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.

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More info on the Arrow Trucking fiasco.

If business leaders don't want to be treated like kids and
crooks, why do they keep acting like kids and crooks?

Is it time to create a new criminal charge "reckless management"
as a parallel to "reckless driving." Just as you are not allowed
to operate a motor vehicle in a careless or reckless manner on
the public roads, should you be allowed to operate a business in
a careless or reckless manner?

http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/a...078&rss_lnk=11
snip
Poor decision-making
At the center of the cyclone and, some say, one of the causes of
Arrow's collapse, was Doug Pielsticker's inexperience, poor
decision-making, casual work ethic and extravagant lifestyle.

Arrow employees who struggled with family expenses during the
past few years were struck by the contrast of Pielsticker, 41,
driving British Bentley and Italian Maserati cars to work.
snip
Gift of a Ducati
In April, about the same time the company began running up unpaid
bills and drivers began noticing the company was not repairing
equipment, Pielsticker received an Italian racing motorcycle as
an anniversary present from his wife, according to his Facebook
page.
snip
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Very insightful comment about another trucking company on the
edge:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=akW2fq12ZKOA
snip
No so-called less-than-truckload company -- one that hauls goods
for more than one customer in the same trailer -- has survived
bankruptcy in the last 30 years, according to the Teamsters, the
union that says it represents about 30,000 YRC employees.
snip


Unka George

(George McDuffee)

The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).