Trucking company bankruptcy costs state 524 jobs, 116 locally

The shuttering and subsequent bankruptcy of the national transportation company Yellow Corp. led to 524 lost jobs in the state of Florida, a sliver of the 30,000 jobs cut nationwide.

The Nashville-based company outlined the number of positions eliminated in a letter posted on Florida’s Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification’s database Monday afternoon.

Of the total jobs cut, 97 were in Tampa and 19 in Fort Myers. Elsewhere in Florida, 191 jobs were eliminated in Miami, 114 in Orlando, 45 in Jacksonville, 39 in Boyton Beach and 19 in Ocala.