Posted on 10/11/2025 4:40:02 AM PDT by xxqqzz
Mutha Trucker, a YouTube news source covering the trucking industry has reported that Montgomery Transport LLC, a Birmingham, Alabama-based trucking company, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and ceased operations effective immediately. 1000 employees out of work as trucker files for bankruptcy
The sudden shutdown has left hundreds of drivers stranded across America as the company’s leadership instructed them to halt operations. This abrupt closure represents a significant disruption in the trucking industry and has created immediate challenges for both drivers and clients dependent on Montgomery’s freight services.
Details of the Bankruptcy Filing The company officially announced its Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing, which indicates a complete liquidation rather than a reorganization. Unlike Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which allows companies to restructure while continuing operations, Chapter 7 signals the complete cessation of business activities. The announcement came suddenly, with employees receiving notification with almost no advance warning, forcing an immediate operational halt across the company’s network.
Impact on Employees The bankruptcy has resulted in approximately 1,000 employees losing their jobs, including 600 truck drivers who were actively working on deliveries across the country when the announcement was made. The company has instructed drivers who are close to home to return and await further instructions. Those currently completing deliveries have been told to finish their current loads but not to accept any new assignments. The widespread impact has created an immediate employment crisis for hundreds of families dependent on the company for their livelihoods.
(Excerpt) Read more at freightwaves.com ...
Fasten your seatbelts.
The drivers will have no problem getting new jobs. CDL drivers are in high demand.
The illegal drivers will pay no mind to this shutdown order, they can’t read English anyhow so be careful out there folks
The article says the company was supposed to be sold but a lawsuit stopped the sale.
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Resident FReeper OTR
More drivers to fill shortage due to illegals leaving the industry. Win, win.
Keep them wheels a rolling rawhide
Round’em up, ride’em in, keep them
wheels a turning, rawhide.
Economy is getting better and better just ask Trump about that...
What is the saying?...You must break some eggs to make the omelet.
To move beyond the effect of nobama and brandon there will be changes and disruptions. When you have 12 years of sociopaths running the government in random, often bizarre and criminal ways, there will be some times of uncertainty and disruption.
Hang on.
Not really. The industry still seems to have too much capacity. At best, getting rid of the illegal drivers may help to normalize it. We get between 12-20 calls a week from brokers and smaller companies looking for loads. And it isn't always the same local carriers, which I could at least appreciate the hustle.
CDL drivers are in high demand. Over the road drivers aren’t the only ones needing a CDL.
The headline says “PE backed”. What is PE?
i looked it up: it means private equity backed ... lots of those have been imploding lately, including the biggies Tricolor and First Brands ... greedy morons at banks and hedge funds have been shoveling money into these things without doing due diligence, with predictable results ...
Big wheels rollin’, big wheels rollin’
Movin’ on.
Big wheels rollin’, gotta keep ‘em goin,
Big wheels rollin’,
Movin’ On.
The white line is the life line to a nation.
And men like Will and Sonny make it move.
Livin’ like a gypsy, always on the go,
Doin’ what they best know how to do.
Jammin’ gears has got to be a fever,
‘Cause men become addicted to the grind.
It takes a special breed to be a truck drivin’ man,
And a steady hand to pull that load behind.
Big wheels rollin’, big wheels rollin’
Movin’ on.
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“Several companies have specifically directed their recruiting departments to contact former Montgomery Transport drivers, recognizing the skilled workforce suddenly available in the market.”
For those of you without CDL experience let me translate this part: “A bunch of qualified truckers who can pass a drug test has just become available, many without tattoos.”
Do we know if any of these drivers have legal licenses?
I assume these are drivers, not owner-operators, since the article describes them as "employees".
This gives rise to some interesting possibilities:
Montgomery trucks, valuable assets, scattered all over the country, as drivers will simply walk away and leave them, abandoned.
Drivers, in effect, stealing the trucks, contracting their own loads and earning income.
Abandoned trucks stripped for parts, sold "as is" for pennies on the dollar, driven to Mexico for resale.
And what about the loads that are in the trucks?
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