Bring truck home empty (870 miles) company is shutting down

That sucks ecspecially so close to christmas. Why is is all the companies I hear of folding and laying off is always around Christmas time? I got laid off around xmas once thats when I started driving.

 

well companies like mine in the freight biz have distinct seasons... our busy season has ended and the less senior guys are getting laid off...

then when freight picks up in april they get called back...

when I had my own truck - and ran produce there was no slow season...

some parts of trucking are meters of the economy too... if goods and products are not being bought then they are not being produced THUS no need to transport anything THUS slower trucking...

hauling food or base commodity stays pretty constant - because we all have to eat on a regular right?

 

" hauling food or base commodity stays pretty constant - because we all have to eat on a regular right?"

That is what I thought when I was laid off automotive at Thanksgiving, 1974. I then leased to a refrigerated outfit. It turns out that everyone else had the same idea. There were too many trucks hauling groceries. There was no incentive to raise the rates. There were long layovers and deadheads. Pulling a reefer is not a way to survive a recession. I would have been better off drawing unemployment.

 

I would try Walmart or Frito lay. Both have excellent pay and benefits. If your an ltl guy check on Jevic or New Century. These companies all have excellent oppurtunities as do the union ltl's. Take a deep breath and move on. Just try and make an informed decision and compare all the aspects of a job before "jumping" into something you may regret.

 

dunno where you live in indiana - but hailing from the richmond area myself I know a lot of truckload companies around there that pay fairly well...

are you opposed to local work?

I know my company in chicago hts. is hiring teams (west coast boomerangs - home friday night through sunday night) ((northern indiana area))

Indy is not hiring - (and it is a hog board - takes a few years to get up to speed) ((central indiana area))

ABF in dayton will be hiring soon ... ((eastern indiana area))

and we will be hiring like mad in cincinnati next spring and summer. (( we have a lot of guys that live south of richmond - east of indy))

 

Tell you what we just put on your DAC abandon/stolen truck. That's the end of your career. Read the post again .... bring the truck home. If they are closing and your holding onto a lease truck the lease company is coming after you but not until they ruin you career.

Hopefully this company is worth their salt and he'll see a last paycheck.

 

look up cowan systems the company is based in baltimore but they run out of indy and where i am from in Portland IN