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It's been a lot of years now but as I recall and many here might not know this but Motor Freight Express , York Pa. was the one responsible for CF starting Con Way . What happen was CF was in talks with MFX to buy them out but heres the sticking point CF told them that they would buy MFX after they(MFX) paid over 300 k to CSPF.MFX wouldn't have anything to do with that so after sometime of bickering back and forth CF said the hell with ya were going to open our own company .Too late. The Teamsters allowed this to happen. The beginning was in the 80's when the union did not strike CF over the Conway startups. CF created a holding company that allowed them to use CF profits and capital to fund and grow Conway. Conway was to be 4 small regional carriers that would not compete with Consolidated Freightways. One of those 4 was a buyout of the union carrier Penn Yan. It wasn't very long before the union was gone and the 4 regionals began interlining with each other. The next step was to merge the 4 together and then redirect the business from CF to Conway by sharing customer lists, sales and pricing information. All of this was done right under the nose of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
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