Posted on 07/29/2023 10:28:05 AM PDT by DFG
A lot of Yellow trailers are shipped by rail to the main terminals, both the long trailers and the pup trailers
Think UPS, Amazon. Save gas.
If they get the pay raise they threatened to strike for kiss savings good by.
I know a family where one of the sons worked for that company. He was several states away from home when he was told about the whole mess. He called his wife who drove down to a highway rest area and picked him up. From what I was told he never contacted the company and just parked the truck at that rest area for them to try to find.
The CBS News article posted by Par 35 in #49 says that other companies hired the stranded truckers and paid their way back home as part of their sign-on bonus. That was pretty cool.
I traveled a lot for a living in my first five years out of college (on the road 100% of the time, three years western USA and two years international). Fortunately, I always had round-trip tickets. It never occurred to me at the time that a company in severe financial distress could strand its employees in far-off lands.
I believe the company that went belly-up & stranded drivers was Arrow Trucking out of Tulsa. Owned by the Pielsticker family, the son took over & looted the cash flow. It happened around Christmas to really make it tough on the drivers.
“Unions probably contributed to its problems.”
...to say the least. They can learn to code for all I care.
I bought a chair thru Amazon, it was defective as the seat cushion leaned probably due to the foam or springs so I started a return. Office Depot truck had delivered but Amazon wanted me to ship the chair to Texas from Calif at my expense.... about $400!!
I contacted amazon and they agreed it would be better to deliver back to one of the Office Deport stores that were less then 4 miles in different directions from me. They scheduled a pick up from TForce on tuesday between 8:30am and 5pm. No one came or called so I contacted amazon who contacted the other company for a wednesday pickup. No pickup, I repeated this for Thursday, no pick up or call. I contacted amazon again and asked to be sure a pickup is done on friday.
At about 4:30pm the driver called and I missed the call.... I called back around 6pm after checking my phone. The driver spoke with thick Spanish accent. Now scheduled for pickup on monday : )
Good thing I am retired and could wait around all day.
If I knew this would happen I could have delivered the chair back myself.
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