[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Fasten your seatbelts.

[Maskot]

The illegal drivers will pay no mind to this shutdown order, they can’t read English anyhow so be careful out there folks

[Brian Griffin]

The article says the company was supposed to be sold but a lawsuit stopped the sale.

[KitJ]

ping

Resident FReeper OTR

[Mlheureux]

More drivers to fill shortage due to illegals leaving the industry. Win, win.

[dpetty121263]

Economy is getting better and better just ask Trump about that...

[philman_36]

However, on September 26, a lawsuit and restraining order filed by Rollins Montgomery reportedly halted the sale process.
No explanation of why the owner, Rollins, took that action.

[motor_racer]

The headline says “PE backed”. What is PE?

[DFG]

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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[BobL]

“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.”

[ZOOKER]

Folks are thirsty in Atlanta
and there's beer in Texarkana
and we'll get it there no matter what it takes

[bobbo666]

Do we know if any of these drivers have legal licenses?

[ZOOKER]

Just wondering - who owns the trucks?

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?

[logi_cal869]

*sigh*

‘It’ happens.

[FrankRizzo890]

Makes me wonder how many “NO NAME GIVEN” drivers they had, and if they saw the caca impacting the air mover as a result, and blew up the sale to hide that fact.

[mass55th]

What happened? They couldn’t find enough drivers that read and write English?