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Almost 70 employees, including 61 truck drivers, got just three days’ notice that Black Horse Carriers Inc. was permanently shuttering its terminal in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday.
The closure is in response to a customer’s decision to “discontinue business” with the carrier at its Pewaukee location, Nancy Brooks, director of human resources for the company, stated in its notice to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development on Friday.
According to Wisconsin’s Business Closing and Mass Layoff Law (WBCML), in some cases employers with more than 50 employees must provide written notice 60 calendar days in advance of a business closing or mass layoff or reduction in hours.
However, Black Horse Carriers may have been exempted under a portion of the law about exceptions, including “unforeseeable business circumstances.”
Headquartered in Carol Stream, Illinois, Black Horse Carriers is one of the nation’s largest dedicated fleet providers, with around 3,140 company drivers and 2,490 power units, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s SAFER website.
The company, which operates more than 80 terminals throughout the U.S., hauls foods including bakery and dairy products and other perishables, retail and consumer goods, and automotive and industrial freight, according to its website.
Brooks didn’t disclose which customer canceled its contract with Black Horse, leading to the abrupt closing of one of the carrier’s five Wisconsin terminals.
She states in the notice that the privately held carrier “will ensure that employees will be paid all earned wages and agreed upon benefits at the time of their termination.”
This is a developing story.
Pamela J Polyak
Kroger will do that to people…Did it to us. They will do it again.
Duke Strathmann
(Amazon)
Pamela J Polyak
Nope. Kroger.
Theresa Everett
My heart goes out to all the employees!!
TMC Transportation is hiring in many of our offices and flatbed drivers. Please reach out to me at Theresa.everett@tmctrans.com, 515-237-7953 or visit our website http://www.tmctrans.com/go to careers at top/scroll down to what you would be interested in doing at our company.
TMC hired many Celadon employees after there big shutdown, we are willing to help these employees also.
If you are interested in sales, especially in the Madison, WI area, please reach out to me 515-237-7953.
My hope is every employee finds a job soon.
Theresa Everett
TMC Transportation
HR
Ricky sturgill
Americans out, foreigners in is the destruction in the trucking industry. We can’t compete wit government subsidized business in any industry. Big freight brokers like CH Robinson and others have let greed over take the blood that used to flow through there veins and pay out unprofitable rates . And using government subsidized foreigners to get it hauled is the tragedy that we face today and for the past five years
Brent Primus, J.D.
Ricky, I am curious as to who you mean by “subsidized foreigners”? Any particular carriers that you care to name? Yours,
Art
The foreigner carriers use illegal aliens paying them peanuts.
The playing field is not even.
That’s why rates are unreasonably low.
Troy
They lost a contract with 1 customer in Wisconsin. Just another day in this industry. Stop making more out of this than it actually is. Black Horse is not closing their doors.
Tony Curvey
They did for those 60 employees
D Roberts
Larry,
I think you can add to your comment that our competitors going in the back door of our customers and cutting the rate so low that you can’t compete is another reason…It is a shame, look at all the people that have lost their businesses and jobs, due to companies just can’t afford the insurance rates, ELD logs has put a terrible hurt on the truckers and then shippers want to cut rates and if you don’t you are out… It is a dog eat dog world out there…I just pray that they all find somewhere to continue to work…
Jeff Campbell
We can blame elog,100$ per month per truck,bottom figure,and poor freight equals failure.every dam time.
Larry
A customer cancelling a contract has nothing to do with ELogs. No matter what company they use will still have them. Contracts get cancelled due to poor customer service or poor business practices on one or both of the companies.
Steven J
Or some idiot on the spot market hauling it for less than cost just to get the freight, then raising it back later hoping to keep it, but losing it to another cut throat broker. That’s the industry we’re in today.
Harshvir
Thanks you for dedication!