This is an extremely excellent video for over the road drivers thinking about finally making the right steps and changing to LTL freight, to understand the LTL world! 💯😎👍
Thanks for the upload.. I grew up near CF Milwaukee near the airport, I could name 6 guys (older brothers and dads of my neighborhood friends) who worked there, mostly dockworkers. I ended up becoming a truck driver too and met many more guys who worked at CF over the years. All solid guys. Now it's a Old Dominion terminal. One thing is certain in the freight industry, the more things change, the more they stay the same...
I think the demise of Consolidated Freightways was a managemant plan started when they began Con-Way back in the 90's. I bet Leland James is turning in his grave! R.I.P Leland! R.I.P CF!
When I first started trucking in 2000-01, I remember seeing these old “Corn Flakes” trucks and trailers. The company I was working for at the time bought several retired CF Freightliner Century Class units. I think they were in 1997-99 years, so they were early Century units.
The truck travels farther than the driver with a relay. When CF was around I had no idea there were relay drivers along the way. I found this interesting & too learned something new.
I swear, I'm the only one at my Yellow terminal to pull a dockplate like a CF dock worker. My pops taught me that, because he worked there 12 years before they went under. Knowing him, he would have loved to have worked there until he reached retirement age, but that wasn't the case in the end.
My father worked out of their Columbus terminal driving line haul & dedicated for 38 years. They started the non-union company Con-Way...funneled all the best freight to them and basically starved CF into bankruptcy, then closed in 2001 on Labor day. Dirtiest dick move in recent history.
Road system made trailers and dollys.... work for an ltl outfit that still has some of their equipment. Over 6 million miles on it. They built it to last back then.
I remember when CF went out trucks and trailers were abandoned all over the place along truck stops, rest areas, all along the New York State thruway and ccx at local businesses. It took months for the NYS DOT to corral all the trucks and trailers to storage lots. Even today a few trucks and trailers sit in Syracuse, NY at the state fairgrounds used for storage.
I had a short stint with them on the extra board back in the early 90s I really liked it I just could not afford to keep playing the on call game it would good for a few weeks then their be nothing for a week or two but I considered that job a sacred privilege
CF ( & Conway too ) had air starters on all line tractors until the late 1990's. Viking Freight System had air starters on all power, including city tractors, for many years. I recall GI Trucking used them too.
@@georgeandrews6454 🇺🇸 I’m thinking it was Cook Motor Freight back in the day that had air starters. I heard my first one and had a grin from ear to ear. It must’ve been on a GMC rig I think. I was about 6 years old or so. I was so fascinated with trucks at an early age. A friend has a CF rig and he thought it would really freak me out when he started it up, but it didn’t take me long to figure it out, even before he cranked it. 😳
Any particular reason so many of the CF Freightliners had just single round headlights instead of square quad lights like they'd normally have? I've still never seen that on any Freightliners in my life except for former CF trucks.
Did you miss that they had to so spend all but 2 weeks worth of that money to meet expenses? Forget where was it in 2002, that money was probably gone by 88. Nearly all that money was spent on trucks, fuel, wages, taxes, and maintenance.
Anyone else wish they had one of the light up CF logos from the air dam ? Also with that low of profit margin I can see why they went bankrupt. The Con Way split off didn't help any but looks like they were in trouble before then. Sadly many of the shippers in Bloomington aren't there anymore either. Some day a container ship is going to come over from China and no one over here will have enough credit to pay for it.
Many CF tractors " stayed with the set " from origin terminal to destination terminal , so the drivers had to " Slip - Sheet " from one cab to another at the turn - around meet point. Triples tractors ( with the " wing tips " - white front bumper edges ) would return to Nevada & Utah from turn points located right on the state lines ( Whiskey Pete's for Las Vegas ). CF Triples tractors had a few extra ponies under the cab.
i wonder if they went out of business because of a contributing factor or from that bad accident they had in wisconsin where five guys got killed when their truck crossed over in the southbound lane on 41 and killed them ?
Maybe if while they were driving I80 if they'd stopped in Rock Springs...you know on the way to Provo Utah...they could have saved some reship money. Learn to pack the trucks via destination you are passing. Oh wait, CF went outta business a while back...I can see why. Used to see em all the time in WY as a kid.
Bad management and double breasting took down Corn Flake. I had many friends at CF and some saw the handwriting on the wall and came over to Roadway where I was at, just before they shut down.
@@okeanakidd5118 Roadway did have non union trucking companies in their portfolio but they weren't double breathing. Roadways big thing back k in those days was trying to increase the percentage of freight shipped by rail.
The main problem I have is the video editing error when the driver actually sets the brakes and then starts driving. Pulling out engages the brakes and pushing them in releases them.
