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<blockquote data-quote="White Line" data-source="post: 1285656" data-attributes="member: 52233"><p>Yeah especially the 1700 former employees that lost their jobs after the FedEx National LTL fiasco, what a mess that was, FedEx bought Watkins for $780 million, it becomes National LTL, Chip and Clay Watkins stayed on to run National LTL for FedEx but both left within a year of the take over for what was said personal reasons ( they were non FedEx conformist perhaps?), they both head back to Atlanta to take up positions in the families other trucking empire there that is now $780 million richer from the sell of their LTL division, Watkins had used contractors for a lot of the P&D and some of the line haul,(Ground contractors take note of this) they were eliminated by National LTL soon after the take over, and company equipment and company drivers were implemented shortly after that, but apparently National LTL just wasn't working out, it was decided that it should be merged into FedEx Freight East and West, leading to 100 facilities closed and 1700 employees let go.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="White Line, post: 1285656, member: 52233"] Yeah especially the 1700 former employees that lost their jobs after the FedEx National LTL fiasco, what a mess that was, FedEx bought Watkins for $780 million, it becomes National LTL, Chip and Clay Watkins stayed on to run National LTL for FedEx but both left within a year of the take over for what was said personal reasons ( they were non FedEx conformist perhaps?), they both head back to Atlanta to take up positions in the families other trucking empire there that is now $780 million richer from the sell of their LTL division, Watkins had used contractors for a lot of the P&D and some of the line haul,(Ground contractors take note of this) they were eliminated by National LTL soon after the take over, and company equipment and company drivers were implemented shortly after that, but apparently National LTL just wasn't working out, it was decided that it should be merged into FedEx Freight East and West, leading to 100 facilities closed and 1700 employees let go. [/QUOTE]
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