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Economic Uncertainty Mounts as a Major Freight Carrier Heads to Bankruptcy

Economic Uncertainty Mounts as a Major Freight Carrier Heads to Bankruptcy
A Yellow Corp. truck is seen near its terminal in Miami, Fla., in a file photo. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas—Yellow Freight, one of the oldest trucking companies in America, located here in this Johnson County city, hit the end of the road Friday when both union and nonunion office workers at the facility were told they had been laid off.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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