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
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:(!
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
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
Interesting. If you search Lou Tomososki, even on TH-cam, 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!
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 !!!
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
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'.
@@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!
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.
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
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!
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
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 !!
I guess you didnt work in ct or ma Cf treated people like shit. To bad when i started with them i was proud to work there that didmt last long, the more you did for them the more they stuck it to you.to bad they had a lot of history. In the end your just a number bad management. I had 19 years and quit along with many others they could not keep good help
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
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.
NYVET , live long enough, and you’ll see your family will screw you the same way.
@@inspiredwoodworks4131 especially when it comes to money.
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.
Interesting take. I remember when they closed......was a shocker.
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".
My dad drove for CF back in the early 60's for a few yrs when I was a kid , so sad to see company's that has been in business for yrs go under...!!!
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
Yep I know a guy that worked there when that happen smh
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.
That day was labor freaking day ! A giant f-u to the company and these poor morons
Thats the way it was done in trucking back in the day.
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.
lol, why would you be so loyal as to not drive for anyone else but CF? Companies come and go
They were such a great company they did not even give us any warning, just shut the doors and told us not to bother showing back up for work...
yes, a really good company....
CF mgt & the unions totally SCREWED the employees.
It was horrible people dont know the history
Mark Prieur what happened wish i was around back then driving instead of now it seems like there was more respect and knowledge being spread back then
@@michaelmedina8304 -- more respect shortly after this they locked the gates forever on labor day none the less
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 work for CF when They shut the doors on us . We had to call a number to tell us are job was gone.
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.
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:(!
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
Driver Lou must have felt like a real tool shortly after this was made.
About 10 years later, yup
they closed their door like 2001 2002 ? like overnite
August 8th 2005 UPS got Motor Cargo and Overnite. September 2nd 2002 Consolidated Freightways went out.
@@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
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.
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.
Man, I feel bad all those employees. I was thinking while watching this holy shit they have no clue what’s coming shortly. Terrible.
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.
Corn Flake! I remember them in the 90’s. Nothing lasts forever!
Loved my career with CF!
Makes me sad that they lost business just a few years later. I even have a model of one of their old trucks on my shelf.
"Giving a gift to the company"...I wonder if Lou would buy CF another gift?
Driver Lou got played like a Stradivarius.
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.
Big CF, I was one of the chosen few 1986 to 1990. Than moved over to USF Holland, thanks for posting this video.
Longtime USF Reddaway here.
Hoping the USF companies will be around a long time, Retired last year, not by choice, but for health reasons, Good luck to you Teamster Brother.
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
Retired from holland in 2013. Had 23 years there. Was a great company til yellow got hold of them. Now they suck like the rest.
" I would like to say that this truck will represent the strength and health of the company for about 10 years or so"
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.
Probably running in China now.
I remember loading this truck one time at the Tyler,TX terminal.
I hooked them as a set at CGI a coupla' times
Did you take a fat shit behind a pallet before sending it off on the route🤣
I was dispatched to Drive C.F. one from SLC TO CHY but that was Changed at the last minute.
M.H.
How sad that all those employees got shafted just a few short years later, can you say
CON-WAY?
I thought the same thing a buddy of mine worked there when that happened I remember it to well
And con-way has become xpo logistics
Deregulation ! may have contributed to many of the failings of these truck lines .
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.
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
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 never realized that this all took place in Oregon! That's awesome!
I remember CF driving through the Inland empire California in the 90s as a kid as well as Sunkist Orange's
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.
Damn them cat engines look nice brand new man
6:49: No wonder they went out of business with dweebs like this in management.
I wonder how these people feel about CF now?
Good question
And last year Celadon went under which I'm sure they (employees) got screwed too. Sad, just sad things like this happen.
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.
Dammit, i left my cooler in the breakroom
No worries,I have it now.
Nice paint job and pictures on the truck!
To bad they went under every one who worked at cf sead it was best co to drive for sad that managment wasent as good as drivers
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
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.
Least not we forget that Bill Clinton gave us NAFTA.
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...
you got that rite bro.
Interesting. If you search Lou Tomososki, even on TH-cam, 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!
Re watch Donald Moffit's speech. He seems like a real toad and looks and speaks like a toad also.
What was the model of it because it reminds me of the FLD 120 But with single headlights???
I'd like to know what happened to this fool when management locked the gates forever on labor day
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 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 ?
DVD? Do they even make them anymore? Just download it
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.
