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New England Motor Freight, Inc. (NEMF) was a unionized less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload freight carrier, based in Elizabeth, New Jersey. It was one of the largest LTL carriers in the US Northeast when it entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019 and subsequently shut down all operations in 2020.
Negotiations between the ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance began breaking down in June 2024. [6] One major sticking point was wages. The ILA wanted members to receive a $5/hour raise each year of the next six-year contract, whereas the Maritime Alliance proposed a $2.50/hour raise each year.
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Along with the lease of the New England Railroad in 1898, the 1893 lease arrangement gave the NYNH&H a virtual monopoly on rail transport in southern New England. On September 22, 1895, the New Haven converted all former Old Colony lines from left-hand running to right-hand running. [12] On April 6, 1902, a new alignment was opened from ...
Consolidated Freightways was founded on April 1, 1929 by Leland James in Portland, Oregon.Originally a single truck LTL operation, in the early days James combined four local short-haul carriers in the Portland area into a single carrier.
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The New England Southern made its inaugural freight run to Manchester on July 14, 1985, using leased Maine Central EMD GP7 581, on loan from Guilford (which had purchased the Maine Central in 1981 and the B&M in 1983). [1] New England Southern Railroad #503 heads north through Weirs Beach in 1987 with freight bound for Rochester Shoe Tree in ...
The final New England state without a railroad, Vermont, gained its first when the Vermont Central Railroad was chartered in 1843. [12] In the year 1850, no less than half of the railroad mileage in the United States was within New England. [13] Entering the second half of the 19th century, many smaller companies merged or were absorbed by others.