Two months after Yellow declared bankruptcy and laid off its more than 30,000 workers, the freight trucking companys former workers are still struggling to find work. Yellow declared bankruptcy in August after more than a decade of poor management and extensive debt, totaling almost $1.6 billion.
Chris Dowdey, a Yellow truck driver who eventually found work as a driver for the grocery store chain Kroger, was told by two separate companies If you had not worked for Yellow, I would hire you tomorrow according to the website Marketplace. He had spent a month out of work and more than that without a payc…
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