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Bankrupt Celadon Receives $14.5 Million Bid For Taylor Express
Monday, January 20, 2020 - 10:07am | 436Read More...Bankrupt Celadon Group Inc. has received a $14.5 million bid from White Willow Holdings to acquire its North Carolina-based subsidiary Taylor Express Inc. White Willow of Newfields, New Hampshire, is backed by Luminus Management LLC, a New York investment firm that tried to help Celadon...
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Celadon Doubles Down On Hyndman Liquidation As Canadian Court Fight Looms
Friday, January 17, 2020 - 6:18pm | 474Read More...Celadon Group plans to sell Hyndman Transport's Winnipeg terminal for C$4.25 million to a commercial real estate firm, but the deal likely faces resistance from a Canadian court over the company's failure to initiate timely bankruptcy proceedings in Canada. The deal emerged in public filings in...
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Judge Puts Brakes On Celadon's Hyndman Asset Sales, Swift Exit From Canada
Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 10:30am | 604Read More...A Canadian judge had a simple message Wednesday for Celadon Group as it prepared to sell off the headquarters of its shuttered Ontario trucking company: not so fast. Ontario Superior Court Justice Glenn Hainey, in a brief preliminary ruling, said Celadon cannot sell its Hyndman Transport assets...
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Former Hyndman Employees Seek To Block Sale Of Celadon's Canadian Properties
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 11:34am | 350Read More...Former employees of Hyndman Transport who say they are owed more than C$2 million will begin legal action Wednesday to disrupt U.S. owner Celadon's efforts to sell off its Canadian assets as part of U.S. bankruptcy proceedings, FreightWaves has learned. Andrew J. Hatnay, a Toronto labor lawyer...
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Celadon Moves Quickly To Sell Hyndman Transport Headquarters In Canada
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 3:10pm | 435Read More...Celadon Group plans to sell Hyndman Transport's headquarters to a Canadian real estate firm for C$12 million after a U.S. federal judge approved the bankrupt trucking company's request to fast-track the deal on Monday. The sale appears set to close imminently, after Guelph-based Wyndham Street...
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The Final What The Truck?!?…Of The Decade
Tuesday, December 31, 2019 - 9:45am | 248Read More...On the last episode of 2019 Dooner and Chad are wrapping up this year in freight. They've got all the latest headlines including news on the Drug and Alcohol Clearing House, Mexican meth making a border run, Celadon wants bankruptcy recognized in Canada, we pick the top stories of the year, Kevin...
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Feds Investigate Dismissals At Celadon's Canadian Carrier
Thursday, December 26, 2019 - 9:41am | 430Read More...Canadian federal authorities are investigating the dismissal of Celadon's Hyndman Transport workers, who could be entitled to a large payout depending on the outcome. Employment and Social Development Canada is conducting a group termination investigation in connection with the Dec. 9 shutdown and...
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Celadon Leaves Former Drivers Hanging Without Bankruptcy Filing In Canada
Tuesday, December 24, 2019 - 10:25am | 820Read More...Barb Taylor, 56, has a reminder for anyone sent to repossess her black International LoneStar truck — the one with the giant pink ribbon decal. "That's my truck," said Taylor, who has lived six years after her breast cancer returned as stage 4. Doctors expected her to live for just two. "Owning...
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Canadian Lawmaker Criticizes Celadon's Handling Of Hyndman Closure
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 - 9:53am | 456Read More...A Canadian lawmaker criticized Celadon Group's abrupt closure of Hyndman Transport, calling it a "footnote in their thought process." Byran May, a Liberal federal member of Parliament whose Ontario district includes Hyndman, told FreightWaves he found the reports of drivers being stranded and the...
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Celadon Shutdown Was A Product Of Two Freight Recessions
Monday, December 16, 2019 - 12:16pm | 967Read More...Chart of the Week: 3-Year-Old Used Truck Prices – USA, Cass Freight Shipments Index – USA SONAR: UT3.USA, CFIS.USA At this point the news and story of Celadon, the largest trucking failure in history has been covered extensively in the media. The 3,000+ trucking company was by far the largest to...
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WTT?!? The Celadon Fallout One Week In, And What's On The Radar Right Now
Monday, December 16, 2019 - 11:15am | 537Read More...On this weekend's What the Truck?!? we hit the ground running with the latest on Celadon exactly one week after FreightWaves first broke the news. We also give you the latest on what has been dubbed a "peaceful protest" at one of their subsidiaries in Mexico, Jaguar Transportation. We provide an...
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Postmortem On Celadon, Dogs In The Cab, Trade Deals, More – WTT?!?
Friday, December 13, 2019 - 4:30pm | 193Read More...On today's episode Dooner and Chad continue their coverage on Celadon, talk about the new trade deal, a shooting at Dart, we talk to Craig Bliss about the importance of social media during carrier shutdowns, Mike Caney knows what's On The Radar, FreightWaves HR helps displaced workers get a job,...
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Frustrated Employees Of Celadon's Mexico Carrier Continue Nuevo Laredo Standoff
Friday, December 13, 2019 - 11:40am | 507Read More...Employees of Mexican carrier Jaguar Transportation — a subsidiary of bankrupt Celadon Group — continue to protest unpaid wages by blocking the company's Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, terminal in order to delay the removal of trucks, according to reports. "In Nuevo Laredo, hundreds — of personnel who...
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Buffett's Rare Miss With Kraft Heinz – Great Quarter, Guys
Friday, December 13, 2019 - 11:38am | 213Read More...On this episode of Great Quarter, Guys, Seth Holm, Kevin Hill and Andrew Cox break down Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC), discuss Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) initiating on the trucking sector, Celadon's fraud leading to bankruptcy, trucking supply and demand and more. Listen to more FreightWaves...
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Former Celadon Employees, Drivers Describe Chaos After Abrupt Bankruptcy Filing
Friday, December 13, 2019 - 9:54am | 976Read More...Days after thousands of employees and truck drivers for Celadon Group Inc. received word that one of North America's largest carriers was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, many are still struggling to take in the news. While rumors were swirling on social media that the carrier was in...
















