Anyone else heard this?
 

I heard on the CB and at the sheetrock plant in Duke, Ok that Boyd Bros Transportation has told their drivers, take the truck home, not to the yard, apply for unemployment and contact the office after the first of the year to see if Boyd is going to resume operations or not.

This is SERIOUS and unfortunately I am afraid is only one of the many to come. I have been watching for 3 days now before posting this and have not seen a single Boyd truck on the hiway. I can only with the drivers of Boyd good luck and that all the loads that they will now not be hauling will be picked up by Westar so I can continue to have a job :)

Dag gum. That not sound too good. I havent heard that. Of course, I dont ever see anyone. Not much traffic on HWY 82. :lol: Just the deer and the pigs. :p

The website is still up and running.

I have seen their trucks up and down 75. some loaded, some not. And a couple bobtails.

I passed one today in Illinois that was loaded heading south on I-57. I tried to ask him about it but he didnt have his radio on.

There's one parked about 4 spots down from me with a load on his flatbed.

It would be strange for them to tell the drivers to take their trucks home and apply for unemployment, then call after the first of the year. Any company I know of would want their equipment on their yard.

It does sound rather odd. If they are attempting to reorganize they may not want all of their equipment on the premises.

I was talking to a Boyd Brothers driver the other day as I was taking on fuel, actually. IIRC, he had a load on him. But this was before I read any of this, so of course the question never came up.

Hmmm....a Boyd driver parks at the same business I do on weekends. I noticed his truck was sitting there empty when I left out last Sunday and it's still there now.

I was thinking vacation but......

Do you suppose it is possible that Boyd has the company trucks parked, but are still running their O/O trucks?


In a strange way..that would make sense.

It actually could be any number of things,, CB rumors, could be that they are slow and told a few drivers to do this and that was the one that told the loader I talked to, could be a way to get rid of a few drivers that don't quite cut the mustard, who knows. As for the take the truck to the house, this would make sense if the bank was looking for them. Could well be that they told the sheetrock plant that to get out of a contract. Those sheetrock hauls are a good backhaul in that it pays the fuel but definately doesn't pay real well!
could just be a regional thing, maybe one yard closing???

Again, like I said originally, this was heard from a plant employee at a sheetock plant, almost as reliable a source as CB chatte