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By Salena Zito

It was no secret that Yellow Corp., the big trucking company that just closed down, was in trouble. Perhaps less known was Yellow's origins in OKC.

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

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. It was an announcement that comes days ahead of an […]

 

Yellow's potential insolvency marks one of the biggest collapses in jobs in the U.S. trucking industry.

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.

“Everybody was shocked,” said a Kansas City-area man who was told he was Yellow Corp.’s longest serving employee before the company shut down. “A lot of people are out of work now.”