Former CEO of Arrow Trucking Co, James Douglas “Doug” Pielsticker, is free from federal prison after serving just over half his sentence. While his appeal for “compassionate release” was denied, Pielsticker will be able to serve the rest of his sentence in the comfort of his own home.
The story of Arrow Trucking and Doug Pielsticker is infamous in the trucking community. Just three days before Christmas in 2009, the company closed its doors without warning, stranding hundreds of drivers all over the country. After a joint FBI/IRS investigation, Pielsticker was arrested and charged with multiple counts of fraud.
Pielsticker took a plea deal in 2015, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, and ordered to pay $22 million. After pleas for leniency were denied in February of 2018 and other former Arrow execs went to prison as well, things were mostly quiet.
But then came COVID-19. On April 3rd, Pielsticker’s attorneys asked a judge to release him from prison or send him to home confinement. According to Tulsa World, a judge denied his request on April 14th stating that he had not met the requirements. Despite that however, prison officials approved Pielsticker’s release due to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the prison.
According to Tulsa World, at least 467 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Fort Worth, Texas prison where Pielsticker was being held. At least four inmates have died from the virus.
Pielsticker will be subject to home confinement until May 23rd, 2021, two years less than what he was sentenced to. He will also serve three years of supervised release and will still need to pay $22 million in restitution.
Source: tulsaworld, freightwaves
He will never pay the 22 . So i would take everything he owned and sell it .
How does he even have a home to go to he should be striped of any home he owned or was transferred in to his wife’s name and any bank accounts
Take everything he owns but give him an old beat up mobile home and a bicycle to serve out the rest of his time. Put him on work release as a greeter at Walmart.
In my lifetime, I will never earn $2 million – likely, not even $1 million. 22 consecutive life sentences seems a more appropriate sentence, in that light…
Yall are just mean to this poor man.
He should have only done community service as far as I’m concerned.
Guess he didn’t screw you, did he?
Do you drive? If so tell me how you would feel being left in Fargo north Dakota with no fuel no money and no way to get anywhere? Times every driver? Let’s say he had 500 thats 500 wives mothers fathers kids whose lives were damaged let alone financially or emotionally harmed. Then after 12 people considered that ya im sure community service was on the table. Be real
What a POS he is. He will never pay anything…Hope his soul rots in Hell. That’s where he should be serving his light sentence.
He deserves to go to heaven.
he deserves to go to hell….we all do but Jesus saves question is will he repent if not he’ll it is
U should,live,with him and watch tv on ure 29 in tv
what the hell is wrong with you are you part of his family or something
What happened? Did the criminal in Chief pardon him too?
Shows your ignorance
Read the article dude.
no he can’t pardon anyone he’s too busy hiding how he ordered a criminal investigation into our president
If the Russian fits.
Russians??
WTF
He shouldn’t have had any money left to pay an attorney to file the appeal. He should’ve had to pay the $22,000,000.00 before he was released.
They always have money left hidden.
Real live piece of crap right there
Only difference between him and the next guy was that he got caught. Let him be, he don’t make you. He’ll have to answer for his actions one day. eff him.
Amen Brother…they get to Do their Crime Then Run Home…Crooks that they ARE
He should serve the rest of his sentence in a sleeper cab.
A constantly moving sleeper cab. The kind that breaks down in a snow storm. His only meals are Snickers from Love’s truck stops. He only gets one shower per week. No home time until he pays the $22 Million.
Dam you might want to find a better company to drive for, if that’s what you’re use too!
LMFAO
In -34 degrees with no fuel to idle
In a day cab would be better
Small sleeper like coffin size
Find an R-Model Mack or a Ford 9000 for him to try to sleep in.
What do you have against a L-9000? I use to run one, and loved it.
This country needs to be distroyed , turned to rubble , that”s what i think , and i will deem it so . Can’t waite for those automated trucks to take over .
Socialism is wonderful isn’t it comrade
That’s the future you want for your kids and grandkids? Pretty stupid thing to say.
what a totally moronic thing to say when you can not spell.
so Walter I guess you don’t care that driving a truck is a living hmm definitely not a truck driver
The $22 million in restitution is largely ceremonial. You can’t get blood from a stone and a snowball has a better chance in hell than Pielsticker paying a cent of that. He has already moved his assets to family members and offshore accounts under assumed names a looooong time ago and declared personal bankruptcy as all white collar criminals do. Rest assured, his attorney’s were paid though! POS!
All of the activities your mentioning are illegal completely traceable and recindable and will be pursued. The only way to hide his assets is to convert to cash and bury it. Simple fact is the 22 is put there to prevent him from being in busy or profiting ever again as the irs will follow any financial deal he is involved in for the rest of his life. They will take it. However its safe to say that if giving up your freedom and your open liberty to pursue anything the rest of your life is worth a little cash go for it
he can still make deals and crap he will do it under a different name watch
Who says crime doesn’t pay???
I do.
Like those at FedEx Ground, most of them out of the prison. Well, is the crimes a good deal now? I guess so.
What happened with FedEx ground?
243 tractors from 40 companies impounded last year, Fedex
Ground employees arrested, charged with bribery. Fedex SLC,was ghost town, Hudson,Co. ,about the same.
Hauled doubles loaded to SLC, M/T returns to Hudson.November/December 2019.
Some familiar faces went missing at both locations,
Nothing new under the sun, rich are protected, justice is not served.
glad i quit Arrow trucking a year before this shit started. they tried to force me to come back from vacation early.they said if i didnt pick up the load they had for me .i would be concidered quiting my job and abbandoning my truck…(In my driveway lmfao)
Well that’s what y’all wanted. I don’t see anyone doing anything about it. Except sitting there with their teeth in their mouths.
