Stevens to disolve entire tanker division next week!

Liquidated.

The equipment is not that valued. It is not cherished. Once a company shuts, dump the fleet into a auction for whatever the market will pay. Along with all of the unresolved problems in many of them.

One would make a case that large buyers of fleets will ship them overseas to Africa. Strip the emissions crap and resell them at a profit in bulk. Put em on a ship and off they go bye bye. Africa will love to have them.

Don't worry about the 600 plus newbies graduating school. Eventually trucking will consume those bodies and next years graduates as well. It is the one industry that goes through drivers faster than our own Military does in battle or actual warfare with another nation. They go through alot of "Replacements" in the form of new school graduates.

If you want to stop the Trucking in America just shut off the source of graduates and wait a year. There will not be enough drivers (*One company I was with I hired on at bottom of roster, number 229 or something. 6 months later I was number 32 of 236. Everyone at 24 and below were newhires in that time period. Replacements.

The company eventually went out of business.) I was already employed elsewhere.

 

In the trucking industry this is why you are a professional driver. You have endorsements for just this reason.

Tank
Doubles- Triples
Haz-Mat

Dont put your eggs into one basket unless you have a fall back plan.

 

Those 600 drivers won't even be a blip on the radar.
Your opportunities haven't changed a bit.

 

That's not 600 drivers,
You got Dispatchers, office personal
Mechanics

 

Where you are at , tanker jobs are everywhere , with all endorsement along with twic and passport, you will have no issues finding a good company.stevens is a big box truck company , they got into tanks for the $$ , money made business is slow , now they cut the waste and got out of tanks .I did box for 3 months hated it , that was six years ago , been pulling a tank ever since . My advice if you want to pull tanks , go-to a tank only company, start making connections now .

 

Considering there is something of the order of 3.5 million truck drivers in the US, you are looking at about 0.014% of the total driver population looking for work (the 600 number includes office staff, so I went with 500 drivers). So to put it simply, about 0.14 drivers for every 1000 in the industry.