Employer · WARN Act history · Transportation & Warehousing
Central Freight Lines
445 workers across 2 WARN notices, primarily in TX - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 445
- Workers cut
- 2
- WARN notices
- 1
- State
- 223
- Avg / notice
Central Freight Lines has 2 recorded WARN filings affecting 445 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Central Freight Lines has 2 recorded filings covering 445 workers across 1 state, primarily TX, the 427th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Central Freight Lines is a minor share of Transportation & Warehousing WARN activity — 0.3% of the sector's 158,362 workers across 311 employers, ranking #43 in Transportation & Warehousing.
Central Freight Lines city concentration · concentrated
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
Ft. Worth accounts for 65.6% of Central Freight Lines's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Lead city Ft. Worth · 65.6% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer CENTRAL-FREI · Central Freight Lines 445 workers · 2 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-MID · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-UNK · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-SINGLE · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-LIGHT 2 filings
- WORK-MID #427
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-UNK Runway n/a
- STAT-SINGLE TX
- BOOK-SINGLE 1 agency
- TYPE-LAYOFF 2 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Central Freight Lines WARN filings · notice runway
Top 2 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Ft. Worth, TX · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 292 workers · filed Dec 13, 2021 · 0d runway
- Waco, TX · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 153 workers · filed Dec 13, 2021 · 0d runway
Median forward runway across 2 dated filings: 0 days (2 under 60d · 0 at/above 60d · 2 same-day or retroactive).
Where Central Freight Lines Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Central Freight Lines is in the 151-500 bucket (#427 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Dec 2021.
WARN Notice History
2021
Waco, TX · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Dec 13, 2021
153
workers
Filed Dec 13, 2021
Ft. Worth, TX · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Dec 13, 2021
292
workers
Filed Dec 13, 2021
Questions about this Central Freight Lines record
What is the largest Central Freight Lines WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Ft. Worth, TX on Dec 13, 2021, covering 292 workers in Transportation & Warehousing.
Where were Central Freight Lines's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Waco and Ft. Worth; together they form 2 mass-layoff filings sourced from Texas Workforce Commission. States represented in this record: TX.
Where is Central Freight Lines's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Ft. Worth accounts for 65.6% of Central Freight Lines's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Does Central Freight Lines's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
All 2 filings fall in 2021, so the record describes a concentrated episode rather than a multi-year cadence.
How much advance notice appears in Central Freight Lines's record? ▼
No trustworthy advance-notice runway can be derived from these rows because the source dates are equal, missing, or retroactive.
See also: TX WARN filings · Transportation & Warehousing industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Central Freight Lines notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.