But air travelers get a special bill of rights.
Didn’t care about employees? What about shippers?
The employees should sell the freight for gas money home and park the trucks in their front yards with for sale signs on them.
I blame obama
Classy. Wonder what special packages management got n the way out.
obama will save them.
Demanding that employees return company owned vehicles at their own expense under threat of criminal theft charges, is EXTORTION. Where is the DA,Attorney General?
But profit is evil, so they got what they deserved.
All companies that earn profits deserve to go bankrupt.
Only non-profit companies deserve to exist.
Like the federal government. It's non-profit.
For Sale: Can be seen at Joe’s Truck Stop. Mack truck parts, tires and chains. Whole trailer load of merchandise. Cash and carry only. No offers refused.
At least Arrow could tell the employees that they were going out of business...and could have told the customers as well.
If I were the employees...I would hang on to the company trucks until all employee pay due is paid. Doubt that law enforcement is going to waste their time rounding up all those with company trucks
If so, a new meaning of the American flag: "Screw you."
Ryan how many truckers use "gas cards"?
I hear rumors that Yellow Freight is also in BIG trouble....
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Apparently the Arrow attitude of “screw you” is of long standing.
ARROW TRUCKING = Tulsa, Oklahoma YES, ARROW TRUCKING IS A DISGRACE TO THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY !!!! Tulsa Oklahoma
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Trucking-Companies/ARROW-TRUCKING/arrow-trucking-tulsa-oklaho-9admc.htm
12/22/2009
WYETHEVILLE, Va.—For David Furnier, everything was going well at Arrow Trucking Co. The Houston, Texas, trucker was getting plenty of loads and was receiving his paychecks regularly.
Then he woke up Tuesday without a job and feeling like Armageddon had hit.
Furnier, speaking to The Trucker from a TravelCenters of America truck stop here, said he and other drivers were blindsided by the announcement Tuesday that Arrow was shutting its doors.
“We weren’t expecting this to happen,” Furnier said by telephone Tuesday afternoon. “We’d heard that the company was going to do a little bit of restructuring, but this is more than restructuring. This is complete annihilation. It feels like today was Armageddon for us as Arrow drivers.”
Furnier, who drives a Freightliner tractor, said Arrow drivers under a load were being told to go to a Freightliner dealership and drop the entire tractor trailer with the load and Arrow or somebody “would come get the load and put it on their trailer. They are saying that nobody is getting any money for fuel, but they are getting bus tickets. But it will take drivers three or four days to get home and that’s just not fair to us.”
Furnier and his wife, who is traveling with him, had planned to be back in Houston to spend Christmas with his wife’s children.
But the news Tuesday changed those plans.
Now he and his wife will bobtail to Camp Lejeune, N.C., where his son-in-law is completing a contract, and spend Christmas there.
That’s where he’ll turn the truck in to a Freightliner dealer since Daimler (Freightliner’s parent company) Financial Services owns the truck.
It won’t be on Arrow’s money, however, since the company has cancelled use of its fuel cards.
“I don’t have enough fuel, but I have some money coming from a friend who is going to help me out,” Furnier said.
Furnier said he’d not been paid for his last load and wouldn’t be paid for his current load, a flatbed of fiber optic cable destined for Dallas.
He’s also learned that the paycheck of his driver manager bounced last Friday.
The closing is naturally going to impact Furnier’s Christmas and those of other Arrow drivers and employees.
“I have a lot of friends who are really upset. I’ve called a lot of them in the last 12 hours. They are throwing a hissy fit. They are really upset,” said Furnier, who added he would go on the Internet and send out job applications when he got to North Carolina.
My brother paid for fuel out of his own pocket and never got his last paycheck or a reimbursement for his expenses.
We have 25 posts an no one mentioned that the company violated the law. They failed to provide 60 days notice of layoffs.
The result is exactly what logically must happen because of this law. Had they provided the 60 day notification, orders would have disappeared and disgruntled employees would destroy equipment and freight. There would have been no chance of recovery.
It is truly the fault of the leftist policies that are destroying America. The employees are American and got what they wanted
My ex got stranded over 1,000 miles from home. He was just hired by them and hadn’t even received his first paycheck. He has no money, nothing. Bustards.
I wonder how many other trucking companies are teetering on the brink?