A. Duie Pyle buys 2 more Yellow terminals for $4.5M

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A. Duie Pyle has agreed to acquire another two terminals from bankrupt Yellow Corp. for $4.5 million, according to court documents.

The terminals, in Bowling Green, Ohio, and Charleston, West Virginia, will add 110 terminal doors to the Pennsylvania-based LTL carrier’s growing regional network. A bankruptcy judge approved the deal Friday.

The facility at 20820 Midstar Drive in Bowling Green is about three times the size of the one in Charleston. The Ohio facility offers 80 doors and 43,735 square feet on a 24.1-acre property, according to previously filed court documents.

The other, at 2201 6th Ave. in West Virginia’s state capital, has 30 doors and 14,800 square feet on 3.32 acres of land.

Pyle’s most recent acquisitions add to the previous four terminals it acquired from Yellow in 2023. The carrier also bought back a lease from Yellow subsidiary New Penn Motor Express on a terminal in Queens, New York.

The Ohio terminal joins another site that Pyle operates in Cleveland, as well as a Columbus terminal it leased from ABF Freight, which Pyle will move into sometime in early Q3, said John Luciani, A. Duie Pyle’s COO of LTL solutions, in an interview.

But Pyle’s expanding direct service to Ohio — and Dayton Freight Lines’ move into Pennsylvania — won’t end the carriers’ two-decade interline relationship, which sends about 20 shipments per day in each direction, Luciani said.

“We realized that it’s more effective just for us to open Ohio and for them to open PA, but the partnership remains strong,” Luciani said. “We’ll continue to give them shipments outside of the state of Ohio, Indianapolis, wherever their direct coverage is. We’ll continue to use them exclusively.”