Do Falcon drivers need our help?

To each their own...

No freaking way am I waiting a day or two a few hundred miles away from my home terminal if I have enough fuel, or access to it on their card, after receiving a message like that.

The bankruptcy filing ink is still wet down at the local courthouse and who knows when the trustee will get around to sorting it out.

 

And you know this how? You are just assuming. And if they were out Saturday, they were planning to be out until Monday night anyway. That's simply how their runs work.
They would have, for example, delivered to GM in Flint (I know, I seen a truck there 10 minutes before it was posted to Twisted Trucker last night) They would have gotten empty dunnage and likely went across the street to the Speedway and waited for a 34 to go start Monday morning and get more product for GM.

They don't do spot market. This is how they run. I run the same way (well used to at my last job) It's a very controlled run. There is almost no time from the pickup windows to the delivery windows to play around. 2-4 hours on a Laredo to Flint for example is all the buffer there is. All Falcon has said is sit tight, don't go anywhere and we'll give you more information.
As they were sitting on their 34 anyway, they might as well.

 

I can see waiting a day, but if a guy heads home, what are they going to do fire you. lol

 

Charge you with theft, abandonment, recovery costs, fuel costs, not pay any sick/vacation owed as you will be considered as having quit.

Sure the theft/abandonment is a stretch, but most drivers likely have both sick and vacation days owed. And if they have an out of route policy (all automotive suppliers I've worked for did) they can take that out of your last paycheck.

 

If you took the asset back to the home terminal it's on their property. So how would that be theft or abandonment? LOL. The company is insolvent, man. Those guys will be lucky to even collect their paycheck for last week.

 

Again. You know this how? What is your inside source to their accounting department?

 

The theft is more than a stretch. If you take it back to your home terminal, where presumably your vehicle is parked, any abandonment, recovery costs, fuel costs, etc, etc would be a mute point.
Point of fact, the company apparently is now defunct, pretty much anything they might have done as a company is out the door. Hopefully the drivers will get their last paycheck in a timely matter, but I would not be looking for a ride or a greyhound counting on it. Just my thinking, folks can and will do what they think best.

 

I've already said that. One, at most two days.
They were already down for the weekend anyway. Almost no GM plant works Sunday Wait until Monday, or at the latest Tuesday afternoon before bobtailing home

He said go home. He didn't say go to the terminal....


And yet again, all I'm saying is wait one to two days before doing something potentially stupid.

 

Maybe I am wrong, but don't most of you guys have a vehicle left at the home terminal? I tend to think of that when home is mentioned.