Arrow Trucking Company suspended operations yesterday, leaving hundreds of drivers across the country out of work three days before Christmas. [See important updates below!] The decision by officials at the 61-year-old company, once considered one of the country’s largest and most financially-sound flatbed motor carriers, came as a shock to many. “The drivers had no [...]
Trucking Firm Closes Three Days Before Christmas (Update)
December 23rd, 2009 · 7 Comments
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No Joke: Truckers to ‘Shut Down’ April 1
March 28th, 2008 · 16 Comments
One Iowa newspaper reporter describes it as “a small, online grassroots effort (that) now appears to have the potential for something bigger.” That “something bigger” is a threatened nationwide shutdown by independent truck drivers — possibly hundreds of thousands of them — April 1. Though set to take place on April Fools Day, the effort [...]
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