“We’re also asking them to call us once they get home safely.”įMCSA said that Arrow Trucking has filed for bankruptcy protection, but everyone who talked to TT said they have yet to see any public statements by Arrow officials.
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“We’re also ready to take phone calls from stranded drivers to help them,” Taylor said. The site had more than 5,700 members on Dec. “We decided the fastest way to help them was to set up a Facebook page to connect Arrow drivers and people willing to assist them, named ‘Support for Stranded Arrow Drivers,’” Taylor said. “Arrow drivers were stranded all over the country with suddenly invalid fuel cards,” OOIDA spokeswoman Norita Taylor told TT. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association took similar action. Nearly 40 companies said they were willing to hire Arrow employees. 28, OTA put a page on its Web site to help Arrow drivers and other employees get home or find work. “Steve Savage, an Arrow vice president who’s also on the board of the Oklahoma Trucking Association, called me to say that they were closing, but he didn’t give a reason why, or whether it was permanent,” Case told TT. Pielsticker is extremely saddened by what has happened and the terrible impact it has had on Arrow employees and Arrow itself.”Ĭalls to Sturdivant by TT were not returned by press time.ĭan Case, executive director of the Oklahoma Trucking Association, of which Arrow is a member, said he had seen no public announcement of the company’s plans. “It is a very unfortunate and awful situation, and we’re trying to figure out what to do,” Sturdivant told the newspaper. 29 with James Sturdivant, the lawyer of Carol Pielsticker, owner of Arrow and mother of CEO Douglas Pielsticker.
The Tulsa World newspaper published an interview Dec. No reason for the statements was given, nor did the message tell drivers that Arrow had suspended operations. Drivers of Navistar Inc.’s International trucks were told to call back later for further information. 22, about 200 employees at Arrow’s headquarters in Tulsa, Okla., were told that the company was suspending operations and were sent home immediately, the Tulsa World newspaper reported.Īll company telephone numbers on its Web site that Transport Topics called had a recorded message telling company drivers who had Freightliner or Kenworth trucks to drive to the nearest dealership, where they would receive a bus ticket home. “It’s shocking how Arrow has handled this situation by not making any public statements and basically stranding their drivers and loads around the country,” Wayne Johnson, highway transportation chairman of the National Industrial Transportation League, told Transport Topics. Several organizations launched efforts to help drivers and shippers. safe and orderly transfer.”įMCSA’s order cited “the threat to public safety posed by the potential abandonment, or improper parking of, and/or lack of attendance to, over 1,000 commercial motor vehicles around the United States, some of which may be carrying hazardous material.” 24, saying that the company must tell drivers to take trucks to “appropriate facilities for. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued an “Emergency Order” Dec. 22, shutting off its fuel cards and leaving an unknown number of drivers for its 1,400 trucks stranded around the country, industry and federal officials have said.
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