Trucking company 10 Roads Express has laid off 66 workers at its facility in Fort Worth, Texas, citing the cancellation of postal contracts.
The layoffs, which occurred Oct. 16, affected 55 truck drivers, four dispatchers and seven mechanics, according to a recent filing with the Texas Workforce Commission.
“The company gave affected employees as much notice as is practicable due to the unforeseen cancellation and non-renewal of various postal contracts,” officials for 10 Roads Express said in a statement.
Carter Lake, Iowa-based 10 Roads Express employs over 3,300 truck drivers and owns more than 4,400 trucks, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
10 Roads Express was the second-largest contractor with the Postal Service in the 2022 fiscal year, according to a list of top Postal Service vendors from Culhane Meadows, a law firm that specializes in government contracting work. In 2022 alone, the Postal Service awarded more than $700.4 million in contracts to 10 Roads Express.
FreightWaves has reported that under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the Postal Service has diverted some of its over-the-road freight spending from its longtime trucking partners into the freight brokerage market.
Last week, drivers at three 10 Roads Express terminals in Iowa and Nebraska voted to join the Teamsters, the union announced. Since the beginning of 2022, drivers at eight 10 Roads Express locations have unionized with the American Postal Workers Union.
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Dena Jernigan
This article is a partial lie, as a driver for Pat Salmon then 10Roads we were Not given a notice that the contracts were being lost…the postal workers in Fort Worth Texas were the ones that informed us.
wesley
I work for 10 roads. I’m on the few that survived the layoff in Fort Worth. I hope I keep surviving. I like it here. I am home everyday. And I’m off 3 days a week. The Fort Worth Post Office has been total chaos since the change. There were days when 40 to 50 post offices did not get their mail picked up. And days were almost that many did not receive their mail. The people that won these contracts Rider rental and blue Grace were totally unprepared. I know one terminal that received five truck loads per day in a regular season. The contractor was unaware there was more than one load until the day he took over the contract. They had no drivers. It’s been weeks. I asked expediters periodically is it getting better yet. They always tell me no.
Dave
Bob is spot on
Dave
10 roads express bought out BECO INC who I worked for 17 years SLC to Sinclair Wy last 6 ran pretty smooth. Home every night 3day weekends.Within 3 mos they changed the run 4 times. Last change SLC-DEN relay driver Den-SLC they spent about $300 in motel bills a day instead of us sleeping in our own bed Poor management is an understatement. Fricken Left hand doesn’t know what the Left hand is doing
Bob
10 roads is pathetic, no respect for drivers, crappy managers in the midwest, lack of proper communication, the postal workers are disrespectful always pissed off about something. 10 roads will lose their asses if they can’t get their act together!
Sean
If management had done things right for the workers in the first place there never would have been a need for unions. This applies to all companies ñot just trucking.
Corporate America has been screwing workers and consumers for years. High prices low wages and or higher prices less product.
Victor
Good. Some of the most dangerous drivers on the road.
union scam
10 roads will go bankrupt if everyone joins the union