WARN Feed · layoffs by industry

US warehouse, trucking and logistics layoffs — the actual WARN Act filings, rebuilt every day

1,888 warehouse, trucking and logistics layoff and closing notices filed with state labour agencies under the WARN Act, from 1990 to 2026, covering 226,657 reported workers at 794 employers in 45 states. Free, CC BY 4.0, rebuilt every morning from the agency portals — no login, no key, no email.

Download every sector-tagged notice (CSV) This industry as its own dataset on Hugging Face

Who is in this cut

Included: warehouses, fulfillment and distribution centers, trucking and LTL carriers, freight forwarders and 3PLs, parcel and courier networks, school-bus and transit contractors, ports and rail, and parking operators.

What counts as logistics here: the employer name reads as a logistics, trucking, freight, warehouse, distribution-center, fulfillment, supply-chain, courier, transit, bus, rail, port or parking operator, or is one of ~80 named carriers and networks (Amazon, FedEx, UPS, XPO, DHL, GXO, Ryder, First Student, MV Transportation, Transdev, LAZ Parking…). Amazon is here in full — its WARN filings are almost all fulfillment and delivery sites — and so are school-bus and transit contractors, which are the largest single group after warehousing. Airlines are deliberately NOT here (they sit with aerospace and defence in the sector dataset), and a manufacturer's own distribution arm lands here only if the word is in its name. Every row keeps the sector_rule that fired, so any inclusion can be disputed row by row.

Why this file exists

A distribution-center closing or a carrier shutting a terminal is reported as a local story, if at all; the filings behind those stories — which site, which town, how many workers, notice date, effective date, closure or layoff — sit on 48 separate state portals and are never assembled as one logistics series. This file is that series, with the closure/layoff split the states themselves recorded.

The employers with the most warehouse, trucking and logistics notices on record

Counted per notice, not per event: a company that files in four states files four notices. Employer names are the resolved spelling — the raw agency spelling is kept in the download.

The 15 most recent warehouse, trucking and logistics notices

Date is the notice date where the agency publishes one, otherwise the layoff date. 626 of the 1,888 notices in this cut are recorded as a closure rather than a layoff.

How the industry is decided: no state WARN portal publishes an industry field, so there is no NAICS column to filter on. The sector here is assigned from the resolved employer name by a published rule table (19 sectors, 3,152 patterns, first match wins), and every row carries the pattern that fired in its sector_rule column so you can audit or re-cut it. The archive holds 61,428 notices; 61,232 of them carry a usable date and are in the sector file (196 have no date in either column), 32,168 come out with a sector, and 29,064 stay unclassified — and are still counted in every total shown anywhere on this site. Manual audit 2026-09-12: 4 of 60 sampled rows were assigned to the wrong sector. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.

How to check any of this

Every number on this page is computed at build time from notices_by_sector.csv (one row per notice, with the sector and the rule that assigned it), and the yearly series from sector_by_year.csv. The free HTTP API serves the whole archive as JSON, NDJSON and per-state CSV with no key. This industry is also published as its own Hugging Face dataset, and the full sector cut as one file. If a number here disagrees with the file, the file is right and it is a bug — tell us and it is fixed the next morning.

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