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Transportation company announces 84 layoffs in Central Pa., Lehigh Valley
A Kansas-based provider of rail crew transportation services is laying off 84 van drivers in Pennsylvania, including many in Central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley, after losing a contract with Virginia-based rail giant Norfolk Southern Corp.
Hallcon Corp. has filed a notice this week with the state under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice, or WARN, Act. The notice said Norfolk Southern is ending its contract with Hallcon, effective July 14.
Hallcon operates multiple hubs in the railroad’s Harrisburg region where its drivers pick up and drop off train crews from start and end points on their rail routes.
“It is our understanding another company, PTI, will assume the contract for services with NS for this region,” Hallcon wrote in the WARN notice to the state.
Hallcon officials said it’s possible that the new contractor will hire some of the 84 workers impacted by the change. The Hallcon workers are assigned to Norfolk Southern rail yards in Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lehigh, Montgomery and Northumberland counties.
