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Default Arrow Trucking Shuts Doors


"Jim Chandler" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:01:09 -0800, "Bill McKee"
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:59:50 -0800, "Bill McKee"
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"John R. Carroll" wrote in message
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jeff wrote:
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:12:18 -0800, "azotic" wrote:

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.


http://www.landlinemag.com/Special_R...ow-drivers.htm

Best Regards

Tom.

That just isn't right... Pretty scary that this is whats happening
around our country.

Same thing happened five years ago (?) with Consolidated.
Did that frighten you?


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John R. Carroll



The scary part, is sometimes I think the Healthcare Bill is to keep
people
from looking at the lack of Congressional action on the meltdown. They
say
the Recession is ending. BS! Unemployment numbers still very high,
something like 319,000 people moved over to special extended
unemployment
just last week. They have given Wall Street bunches of money, and now
they
are giving it back after they used it to scam investors out of even more
money, and want no regulation of their business, until the next bailout
is
needed. We need to vote out all the incumbents. We may throw out a
good
one or 2 in the process, but is worth the error. The government has
added
about a 1/2 million in debt per family this year and not much has been
improved. The housing improvement is driven by the Tax Credit, and the
Fed
buying all new mortgages. What happens in 2 months when the Fed stops
buying the mortgages. And the interest rate starts rising again. How
many
foreclosures then? We have an administration saying we will cut
emissions.
While China and India are laughing all the way to more production. What
the
hell was Arnold, The Govenator, doing at the Climate summit. The
economy
in
California is in chaos. The Legislature has been overspending for years
and
committing spending into the future. They have the districts
Gerrymandered
so 90% get re-elected. We are screwed, or at least our kids and
grandkids
are.



Bill, are you aware of the new commission that will be redrawing the
political boundaries in 2011? I just saw something about it today.
They are looking for citizens to participate. The make up will be
five Democrats, five Republicans and four "no political party". This
was brought about by a referendum a couple of years ago. It's taking
forever to get anything done but at least SOMETHING will get done.

Jim


I may apply.
http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/



What the hell. The worst they can do is say "Thank you but your
services are not required." If it's done on the up and up (why do I
doubt that?) it will be a good thing. Who knows, maybe the
Republicans can gain control of the legislature and stop a lot of this
excessive taxing and spending that is going on. We can only hope.

Jim


The Republicans will not get control, and they seem to spend almost as much
as the Dems. But we may get a more centrist legislature. For years the
California legislature has been much more left than the state as an average.