One of the nation's largest trucking companies, Yellow, has filed for bankruptcy less than two weeks after announcing its closure.

The business, which has been around for 99 years, said it made the decision so that it could close its operations in an "orderly" way. It was just three years ago that the major trucking company received a $700 million pandemic-era lifeline from the federal government, according to the New York Times.

"It is with profound disappointment that Yellow announces that it is closing after nearly 100 years in business," Yellow CEO Darren Hawkins said in a statement as the company filed a Chapter 11 petition in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware.

The nearly century-old business employed about 30,000 people as recently as late last month but reportedly faced problems concerning consistency and padding investors' profit margins. Yellow, prior to its closure, ran about 12,000 trucks moving freight across the United States for large-scale clients, such as Walmart and Home Depot, as well as smaller businesses.

Once the Nashville, Tennessee-based company announced its closure, which followed contentious contract negotiations with the Teamsters Union in which a strike was just narrowly avoided, it was expected that the company would take the course of filing for bankruptcy.