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/
"In the first three quarters of 2019, nearly 800 carriers went out of business, more than double the count of trucking failures in 2018"Wow, what a failure rate. Further in the article you see how quickly the fleets adjust to changing market conditions...
"In 2018, 310 trucking companies with an average fleet size of nine trucks failed, pulling 2,800 trucks off the road. The 795 companies that pulled the plug in the first three quarters of 2019 averaged 30 trucks, with nearly 24,000 trucks pulled off U.S. roadways."I wonder how badly the ridiculous government over-reaction to COVID clobbered trucking. Pretty bad, I would assume.