This almost feels like a a propaganda film made by people that are going to bleed the company dry over the coming years and this video is being made so they can point out that it's not their fault because "Muh Expenses"
🧐 all that bull shit for them to just shut there doors !! They needed a better accountant Pretty sad there all snakes when it’s all said n done Greed is the keyword
@@SoapinTrucker sorry Mike I didn’t mean to Insult you or anyone. This type of truck driving is very tough especially for the dock workers that are on the dock in extreme heat and extreme cold. That’s all I was referring to. It’s just not for me, im a lazy millennial.
@@Kenspiricy lol 🤣 well at least you're honest, and also by the way I worked for Conway or cwx back in the day before it became XPO and I worked 6 years in Phoenix doing p&d and dock work, and 6 years doing dock work in Pasco washington, so I went from extreme heat to really cold but I had a blast it both places honestly, so I can relate to what you're saying but by the same token it was some damn good pay and they treated me pretty good when I wasn't screwing up I can't complain if anything went wrong it was usually my fault! 😂
@@SoapinTrucker that’s good to hear... I wish to have a career as long as that! I know it was not easy! Haha I bet you have some great stories to tell from those past companies haha
Not for all folks, but it put food on the table, a roof over our heads, great medical - no cost to me, a pension that I'm collecting today. And I enjoyed the job.
I would love to see those Christmas colored CF logo come down the road one more time as a parade!!
God bless you drivers past and present without you this country would not function !!! ❤
This is an extremely excellent video for over the road drivers thinking about finally making the right steps and changing to LTL freight, to understand the LTL world! 💯😎👍
Thanks for the upload.. I grew up near CF Milwaukee near the airport, I could name 6 guys (older brothers and dads of my neighborhood friends) who worked there, mostly dockworkers. I ended up becoming a truck driver too and met many more guys who worked at CF over the years. All solid guys. Now it's a Old Dominion terminal. One thing is certain in the freight industry, the more things change, the more they stay the same...
I think the demise of Consolidated Freightways was a managemant plan started when they began Con-Way back in the 90's. I bet Leland James is turning in his grave! R.I.P Leland! R.I.P CF!
Course they wanted to break up the union like many companies
Absolutely, Con-Way was started to bust the union!
alot of it was corporate greed.
When I first started trucking in 2000-01, I remember seeing these old “Corn Flakes” trucks and trailers. The company I was working for at the time bought several retired CF Freightliner Century Class units. I think they were in 1997-99 years, so they were early Century units.
The truck travels farther than the driver with a relay. When CF was around I had no idea there were relay drivers along the way. I found this interesting & too learned something new.
There’s a lesson to be learned in there , watch who you hire at the top !
When we went on strike 1993 it was to link up the Conway companies how many times did CF change it's name I made more money with CF than I do now
Good ol air start, remember it well.
I'm a huge Fan of CF!! thank you so much for uploading this
April 1929 - September 2002; 73 years.
I swear, I'm the only one at my Yellow terminal to pull a dockplate like a CF dock worker. My pops taught me that, because he worked there 12 years before they went under. Knowing him, he would have loved to have worked there until he reached retirement age, but that wasn't the case in the end.
My father worked out of their Columbus terminal driving line haul & dedicated for 38 years. They started the non-union company Con-Way...funneled all the best freight to them and basically starved CF into bankruptcy, then closed in 2001 on Labor day. Dirtiest dick move in recent history.
It was actually 2002
My uncle Jack back in 2001 jumped the gate and aired up the air start truck and drove off with one tractor and 6 trailers And 6 doilies 😊
Consolidated Freightways even owned their own trailer manufacturing company! It was called Road Fleet.
Road systems.
They had their own truck manufacturing company called Freightliner until they sold it do Daimler Benz.
Road system made trailers and dollys.... work for an ltl outfit that still has some of their equipment. Over 6 million miles on it. They built it to last back then.
This is good. So many people don't understand trucks are expensive to operate
LongLive Consolidated Freightways I miss seeing these Trucks almost everywhere you turn
Me too. Grew up in The Bay Area, and saw them everywhere.
I remember seeing these in the 80s as a kid going up Cajon pass in California
He spent $96.00 on groceries a week back then. Dam!
I was spending under $30.00 just o keep myself from starving. He was living like a king back then.
Great video!
Excellent Video Sir.
Good breakdown of costs.
Thank you for posting!
I remember when CF went out trucks and trailers were abandoned all over the place along truck stops, rest areas, all along the New York State thruway and ccx at local businesses. It took months for the NYS DOT to corral all the trucks and trailers to storage lots. Even today a few trucks and trailers sit in Syracuse, NY at the state fairgrounds used for storage.
