Arrow Trucking reportedly closes its doors

Are you home? If so, how'd you get there? I bet you're tossing back a few longnecks after that ordeal huh?

 

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no actually due to a troubled relationship i dont technically have a home but i got the freightliner dealer to drive me to the bus stop and went to a friends house. ill figure this crap out after christmas. no i cant afford to be tossin back anything but water my check last week went entirely on gifts so i have 18 dollars in my account.

 

ha ha top notch canadian equipment? i have seen just as many canadian heaps as i have mexican and american heaps out there. name and dot number written on poster board duck taped to the side of the cab like the containers in chicago lol.

 

Top notch for sure. When they issued me my fuel cards and box of duct tape it wasn't the cheap stuff.

 

Most Canadian trucks ARE top notch, just as American trucks. Mexican trucks are a much different story for sure. Let's not assume that when we see a couple of heaps out on the road that all trucks are like that ok?

 

Ouch! Hope next year is better for you driver! Good luck (somebody get this man a beer)!

 

That's pretty much the impression that I'm getting, the more I read about Arrow - they'd pretty much used up all their lines of credit, and they weren't going to get any additional credit.

I've never had any dealing with Freightliner/Mercedes-Benz Finance - I wonder how many months a company would have to be in arrears to them for F/M-B to begin repossessing equipment?

Hillbilly Highway made a good point above - Arrow didn't just wake up Monday morning, and decide to play the modern-day version Ebenezer Scrooge for Christmas 2009. IMHO - It's like a volcano that's been getting ready to blow for quite some time, and it finally erupted.

 

You probably did, I was talkin' to a couple of guys that I was runnin' with about it.

 

I think you both are right...the man ultimately in charge ran it to the end with NO intention of making a planned shutdown.....and thus skirted around the 60 day notice by creating a situation of fiscal collapse ......running the machine till it can't run no more basically and in so doing totally divesting the mechanics that make the machine run.....