can you imagine all the other flatbed companies are rubbing there hands together thinking there's been a 1000 experinced flatbed drivers dumped on the job market and looking for a new job.

 

I drove that brown truck for 32 years...(and I wore the short's too....) It was a good gig. But, it wasn't perfect and I still don't miss the constant micromanagement...Now that the holiday "push" is over, I fully expect Brown to be in the news claiming that they didn't have a good year and some more feeder guys will be laid off...

 

and i was just thinking of switching from tank to flatbed (with 4 years exp.) but i think i better hold off, and watch from a distance.:eek2:

 

The owner of Arrow Trucking's Address and phone number Doug pielsticker 3032 Trenton ave so. Tulsa Oklahoma 918-712-1006

 

Right on brother! They should empty the truckstop there in Tulsa and have a convoy past Pielstickers house! That dog probably lives on a no commercial veihicles over 10,000 lbs. street though. Good to see there are drivers with balls still in this world! Amen!:thumbsup:

 

Great line. Very funny.

 

So drive all the Arrow trucks over there and park them in the street and let them be towed.

 

If you are like most drivers, especially flatbedders, you have some gear you don't want to lose. Unless I was 2,000 miles away I would figure out which was cheaper, buying enough fuel out of my own pocket to get home or buying a plane/bus ticket. In an empty flatbed you should be able to get 7-8 mpg easy I would think. At $2.50/gal $250 bucks buys 100gal which, with the fuel in the truck should get you 1,000 miles or so. I would also figure on driving to my house not the yard if it was more than 50 miles or so away and someone could come and get me.

 

Chicks dig the shorts. If you get them just right you can look like Lt. Jim Dangle on Reno 911. If UPS were in the same boat I'm not sure I would leave. A lot of these guys have union pensions. Pension plans vary, but you have to have 5 years in mine to get fully vested. Also, if I put 25 years in I can retire and start collecting day 1 I leave, but if I quit before that time I can't collect unitil I'm 65 and then its only a fraction of what I would get if I stay the full 25 years. Lose a lot if you quit, so ride it out and hope something good can happen.

At least they won't lose their pension. May not get a full pension if they don't have all the years in, but they'll get something. If they can get on at another union company then they can continue to add years for a full pension. Union plans aren't controlled by the company and they can't rob them.

Look out I think YRC (Yellow Freight) may be the next big company to go down. I've talked with a few of their drivers and it looks bad. Most are hanging out because of their pensions.

 

I'm with you on that one. Thats exactly what I would have done. I was listening to Sirius last night and a team from Arrow was on. They had a load and were in Dallas on the way to Laredo. Got a message on Qualcom to call the number and did to find out they were out a job. They called the company to ask what to do with the load and the Jacka**es had the nerve to tell them to deliver it. You have to be joking.