I had a short stint with them on the extra board back in the early 90s I really liked it I just could not afford to keep playing the on call game it would good for a few weeks then their be nothing for a week or two but I considered that job a sacred privilege
I sure miss hearing those air starters !
I almost drove team for them out of Rio Linda prior to them closing, those days the rigs had power( Caterpillar ) but no comfort at all !
No air ride, no power steering! The good ol' days.
And no A/C. In the winter defrosters didn't work a darn. Your feet would sweat the top half froze. The good old days!
Don't forget the air starters with the leaking tanks I drove for the 11 years till the closed the doors best job I ever had
@@astroboy5137 the only air condition ones were the sleeper teams with those cabover freight shakers
Great video
I heard the air starter on these big rigs. Did all the CF trucks have air starters? What a sound!!
Roadwaydid too!
Yup. Happens every time you off loaded a load of Beans!😨😰😱😳
CF ( & Conway too ) had air starters on all line tractors until the late 1990's. Viking Freight System had air starters on all power, including city tractors, for many years. I recall GI Trucking used them too.
@@georgeandrews6454 🇺🇸 I’m thinking it was Cook Motor Freight back in the day that had air starters. I heard my first one and had a grin from ear to ear. It must’ve been on a GMC rig I think. I was about 6 years old or so. I was so fascinated with trucks at an early age. A friend has a CF rig and he thought it would really freak me out when he started it up, but it didn’t take me long to figure it out, even before he cranked it. 😳
Ruan had air starts. If no air u had to hook gladhand from another unit. Anyway they could be engaged while rolling. Scared many a cow
Love to see them on the Roads again 😎
I remember the freightliner cabovers when they were running 903 Cummins engines and the spicer 6 speed's
CF may have been getting residual royalties for the Freightliner name and patents, even after it was sold!
He set the brakes before driving away...
I saw that too
Firend of mine has worked for CF. Too bad that they doesn't exist anymore
Jimmy Hoffa would be proud sticking it to the man
Any particular reason so many of the CF Freightliners had just single round headlights instead of square quad lights like they'd normally have? I've still never seen that on any Freightliners in my life except for former CF trucks.
Cheaper to equip each truck with 2 headlights rather than 4 would be my guess.
is this company around any more? or did slip and fall enthusiasts crack the safe at the beginning of the video?
He starts by saying 1987 and ALL THAT MONEY. So where did all that money go in 15yrs? Labor Day 2002 C.F. was done,caput,finished
And let us not forget this is after they were spun off debt free!!!!!!!!
Did you miss that they had to so spend all but 2 weeks worth of that money to meet expenses?
Forget where was it in 2002, that money was probably gone by 88.
Nearly all that money was spent on trucks, fuel, wages, taxes, and maintenance.
Anyone else wish they had one of the light up CF logos from the air dam ?
Also with that low of profit margin I can see why they went bankrupt.
The Con Way split off didn't help any but looks like they were in trouble before then.
Sadly many of the shippers in Bloomington aren't there anymore either.
Some day a container ship is going to come over from China and no one over here will have enough credit to pay for it.
Did the line haul units make the entire trip, or did they return to the original yard?
Many CF tractors " stayed with the set " from origin terminal to destination terminal , so the drivers had to " Slip - Sheet " from one cab to another at the turn - around meet point. Triples tractors ( with the " wing tips " - white front bumper edges ) would return to Nevada & Utah from turn points located right on the state lines ( Whiskey Pete's for Las Vegas ). CF Triples tractors had a few extra ponies under the cab.
Miss CF. Worked at charlotte nc.
It was inevitable they'd go bankrupt after seeing this.
I want to know more about the cat at 2:41.
@ 2:01... he sets the brakes... then takes off... wtf???
I caught that
Tug test
@@bendover9411 “tug test” with the tractor breaks?
Tha was the old sistem brakes
Wow, no wonder CF went broke
What was this video suppose to be for? Was it there reason to not give the drivers a raise or something?
Whats up with those low mounted angled upward mirrors they used at CF?
It was thought to eliminate blind spots.
@@jaykosnakogaming3895 hello. they were blind spot mirrors. and they worked well.
they were blind spot mirrors
Push to release.
Pull to lock.
All the good jobs that were lost, so damn infuriating what has happened to the country!
i wonder if they went out of business because of a contributing factor or from that bad accident they had in wisconsin where five guys got killed when their truck crossed over in the southbound lane on 41 and killed them ?
Maybe if while they were driving I80 if they'd stopped in Rock Springs...you know on the way to Provo Utah...they could have saved some reship money. Learn to pack the trucks via destination you are passing. Oh wait, CF went outta business a while back...I can see why. Used to see em all the time in WY as a kid.
