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Arrow Trucking Bankruptcy: Tulsa Staff Sent Home
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by Jordan Yerman | December 22, 2009 at 08:37 am
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Arrow Trucking is facing bankruptcy as employees are getting sent home. Employees of the Tulsa, OK trucking firm are wondering if their jobs will still exist in a few days after they were told to empty their desks and go home this morning.
Supposedly Arrow Trucking employees will know within 24 hours if they're out of a job, but I would suggest looking for new work immediately. If the phones are switched off and drivers are getting told to sideline their trucks, don't expect a Christmas miracle.
Drivers from Tennessee to Wyoming said they have had the company stop payment on their gas cards, stranding them at truck stops around the country.
Williams said workers weren't given their last paychecks and benefits have been cut off. Some drivers are stranded along their routes and are struggling to find a way home because of orders to sideline the rigs, she said.
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at 09:08 on December 22nd, 2009
Does anyone out there know if Arrow Trucking has filed for bankruptcy? Mike Harris
at 13:56 on December 28th, 2009
Well this is the worst thing I have heard in a long time. I am a layed off Kennedy driver from Carrollton,KY. They closed Carrollton on 10/30/09 and did not strand drivers out on the road. I understand what they had to do to try and stay alive. The times that we are living in really scares the hell out of me. I am now going to change careers (with some help from grants for school, maybe). The thing that makes me so mad is why does our goverment worry about health care and over seas stuff more than US! The jobs that are being created are $5-$10 an hour jobs and I dont have to explain what this kind of income would be like to live at!! There is a Company in Carrollton right know looking for a second shift dispatcher/load planner with 5 years experience and only looking to pay $9 hour ($10000 a year less than the national average for a person with these skills). I have know that I have gotten off the subject of this post and for that I am sorry (guess I needed to vent some anger myself). I hope that all of the Arrow drivers are safe and make it home safe. I also want you to know that you are not the only ones going thru this!!!!!!!!!!
at 09:05 on January 13th, 2010
I am sorry to hear about Arrow's demise. In addition to the employees their customers are hurting too. I am a freight broker and would like for anyone with Arrow's customer information to contact me. I can work with you to make some "lemondae out of these lemons". PS..I have been in the trucking business since 1988 and personally have been part of 5 of these "shutdowns" so I know what it feels like. Contact me at cbmmrc@gmail.com
at 11:03 on December 22nd, 2009
I have been looking into this with interest. Things are going pretty badly for them, hope their employees do well. Mike, I think not yet, but I dont think its far off.
at 12:05 on December 22nd, 2009
While I can't yet find evidence that it actually filed for bankruptcy, Arrow is sure acting like a bankrupt company. If I were an Arrow employee, I'd be on Craigslist or Monster or the classifieds right now. Even if the doors reopen tomorrow, how long until this happens again?
at 12:10 on December 22nd, 2009
my dad is a truck driver for thm its a sham they wont even pay for their late week frm wht he has said to me this ppl have kids an to do this to them at cristmass what a sham
at 12:11 on December 22nd, 2009
Insane!!! My b/f is a trucker. He doesn't work for Arrow, thank goodness! OMG! These poor people! 3 days before Christmas! Deimler is giving them a bus ticket home, but what about all of their personal stuff they have in their tractors?
at 13:12 on December 22nd, 2009
This more than insane, this is inhumane. Arrow Trucking has left it's drivers stranded without fuel in cold weather and no fuel to keep warm. My Son-in-law was told to get a hotel room to stay warm last night. Arrow Trucking new this was coming and the least they could have done was to allow the drivers to get home before they shut off the fuel cards. Truck drivers carry alot of stuff with them to be able to survive on a day to day basis. Things we take forgrantged. The fact that they have been left to fend for themselves while the owners are home warm in their beds is a travesty. If it were not for Truck Drivers the country would not move. Everything we use is moved by the Truck drivers in this country in one way or another. And now this is how they are repaid. How many other Trucking Companies will do this to it's Drivers? And what can we do to help?
at 14:22 on December 22nd, 2009
OOIDA is attempting to hook stranded arrow drivers up with other trucks on the road to try and get these guys home.
at 15:03 on December 22nd, 2009
USA Truck is stable and hiring qualified drivers. Their recruiting number is: 800-237-4642.
at 16:23 on December 22nd, 2009
Perhaps they are, but they don't pay worth crap!!!!
at 05:32 on December 24th, 2009
Perhaps, but some job beats the hell out of no job.
at 16:34 on December 22nd, 2009
Help is available to driver's....go to this web link for channel 6
at 16:35 on December 22nd, 2009
Just found a link on channel 6's website to help those drivers and other personnel. www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=11718693 Good Luck!
