MAYBROOK – Dozens of workers including drivers and mechanics at the Maybrook Yellow Corp. depot will be looking for new jobs as the company announced it has stopped operating on Sunday.
Rows of tractor-trailers are lined up in the Yellow parking lots along Route 208 in Maybrook.
Village Mayor Dennis Leahy termed the company’s demise “unfortunate,” but said the property is a prime site especially with a rail line right behind it.
“Everybody thinks the sky is falling and everything else, and here you have an existing trucking site and there are other people looking for trucking sites and that rail service is valuable, so that would be an asset to anybody that decided to come in there,” he said.
Orange County Partnership President Maureen Halahan was disappointed with the decision to close, but noted it was made at the corporate level of the company.
She anticipates finding a new opportunity for future use of the property.
All of the entrances to the Maybrook facility were blocked off, the mechanics’ repair bays were silent, yet a “help wanted” sign remained affixed to a fence on the front side of the property.
