What happens to everything that is being shipped? Does it just rot away in dusty trailers and abandoned warehouses and sorting rooms?
Do you believe in free markets?
This is part of the creative destruction inherent in free markets. Shippers will find new carriers that don’t suck, as Yellow obviously did.
Life will go on with less suck. Things improve.
This is the way. No government bailouts needed.
But by midweek last week, the company had stopped picking up freight from its customers and was making deliveries only of freight already in its system, according to both the union and Satish Jindel, a trucking industry consultant.
One hopes it all got delivered by Friday.