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1 posted on 12/23/2009 5:37:50 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB
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But air travelers get a special bill of rights.


2 posted on 12/23/2009 5:39:55 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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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.


3 posted on 12/23/2009 5:40:34 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The CRU needs adult supervision.)
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I blame obama


4 posted on 12/23/2009 5:41:03 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Classy. Wonder what special packages management got n the way out.


5 posted on 12/23/2009 5:41:30 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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obama will save them.


6 posted on 12/23/2009 5:41:34 AM PST by sport
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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?


9 posted on 12/23/2009 5:43:01 AM PST by eyeamok
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If they cared about their employees they would have earned enough profit to stay in business.

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.

10 posted on 12/23/2009 5:43:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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Low...real low, to the point of cruelty.


15 posted on 12/23/2009 5:50:05 AM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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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.


16 posted on 12/23/2009 5:50:20 AM PST by NH Red
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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


17 posted on 12/23/2009 5:50:20 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Al Gore is neither a scientist (Global Warming Fraud) nor an economist (Free Trade, NAFTA))
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Is this the company?

If so, a new meaning of the American flag: "Screw you."

18 posted on 12/23/2009 5:51:25 AM PST by Rebelbase
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It is being reported that some Arrow Trucking employees didn't find out they were out of a job until their gas cards were rejected

Ryan how many truckers use "gas cards"?

21 posted on 12/23/2009 5:54:26 AM PST by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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I hear rumors that Yellow Freight is also in BIG trouble....


23 posted on 12/23/2009 5:56:44 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.


24 posted on 12/23/2009 6:00:22 AM PST by Oratam
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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


29 posted on 12/23/2009 6:14:52 AM PST by BilLies
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From The Trucker:

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.

30 posted on 12/23/2009 6:14:57 AM PST by upchuck (The plan for 2010: Pray; Raise/conserve cash; Pray; Pay your debts; Pray; Stockpile; Buy ammo; VOTE!)
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That happened to my brother this summer. He was a trucker taking a load west from Charlotte, NC. He stopped for fuel in TN and his card was rejected. He called the company and no one answered. He finally got ahold of one of the other employees who told him that the company was out of business, the insurance on his rig was cancelled, and his credit cards were no good.

My brother paid for fuel out of his own pocket and never got his last paycheck or a reimbursement for his expenses.

31 posted on 12/23/2009 6:17:45 AM PST by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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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


32 posted on 12/23/2009 6:21:01 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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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.


35 posted on 12/23/2009 6:27:54 AM PST by Siouxz
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I wonder how many other trucking companies are teetering on the brink?


39 posted on 12/23/2009 6:38:15 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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