#Keystone State Report: : The perils of Allegheny County . SalenaZito.com
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
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#Keystone State Report: The perils of Allegheny County. SalenaZito.com
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/07/30/joe-rockey-allegheny-county-executive-campaign/stories/202307300045?cid=search
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.4 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour, |
| 0:12.3 | because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or |
| 0:16.8 | serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:35.2 | This is TBSI in the world. I'm John Bettshire with Selena Zito of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, |
| 0:39.6 | the Washington Examiner of the New York Post. SelenaZito.com is where to find her reporting. |
| 0:44.2 | She writes the middle of somewhere column for the Washington Examiner. This is a sad story about |
| 0:48.8 | the teamsters not coming to terms with the yellow freight company out of Johnson County City |
| 0:55.4 | and Overland Park, Kansas, not coming to terms. Immediately after they did come to terms, |
| 1:00.4 | the teamsters, I mean, with UPS, including participation by the voice of the President of the United |
| 1:06.9 | States. This is 30,000 people, 22,000 of them and following Selena's reporting are teamsters. |
| 1:15.5 | Can this not be solved? They're now in bankruptcy reorganization. Is there a solution ahead, Selena? |
| 1:21.2 | No, it's over. It's so incredibly sad. It's yellow freight, and they have this ironic |
| 1:31.8 | orange cowering to their master, so people will be like, wait, what are you orange freight or yellow |
| 1:38.4 | freight? Yellow freight, the name came from the two brothers that founded the company |
| 1:44.4 | just under 100 years ago because they owned yellow cab. They were out of Oklahoma, |
| 1:50.8 | and eventually moving to Kansas. The problem is multiple issues. Right before the pandemic hit, |
| 2:03.4 | they had bought up, the yellow freight had bought up a lot of smaller freight companies to expand their |
| 2:11.9 | large assets, and then the pandemic hit, and then there were supply chain issues. It created |
| 2:20.6 | an economic crisis within the company. The Trump administration bailed them out. The yellow freight |
| 2:27.8 | did a lot of defense contracting shipping. But because they were unable to come to terms with |
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