 2 months before they closed. (Bridgeview ill.) there's and old 48 foot CF trailer on 79th. and roberts road parked in a dock right on roberts
I've seen this video once before which is very interesting, I'm sure this is a great memory for those former CF employees after the company has been gone for several years which is sad btw. I'm curious where in the country this truck & trailers are now but I can only imagine the shape of what would look like now. Too bad couldn't been preserved & on display in a museum of some sort. This was a nice thing to do for their company at the time.
This is why I thought I had found a "home", after American Freight Systems, (23 yrs.) shut the doors. Forced to retire, due to medical. Even LIKED, my bosses ! How can I get a DVD of this ?
There is a lot I could say here as A Former Driver for C.F. at CHY. Then for a short time out of Seattle Wa. From 1990 to 1997. I worked at C.F. and Remember when C.F. one Came About. I was told I would be driving C.F. one from SLC to Chy. But that was changed at the last minute. I Remember it Passing Me on the way back to Chy. I was Disappointed but Glad to see it roll by anyway. I was Fired By the Company for Not Cheating on My Logbook. I was Sold Out By the Teamsters Union. They did Not Back Me For Fallowing Federal Law. Laws that D.O.T. Officers Supervisor Said would Ticket Me and Shut Me Down if I Logged the way My Supervisor told Me To. And the Grievance Committee Upheld My "Voluntary Quit." I was Not singled out. Anyone that made full scale money was under attack and pressured to leave. To be replaced by new lower pay scale Drivers. I'm Glad Lou had a Good Career at C.F. I Did Not. But I Worked with a Bunch of Really Great Guys!!! And A Few Not so Great. Best Wishes from Montana! M.H.
Damn, shame, what year was this all done.. they should of also , told the story of how drivers came to work one morning and found out they had no job Nation wide!
this was a company produced propaganda video. I remember they forced us to watch it and document that everyone had watched it. The teamster strike in the 90's and the change from hub and spoke system was the demise. CF thought they could make more money by not hauling freight. I got laid off 6 months before they closed and left with my stock, my pension, my 401k and all of my vacation time. I had a buddy that managed there as well and he stayed several months past cleaning up his terminal and my former terminal. Towards the end it was a horrible place to work. You had to worry every day that they were coming to fire you as a manager. They quietly changed the severance plan without anyone knowing and when I left they denied my sev pay. I sued them and their attorneys told my attorney they would spend $100k to screw me out of $25k. The best part was all the asshole managers I had in the last 10 years that had retired had to go back to work as the company was not there any longer to subsidize their pension program.
The CF Frontline managers payed the high price : PENTIONS LOST! I am thankful that the TEAMSTER'$ PENTION is still on the road. CF , there was NO ltl carrier like it.
Interesting. If you search Lou Tomososki, even on RU-vid, you’ll discover he was in articles nationally in 2017 for not staring at a solar eclipse. He had damage in his right eye yet not only drove truck but competed as well. I searched him to see if there was any info on CF One. I bet he knows what happed to the truck. Also interesting is Donald Moffitt passed away this year at 90!
All those people probably got to retire before the employees got the shaft and they closed with no warning whatsoever but if not they probably felt pretty stupid using their own money to pay for a truck and trailer setup for the company that shafted them
all them dedicated employees and cf gave big screwing in ass Thanksgiving holiday shut the doors I wish all their dedcated employees well and hope they got back on track after getting screwed
I laff a little,then throw up in my mouth a little, then laff some more...all from watching these videos. Like everyone,I wonder what the employees think now.
In 1995 when CF and Con-Way parted ways, Con-Way took CF's millions in debt with them. One month after the split CF was $7,000,000 in the hole. Jes sayin'.
Old Dominion has a lot of them. I work for YRC, and we have leased single axle sleepers from Penske. (Although these have space for another axle in case whoever owns it later wants to put another one on) Pretty much any LTL company that runs sleepers has at least some of them.
@@frederickweeksjr.1189 now there is swift and schneider ! wonderful careers, They probably are paying the same wages the teamsters were paying back then today! If that!
I remember being parked at a truck stop in Washington state and 2 drivers (owner/operators) asking me to park my trailer as to block anyone's view as their family's came to help strip off all the decals from their trucks and the 4 company trailers they where abandoned with .... their bills not paid they delivered their loads on the following Monday while their wives tried to cut deals with the receivers to get paid and get more work so that they could still have work !!! Freightliner had built a crap load of new trucks with such crappy specs it was cheaper to destroy them as no one else wanted them !!! almost 1 billion dollars in debt .... I say thew banks are as much to blame !!! I hope those family's are doing well !!!
Jammie Price If a company like CF can last 80 years, let's see a new company last that long in America today? To much Government intrusion, It'll never happen again!
Must have been a good time when CF wasn’t being asshole to the teamsters and Vice versa… to think 10 years later…. Everyone got screwed. I also like the sun glasses during the speech it’s like they are mobstas
probably got put into service passed around got the shit driven out of it and sold off like the rest of them cause in the company's eyes it's just a truck
Yep the same company that closed the doors right in the middle of a holiday weekend left driver stranded out on the road all them Union shops Teamster companies LTL used to be that was the job to have back in the day they were the Kings now all the non-union LTL make way more than a union ones a total flip flop
Old Lou got screwed with all the others that showed too much love & empathy for the company he should have been behind the wheel that day not that Glen guy ?? It’s strange that I don’t recall any of that from then I was a on call extra board driver for CF in those days I never heard any shop talk about this at all I never knew anyone in the company to have an motivated upbeat attitude like the people in this company film all the drivers & dock workers & Shop labor & office we’re all doom & gloom all the time no one out of the Chicago region were like the people in that video and I find it strange or maybe not that I don’t ever recall this story at all ??? The crew I worked with were not from that cut or caliber of employee !!
Why the hell does a line haul/ city tractor need a sleeper ? I thought earlier in the video the headlight bezel showed a double square headlight not round like in the CF one
