Landline Magazine is reporting that Arrow Trucking has given it’s employees an unexpected Christmas present.
Drivers for Arrow Trucking have been notified to turn in their trucks at the nearest Freightliner Dealership. Some drivers have ran out of fuel, at truck stops, and have been instructed to turn in their truck keys, to truck stop attendants.
Drivers are left on their own to find transportation home. Daimler is offering, up to, $200 in travel expense reimbursement.
BREAKING NEWS: Arrow drivers wake to nightmare before Christmas
Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 – On Tuesday, as many as 1,400 truck drivers for Arrow Trucking Co., based out of Tulsa, OK, have been frantically trying to figure out their next moves as the company unexpectedly announced it was “suspending all operations” that day.
Truckers started calling in to the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and Land Line after they were awakened with phone calls from their dispatchers alerting them to the grim news that the company was shutting its doors and that their instructions were to turn in their trucks to the nearest Freightliner dealership. However, no instructions were given for drivers of International trucks.
One OOIDA member told Land Line on Tuesday, Dec. 22, that he had a bad feeling this was coming down the pike when his fuel card didn’t work at a truck stop the previous night. As of press time, the company driver, who didn’t want to be named, was stranded at a Freightliner dealership in Roanoke, VA, because he didn’t have enough fuel to make it to his delivery in Maryland.
The the rest of the article from Landline Magazine.
