Last one for 2019?

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  1. blairandgretchen

    blairandgretchen Road Train Member

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  3. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    That is crazy . Seems all these companies is 300 trucks or less. Makes me worried, company im with is about 200 trucks and freight is unusually slow with them right now. Maybe time to throw in the towel
     
  4. The Biggest Dawg

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    They had 29 crashes with 2 fatal.
     
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  5. Bigrayon

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    Stop hiring no good drivers that should not be out here in the first place, I am with great wide and they are not prefect but you will not be running here if you are making a fool of your self on the road, dart also is one I work at before same thing you doing stupid things out there not job, Klb breeden also work for them before, many years back they was a little don’t do that again, but you do what you should not be doing your out, yes insurance company are laying down the law and most of them,
     
  6. 201

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    Tip of the iceberg, folks. "We're on a highway to hell",,,
     
  7. Badmon

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    Wonder what 2020 has in store.......
     
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  8. Studebaker Hawk

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    The stats in the article tell the story. Out of service rate for vehicles well above industry average, lots of DOT reportable accidents.
    This management has reacted to the lower and lower rate structure by not maintaining the equipment and hiring shakier and shakier drivers, a deadly combination, culminating in the death of a motorist and paralyzing of her passenger.
    The effect is that an insurance company made the decision to put things in motion to stop this irresponsible carrier.
    It should have been the FMCSA.
    Many more will die and get injured at the altar of "free shipping". And the heavy regulations designed to prevent them are wholly ineffective.
     
  9. 201

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    Yeah, and that's BEFORE the new 50% drug testing takes effect. $50 to$70 MILLION more these carriers are going to have to cough up. I tell ya' we ain't seen nothing yet. All I can say, is in the near future, you drivers better have an ace in the hole. These companies pulling the plug with little notice. As old timers, we can look at the big picture here, we've seen a lot, and this stuff tells me, a meltdown is around the corner, we've seen it before, not to this extent, however.
     
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  10. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Fleetwood was for many years affiliated with Dart. I had a friend that was with Fleetwood back in the mid 90s. Fleetwood ran a lot of 57 ft dry vans then.

    And with all of these companies closing, we still have over capacity in this industry. Just too many available trucks.
     
  11. bzinger

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    You mean fleetline .
     
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