1400 LEFT OUT IN THE COLD

[Best Syndication News] The Arrow Trucking Company stopped paying the gas cards for their drivers and have left some of their truckers miles away from home without any explanation as to why.

According to a report by The Christian Science Monitor drivers received only a brief recorded message on the company's main phone number saying that drivers of their Freightliner and Kenworth trucks need to return them to the nearest dealer and they can call a special number to get a bus ticket home. If they drove a Navistar truck they were told to call back for more information.

Tulsa World reported that 200 employees at the Oklahoma based Arrow Trucking were told to take their belongings and go home on Tuesday Morning.

1400 drivers lost their jobs, left stranded at Christmas, and not paid for about six weeks. This is the cruelest behavior I have ever heard. The upper management of Arrow need to be prosecuted, It is against the law to do this. Where is the federal government on this one. In the truckers forum they are hot about this one, and how these drivers were treated. I agree the drivers should have sold all they could off the trucks. One driver is still missing, his truck was found, but he is still missing. We do know what goes around comes around, it really does, I have seen it, over and over.

ECONOMIC CRISIS HITS TRUCKERS!

Yes, of course, the economic woes of the country is effecting the trucking industry. Freight drops during a recession and depression, which ever it really is. Although we haul just food, even our freight has dropped off, which is a bit scary. More truckers, than freight, means less miles, which in turn means less income. Although most must be thinking with fuel cost down this would help the trucker, you couldn't be more wrong! When fuel went up, a fuel surcharge was implemented, which helped the companies and owner operators a lot. With fuel down, owner operators are actually making less money per mile, and per load. We are actually spending more out of our pockets for fuel. Seems crazy, but true. Even I was totally surprised by this fact. I keep the books for our business, and was in shock when I put my calculator to it, and did my charts. Biggest problem is while fuel is down, nothing else seems to be coming down, and should. Oh well we continue on, living in our truck, and bringing the food for your family tables.