How much did they guy in the video make in the making of this video??
No wonder they went out of business. Those margins are razor thin.
I miss Gary Dean and Bill
Now through mergers and acquisitions, it has become XPO LTL freight, and their parent company as trying to get rid of them too.
Needed to charge more!
What year was this?
I seem to remember this being before the holding company spun off CF early to mid 1990s.
Worked for yellow freight 29 years retired june 2021 at 55 all they did was piss money away
The sales guys with their expense accounts to take the customer to the strip clubs. Lol!
Wander why they went under
That leaves $96, which I’ll just slip into my coat pocket. Goodbye.
yeah apparently it was impossible
How much were drivers making?? Teamsters right??
Apparently too much cause it's all gone now lol
Bad management and double breasting took down Corn Flake. I had many friends at CF and some saw the handwriting on the wall and came over to Roadway where I was at, just before they shut down.
@@IsoNurFace but they did the same thing !!!!!
@@okeanakidd5118 Roadway did have non union trucking companies in their portfolio but they weren't double breathing. Roadways big thing back k in those days was trying to increase the percentage of freight shipped by rail.
@@IsoNurFace yes i remember it pissed me off seeing roadway trailers on a train lol
03:22 ...Rock Springs loves their beer nuts...It's probably cocaine tbh... ...1987...
they sure left with bankroll and screw their drivers who was with them for years
That forklift operator was checking out the cameraman’s bulge at the first distribution center. Nasty
The main problem I have is the video editing error when the driver actually sets the brakes and then starts driving. Pulling out engages the brakes and pushing them in releases them.
Amazing they soon would be called CON-WAY freight, CON-WAY THEN WENT TO ABUSE ITS DRIVERS, and onto XPO Logistics.
@WhyMe Lord I was a linehaul driver back in 2017 for them awful company I ended up getting a check from a lawyer for back pay they where sued for
My dad drove for Conway freight before he passed away and wasn’t really a bad company. XPO on a other hand is a bad company.
Go Cornflake!......GO!
"CornFlakes" All that for $96??
10:23 bumping the front tire?
neckarsulme He had checked all tires, counterclockwise direction. That was his 18th to check. Memphis, TN 1988-2002
neckarsulme That was his 18th tire to check after beginning and continuing in a counterclockwise direction.
Memphis, TN 1988-2002
While you are there doing Your visual inspection, You might as well bump the tire.
How to go bankrupt earning 6 million a day.
50 weeks run in the red to run red 2 weeks of every year is why they’re no longer around.
They just give all their strategies to the competition that's 😂
high and tight ,... ROADWAY moto
Sets the brakes AFTER starting the truck?! And then starts to drive? Who was the idiot who edited this?
Coulda hauled that lol stuff with a pick-up truck
hot shots do it now or at least they think..
6 mill per day,and they went outa business
Too much overhead
falling flags
This almost feels like a a propaganda film made by people that are going to bleed the company dry over the coming years and this video is being made so they can point out that it's not their fault because "Muh Expenses"
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I totally agree!
The company still did the employees wrong totally wrong
How to go broke making 6 million a day.
🧐 all that bull shit for them to just shut there doors !!
They needed a better accountant
Pretty sad there all snakes when it’s all said n done
Greed is the keyword
2 many suits ,that's what ruined cf
$96 after all that slave labor? Yeah sounds about right lol
Slave labor?!?!?!!!?? You want to try again Teamster????????
@@Kenspiricy don't even try fool, my dad drove for CF for 29 years, I know all about it, it's not slave labor at all!!!!!!!!
@@SoapinTrucker sorry Mike I didn’t mean to Insult you or anyone. This type of truck driving is very tough especially for the dock workers that are on the dock in extreme heat and extreme cold. That’s all I was referring to. It’s just not for me, im a lazy millennial.
@@Kenspiricy lol 🤣 well at least you're honest, and also by the way I worked for Conway or cwx back in the day before it became XPO and I worked 6 years in Phoenix doing p&d and dock work, and 6 years doing dock work in Pasco washington, so I went from extreme heat to really cold but I had a blast it both places honestly, so I can relate to what you're saying but by the same token it was some damn good pay and they treated me pretty good when I wasn't screwing up I can't complain if anything went wrong it was usually my fault! 😂
@@SoapinTrucker that’s good to hear... I wish to have a career as long as that! I know it was not easy! Haha I bet you have some great stories to tell from those past companies haha
Ltl freight the worst kind of truck driving job.
Not for all folks, but it put food on the table, a roof over our heads, great medical - no cost to me, a pension that I'm collecting today. And I enjoyed the job.
@@jimmyb4801 Amen, Brother! Teamster Local 63!
LTL has best pay and more home time.