“...other lenders had to track down trucks that were run out of gas and left beside the road”
Wow, did that really happen? The drivers did that on purpose?
I wouldn’t be surprised if the trucks ran out of fuel because the company’s fuel cards were no longer being accepted at truck stops.
Out on the road, gas card cancelled, no way to get home-they headed for home and got as far as the fuel they had would take them. Upside most of them didn’t vandalize the trucks.
Can’t find a story on it - I may have been thinking of Celadon instead of Consolidated but I’m thinking the one I’m recalling was from earlier. Here’s a story about Celadon that mentions stranded truckers. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/celadon-bankrutpcy-biggest-of-nearly-800-trucking-companies-failures-in-first-three-quarters-of-2019/
Out on the road, gas card cancelled, no way to get home-they headed for home and got as far as the fuel they had would take them. Upside most of them didn’t vandalize the trucks.
Can’t find a story on it - I may have been thinking of Celadon instead of Consolidated but I’m thinking the one I’m recalling was from earlier. Here’s a story about Celadon that mentions stranded truckers. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/celadon-bankrutpcy-biggest-of-nearly-800-trucking-companies-failures-in-first-three-quarters-of-2019/
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.