TP Freight Lines suspended operations in early August, closing terminals across Oregon roughly a year after the less than truckload carrier changed hands, according to Teamsters Joint Council 37.
The union said workers in Warrenton arrived on the morning of August 3 and could not enter the terminal because the landlord had changed the locks and placed a lien on the property. Similar action followed at the Eugene terminal on August 4. About 60 workers were affected, and payroll had already been disrupted before the closures.
Oregon state records list Mohamed Hegab as president of the business. Hegab is connected to Z10 Group, an Irvine, California consulting firm. The Teamsters said the sale of the company took place in June 2025, and TP Freight Lines described the transaction at the time as involving Z-10 and Team Shippers. The carrier website listed seven terminals in service. Company representatives did not respond to messages seeking comment.
The business traces its roots to 1922, when it began hauling general freight between Tillamook on the Oregon coast and nearby Portland.
The shutdown lands amid a broader wave of carrier failures. Trucking firms in several states have filed Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 petitions in recent months, and larger fleets have trimmed truck counts against soft demand. Regulatory pressure has added to the strain, including a federal move to increase oversight of non-domiciled commercial driver licenses and the Supreme Court decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, which pushed brokers to tighten carrier selection standards. Capacity leaving the market, rather than sustained demand growth, is doing much of the work in pulling the industry out of a four year freight recession.
Source: Trucking Dive - https://www.truckingdive.com/news/100-year-old-plus-business-tp-freight-lines-shutters-teamsters/828393/