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.