They did not always treat their employees good, but they were the kings of trucking. They owned fruehoff and freightliner, a small oil company, emery, menlo logistics, and fully funded the now major trucking company named conway. Since I put it that way they don't sound like a failure do they?
I'm not going to argue with you, I have always respected you. And CF was the biggest once, you are right. And that corporation's management ***** CF while it built Conway. But in the end, they were a failure. When they went head-to-head with Yellow, Roadway and ABF, they failed, the others survived. It wasn't their driver's fault, it was their management's fault. I just get extremely annoyed every time Yellow is compared to CF. They are totally different situations.
I used to run into my friends from CF every day. They would have full trailers from pick-ups while mine was half empty. They would tease me and be all full of themselves. I would let it go, because they never once looked at their companies' financial reports. I was a worry-wart and kept up on all this stuff, because I was watching the non-unions keep growing while we continued to shrink. I didn't want to see CF go under, but I knew they were going to. It was just a matter of time. They were hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate for about three years. I couldn't figure out how they kept going. As bad as some people on this thread say Yellow is, they have never had a stretch like that. Like I told one of their drivers once after he pissed me off, CF is in the business of hauling freight, Yellow is in the business of making money.
Back in the day when I got laid off at my local company and went looking for work, Yellow wasn't my first choice. I used to interline with all the carriers before deregulation, and the one place I hated to go was to Yellow. Those guys always had a chip on their shoulder that you never saw anywhere else, including at CF. But I was willing to go wherever I could get a paycheck and Yellow had just expanded into the area north of Denver where I lived. CF didn't come for a few more years and Roadway and ABF weren't even in town yet. I didn't know it then, but it was a stroke of luck. I wound up with the company I didn't want, and they managed to survive when all the others fell. I eventually had to transfer to Denver and get to work with the same arrogant attitude I didn't like all those years before. Me and a lot of guys from CF and NW who all felt the same way. So I don't have some big love affair with Yellow, I'm just glad I was fortunate enough to accidentally wind up there. During my career they've always been a snobby but successful company. People on here don't like the way they do business because they don't have much regard or compassion for people. My answer to that is neither do UPS, IBM, Exxon-Mobile, Citigroup, Prudential, etc., etc., etc. Such is life in corporate America, get used to it because you ain't gonna change it.