at 18:02 on December 22nd, 2009
Who are Arrow's customers? I have some new sales calls to make. I feel for the drivers maybe picking up some of their customers will afford me the opportunity to hire some drivers. Just a thought
at 18:06 on December 22nd, 2009
Better than that, who's their Bank. Are their trucks taken care of? I'm guess there are probably some descent trucks but, maybe I'm wrong, maybe they have been pocketing the money instead of taking care of their drivers and equipment.
at 06:58 on December 28th, 2009
Not sure how they treated their truck. My friend has a maintance fund that he built up (around $10,000 grand) and had his truck in the shop when this happened. Arrow called Freightliner and told them to put the old parts back on the truck because they would not pay for the maintance. Funny but it wasn't their money, this was money that was taken out of his payroll and put aside for repairs and maintance. He is going to the meeting tomorrow to see how he can get that back.
at 18:09 on December 22nd, 2009
Who's their Bank?
at 19:22 on December 22nd, 2009
they use or used transportation alliance bank
at 19:31 on December 22nd, 2009
I heard about this earlier today and I am not supprised. I am in the industry and it is sad when you can't even dispatch a load and pay your driver a decent pay. This has been coming for a long time. I have watched the bigger companies push rates to an all time low. I also have watched companies fall off and there are alot of people that are hurting because of the current market. I can only hope that everyone makes it home. I know that I will be working overtime over the holidays to keep my head above water and I am calling all the customers that I know are using Arrow and offering my services to bail them out. I wish there was a easier way to approach this but it is the times we live in these days. I will tell you that this is not the end of trucking companies either closing of running for the hills just as Arrow did today.
at 19:43 on December 22nd, 2009
I've been in flatbed transportation for many years. in sales, fleet management , operations, brokerage ..You name it, I've done it ..and still can ! I've been looking for a job after I got downsized out for about a month now from a major flatbed carrier and so far I've not had much luck . Good luck to everyone in the industry to get thru this awful time
at 20:26 on December 22nd, 2009
This is a shame. These drivers were working hard and not making that much but, the company could not handle the fuel issues and repair issues with a fleet of 1400 trucks! Now how do these drivers get paid? How do they get home? Some actually just live in their trucks because, they have too!
at 04:22 on December 23rd, 2009
copied from CL -
"To the Owners of Arrow Trucking. You all have to be the biggest ass holes in the world. You have known for months that you were going broke. Putting used parts on trucks that come into the shop to be repaired and checks bouncing for months but yet right here before Christmas you have sent several hundered drivers out on the road with no money and all you can offer them is a free bus ride home. Someone ought to take you guys out and tie you to a tree and beat the living piss out of you guys. Right here before Christmas and you do people like this.
I was a vendor that put you guys on cash only basis months ago. Why couldnt you have just been honest with your employee's and shut the business down and at least did it at a time when you could have given them their last pay check. ARROW TRUCKING is the SCUM of the earth. You guys are some real Pr ....... "
at 08:17 on December 23rd, 2009
this is not the first time a company(trucking) has gone out of buisness and have did this to their employees. More people need to be made aware of this kind of buisness practice that trucking companies employ. I've been a driver for 13 years and the way trucking companies treat their employees and how they operate their companies needs to be made public as well as investigated. Maybe Obama can bail them out! We need trucking reform
at 10:15 on December 23rd, 2009
Attention Arrow drivers: If you are driving an International, please take it to the nearest International dealership. Navistar Financial wants to help you get home and is offering a bus ticket or $200 cash. For help, please call Navistar Financial at 800-233-9121 and select #3 for customer service. If you call outside of business hours, please leave a message with your name, a phone number where we can reach you, your current location, and the VIN number of your truck.
at 16:54 on December 26th, 2009
The 200 is crap just way get the truck back. arrow driver told me. Im a manger a petro and we have feed them and help them find way home. So this is sad but very nice seeing everyone try help out.
at 07:04 on December 28th, 2009
Thank you! My son's dad is one of them that is stranded. The truck stop that he is at has been very kind to these drivers. A ticket home or $200 is not to benefit the drivers but to benefit the lease holders of these trucks. Don't try to look like a saint when you really look like a snake!
at 07:01 on December 28th, 2009
This is crap, the only reason you want to help drivers is so that you can get your trucks back! Don't act as if you are doing this for their benefit.
at 12:23 on December 23rd, 2009
I think navistar is only worried about recovering all of arrows trucks, cause if I was one of their drivers; I'd abandon the ten in some far away place in a mud pit and tell arrow to come get their truck.
at 13:58 on December 23rd, 2009
As a fellow driver I can really feel for these drivers. I've had 2 companies I've driven for stop paying me. One went out of business and just changed names. Either way I was out almost 5 grand each time. Hang in there and move on.