Thanks for posting this.
I haven't seen any pinto freight trucking commercials.
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
tiny1309 so the employees paid for that truck and trailer why didnt the company pay for that shit
The union shafted them idiot
What do you expect when you can't survive anymore what would you do as company president? Something always comes to an abrupt halt!
I wonder if Mr Moffett the guy he thanks in the video has something to do with the Moffett on the back of trucks today? ( The Forklift)
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.
And to further show their gratitude right back, they screwed over everyone who worked for CF and shut the doors and padlocked the gates.
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.
He looks like Dale Gribble
Lol
Isn't he?
U insult dale
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
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 !!!
When they started nonunion branches of CCX and the like. The handwriting was on the wall.
Good looking rig!
What ever happened to that tractor and those two trailers?
Good
Question.
Scrap yard!
Eric Dee How do you know that? Could be in the woods somewhere like a lot of these Oldschool trucks and trailers...
I've been wondering the same of this beautiful truck & trailers.
Clean uniforms etc. No flip flops nor ass cracks showing.
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
Steven McGregor it’s not even a truck to companies. It’s a power unit
So where is this truck now?
In Mexico
I bet if they knew the co would crap on them the cf one would never took place cf crop greed put them under
i drove a conway fld with the same wonky single round lights
Was it geared for 55 ?
Hmmph. CF said that they valued their employees. Really!?
Hows it working out for you now??? Former Teamster 162 member, but a long time friend of Local 81.
Great video! Thanks for taking the time to make it!
Con-way scabs.....
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'.
My grandpa was CEO of that company for almost 10 years. So sad that they're gone.
Remember, P.I.E.,Transcon,SYSTEM 99,O.N.C.,LEEWAY, AND MANY OTHER GOOD ONES.......GONE.SAD.
@@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!
If your grandpa was Pat Blake....he's a piece of shit. He did this on purpose. F him.
Fast forward to 1996 then 2002.
So they help make first single axle sleeper truck??
Corp greed. Deregulation
I wonder where this is today.......
Those trailers and truck are probably in some farm field on the side of the highway.. all faded
the company gave the employees the shaft in the end!
Was Gearld Detter still at CF then does anyone know ?
This the only single rear axle truck with a sleeper ever made?
mrtippyman A lot of single drive axels with sleepers were made but most were cabovers.
Now there are a lot of the XPO, UPS, etc have them I see them everyday.
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.
Are ya blind? Lol
When will They ever go back into business.
Conway now xpo Union busting greed
Jimmmy Hoffa knows were cf one and the trailers are. Ask him.
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
And that was yesterday.. and yesterday's gone!
Thanks for nothing again.. Teamster's Union
Where this truck now?
check the yard at ups JFK big artie miller had an old cnf tractor I believe it still runs. wasn't Emery Worldwide in partnership with CNF.
Good ole days
And then they were gone.
Few years later laid off without a notice
If CF was so great where are they now?
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!
Where is CF1 at now :(?
Dead like America
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
Thought same thing.They were too cheap to use the 4 light bezel
E Meyer plus you need that back window do effectively position a converter dolly, I mean you can use your mirrors but a day cab is key for Line Haul
Lots of LTL companies run teams in sleepers to keep time critical freight moving.
ryuuou07 these guys where returning home every night from a regional run😂😂😂
Company cheerleader. Dudes a horrible teamster 🤦♂️
Was deregulation of rates the main culprit in killing this once great company?Sure seemed to run a tight ship.
NO---it was strictly to get rid of the union.
@@r.b.holmes2779:Wow,no wonder I don't see these names out on the road anymore.😢
Nope, the union killed this company
@@marshallearp123 Conway
@@marshallearp123 swift is hiring they are non union go get some
did the employees get their money back?
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 !!
To bad the people dident know they were losing their job few month latter .
I actually own CF1 and have it stored away
Sure you do, buddy, sure you do.
I guess you didnt work in ct or ma
Cf treated people like shit. To bad when i started with them i was proud to work there that didmt last long, the more you did for them the more they stuck it to you.to bad they had a lot of history. In the end your just a number bad management. I had 19 years and quit along with many others they could not keep good help
CF one 002 killed by CF two 002.
Yeah I bet you're all real proud now huh they really screwed you good ol Union companies
Not a union man. How much did c.f. pay you under the table for this?
Mister farmer you would have got more satisfaction in the end by milking your cows
They shut the doors on my dad!
Screw Them!
That was stupid!