Hundreds of Texans will be without work after a Boerne-based freight service that partnered with Amazon shuts down operations.
4XH Logistics LLC is laying off 230 workers starting Nov. 6 as part of its “ramp down provisions,” CEO Gabriel Hilario wrote in a Sept. 10 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letter to the Texas Workforce Commission and to Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones. Hilario did not respond to requests for comment.
The layoffs are expected to be completed by Nov. 19.
The delivery company and Amazon delivery service partner operated out of an office at 1415 E. Blanco 7 in Boerne. The U.S. Department of Transportation registration system shows an active registration for 20 trucks. It is unclear if those included the subcontracted freights with Amazon.
As a partner with the e-commerce giant, 4XH often handled the final leg of deliveries out of Amazon’s warehouse on the Southwest Side.
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The freight company was hiring delivery drivers as recently as July, with one job posting offering a starting hourly wage of $19.30. The freight company scored a 2.8-star rating on Indeed, with comments ranging from a five-star review citing good pay and a flexible schedule to a one-star review that said it was “a terrible company to work for.”
The closure comes amid layoffs across the freight industry, as factories are consolidated and operations shift. FreightWaves reported that there are at least 1,222 jobs in the freight economy being eliminated as a result.
Amazon accounted for nearly 500 of those jobs, which are tied to the temporary closure its Port St. Lucie facility in Florida. But because that facility is undergoing a $200 million renovation, those layoffs aren’t expected to be permanent, unlike most of the others in the report.
Despite the shifts across the industry, Amazon announced last week it plans to boost its starting hourly wage a dollar to $20 ahead of the holiday shopping season. The pay boost is for its full-time core operations employees, who handle jobs like packing and shipping orders. Because the $1 an hour pay boost is across the board, the average pay for those employees will rise to nearly $24. The pay increase will go into effect on Sept. 27.
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This article originally published at Boerne freight company tied to Amazon laying off 230 workers in San Antonio area.