Walter is an idiot!! Autonomous trucks will kill hundreds of 1,000,000s of Americans!! The courts will make him pay the 22m$ if he doesn’t they will send him back to prison and he will never complete his sentence let alone live a normal life!! Try dicking the judicial system out of money and they will take your underwear and your socks!! Leave you in the streets naked!! His house courts will sell any cars sold anything worth value sold!! They will get theirs!!! Walter stop being antiAmerican and antiTrucking!! Real people support their families on these highways!! What a moron smh
I wonder if he turned queer or was turned queer
I guess white collar crime does pay.
Really Phillip,
I was one of those driver’s he stranded out there. He still.owes me quite a bit of money. I knew driver’s that were buying trucks from him. Seven and a half wasn’t even long enough. He should have gotten life at least. Not to mention the fact that his mother owned the company, and what he did to her.
oh wow I didn’t know the company wasn’t even in his name but his mothers what a dirt bag to do his momma like that
This peckerhead got out this early after screwing all those drivers over like he did. He should have been begging to be kept in prison. Not to hard for an x employee he screwed over that is flaming pissed to find out were he lives.
What did he do to you?
if it was me he left abandoned and without a job 3 days before Christamas I would find out where he lives and get my justice. As far as I’m concerned his whole family is quilty because they benefited from his crime and should have known trucking doesnt pay that good to live a life like they were.
He didnt care about anyone elses family, screw his.
He should have to pay the monies fined before going home. What’d he do ? Buy the Warden ?
Lol @ y’all getting worked up over Philip. He is just a troll, and not even a very good one.
He not only screwed His drivers and their families…He screwed many Vendors including Truck repair and Tire folks all over the Country…Sounds like a lot of you posters thinking He had enough time probably just crossed the river and have NO clue the Damage He caused.
amen
He need to be sentence to community service as a Yard Jock… Til his hourly wage would have Net the millions he owes..
You STUPID truck drivers deserve it. The industry should have unionized 50 years ago. Now you have truck drivers work 24 Hours OTR for 0.30 a mile, take home pay of $350. Brokers went from 5%, to 90% takes. The entire trucking industry screwed the drivers Because you don’t want to unionize. So expect to continue getting screwed.
The union companies folded a long time ago. Only a couple left and won’t be long until they’re out to. When I heard what ABF is paying and benefits package, I’m amazed they’re still around. YRC will probably be next to sink. I agree with you though, drivers just keep licking there wounds and bitch about it, not standing up for fair wages.
If you think C-19 scared America, watch the panic when trucks stop for a couple days.
The industry can’t fire everyone at the same time can they!
And look at YRW now. They did the same thing. Suddenly closed and ran with folks money.
Sounds like jimmy Hoffa from the grave
Autonomous trucks aren’t eligible for collective bargaining.
So we should get screwed by a union rather than the industry? I’ve never held a union card or paid a penny in dues in my 35 years as a driver and I REFUSE to start now. I enjoy being a free man and NOT renting my job from another corrupt organization.
I still never received my last 2 paychecks from them,I wish he would of contacted the virus and suffered
Agree !!!! D O
Old boy in Texas was lucky enough to have enough fuel in his Arrow tractor to get it home..
He used a rope and tied it off the bumper to a “subbing” post..
By Texas law..if it’s on your property..and you tie it off..
It’s yours until the owner claims it..and pays any damages..
He got his money..then untied the truck for the wrecker .
Was supposed to be a “snubbin” post
He owes me $7,000.00 and a truck but if he was truly sorry for what he had done then he would try to make restitution somehow to the people that he owes it to but he want do that cause all he cares about is getting out of prison he doesnt care about the people he hurt and ruined if you read this I understand how you got caught up in the money I just don’t understand how you could turn your back on the people that had your back you need to try and make some kind of payback and do the best you can if your truly sorry.
Putting this POS on home confinement, sucks, a few families lost everything, including their homes, so why should he be able to go home?
Awaiting moderation? lol then don’t ask us post…perhaps you should run a board about bunnies or something..real people got hurt here. What you want? Oh dang, he got us? I hope he’s gonna pay us someday? hahaha. Wasted enough time on him, and this whole deal. Print it ….dont print it..who will care anyways?????? YOU???
Be nice if he walked infront of a bus
Every mega fleet is run exactly the same way. They are all unfunded floats with burlesque like financial antics employed at every turn to prop them up.
After all drivers, once they make us believe there are 8 days in the week, thinking to change the times and seasons, then there is no limit to the chicanery.
There is an obscure 7 day 60 hour rule that nobody uses anymore, I’m mildly surprised it wasn’t removed and reserved along with the agriculture section of the handbook.
Drivers, the commercial world would prefer you not know where the gate on trucking is. It will be much better if you know nothing except drive the truck. That’s what custom cut does, it just drives. It doesn’t learn, it doesn’t think, it rarely takes action outside its enclosure. Mostly, it just gets beaten down and whipped so that it will not dare to peer at the sky and wonder if there might be other things out there besides trucks. You are being led to castigate one CEO, and they are all rotten. A former Arrow CEO is not a fitting sacrament ,it’s time to get rid of all of them, permanently.
nothing better said here!
She what most of you either don’t know or remember is that his mother owned the company. He just worked for his mother as the CEO. He stole that 22 million from his mom and bankrupted her. Plus screwed over all the driver’s. Arrow was the largest flat bed company in the country at that time. If I remember correctly he had over a thousand driver’s. Plus the office people who worked there.
Heard he also screwed factoring companies. Sent in fake bills which factoring company paid , for a while.