I worked for Swift when this happened. We got a message on our Qualcomm units that we were authorized to transport any Arrow Trucking driver with us if it would help them. I gave one driver a ride (about 600 miles) and bought him a bus ticket for the rest of the trip. Also gave him $60 cash for food. Never seen a grown man cry before. Don't want to see it again. Glad I could help him though. Craig, if you read this, hope you're doing well bud! Russ, Swift truck 11218
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
That's awesome that you were able to help a fellow driver!!
@ni1469
Жыл бұрын
I’ve got a whole new respect for swift after a short stent driving for western regents and reading this makes them a more respectable company and also hats off to you for your contribution that sort of camaraderie is getting more and more rare these days
@teresaj27
4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for helping the "watermelon"! I worked there from 2001-2004. I have a friend that still worked there at the time but she worked with the trailers at that time. What a mess. I always like driving for them! It was sad what happened.
@jeffreycoon9634
3 ай бұрын
That’s awesome of you to have done that. But it’s a sad world we live in for the opportunity to be there.
@toddnash7194
Жыл бұрын
I remember this. The drivers were selling straps binders and anything else to get home. Alot of other drivers were giving them rides going that deriction. My cousin hired 3 of them on the spot at petro joplin. Had 2 of our drivers pick them up on way back to Dallas. He was going north. We put them up while they cleared drug test and dmv. They still work for him today.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
It's great to know that some of these drivers found a good company to work for.
@johnkennedy1750
Жыл бұрын
I was hired and fired all in a week in 2009 I had to find a way home .
@tedecker3792
Жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@aviatortrucker6285
Жыл бұрын
I remember when I worked from long before they told him you had a buy most of your tiedown equipment. Whoever heard of working for a flatbed company that would make you buy your load securement and tools?
@thomaskirkpatrick4031
Жыл бұрын
This happens more than we like to talk about. The father builds a company over years of blood, sweat and tears, for what ever the reason the kids get a hold of it and run it into the ground.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I agree, it happens a lot!!
@jamesjoslin7586
Жыл бұрын
Typical
@arufai
Жыл бұрын
Yap like superior carriers
@RJ1999x
Жыл бұрын
So if we are being honest, it's actually the parents fault, they raised the monsters, they know how they are
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
@@RJ1999x I think sometimes parents are blind to it or at least wearing blinders.
@davejohnson5479
Жыл бұрын
I drove for Arrow in 1993 for my first OTR trucking job. There was always freight to haul. Lumber, military equipment, and oil field pipe and equipment. They did have good maintenance on the equipment back then. Good video, tragic story.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Very tragic and didn't have to happen!!
@user-pb6ty9ds9o
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video
@brandonhirst5940
Жыл бұрын
Me too in 1999 first trucking job. Out of Fontana Ca yard
@davejohnson5479
Жыл бұрын
@@brandonhirst5940 I too worked out of the Fontana sand pit yard doing Los Angeles work between long haul loads. I'm sure that I wasn't compensated in full, yet it was a good learning experience.
@dodgeboy90501
Жыл бұрын
Remember that when it happened. The company I worked for authorized us to give drivers a ride if need be. Matter of fact, the last flatbed company I worked for now occupies Arrows yard in Tulsa.
@justbe4481
Жыл бұрын
It's a part of a windmill plant now . I live just east of the old yard .
@scottjones1497
Жыл бұрын
I remember this. I gave one of those guys a ride. It was all over the CB. I was really impressed how truckers rose up to help there fello driver. Company’s with no rider policy even opened up for these guys.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
It was a sad situation but it was a great reminder of the brotherhood that is still out here although we don't see it like we used to!!
@AndrewNoel-nc9fx
Жыл бұрын
I was there from 2008 to 2009 and stranded in Houston in the Baytown area with drill pipe. I took the truck home and kept it for 3 years. They owed me $5,000+
@taylor11089
Жыл бұрын
That’s the way to do it! Got to have leverage on them! Did you have to Fuel Up with your Own Money to get home? How did it finally work out with the truck? Did you get paid and they take the truck back? What happened with the Drill Pipe? Did you unload before you left Baytown Tx & Deadhead home?
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Sorry that happened to you. I believe I would have been in the truck parts business!!
@jasoncody1537
Жыл бұрын
Should have put a lean on the and got a title and kept the truck
@jmoneill3
Жыл бұрын
I would have parted it out and scrapped the rest. I have no idea where your truck is. I left it on the side of the road
@stoneymcdoobie5270
Жыл бұрын
Got to blame the father too. If he'd instilled him with some worth ethic, and didn't coddle him like most rich parents do it may not have turned out the way it did.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I definitely agree with that!!
@johnwhorton3683
Жыл бұрын
That's what's wrong with Trump.
@kennethboyer2338
10 ай бұрын
@johnwhorton3683 What's your basis for that comment? Also why are you turning this tragic story into a political one?
@docBZA
9 ай бұрын
@@kennethboyer2338the Trump story is basically a mirror of this one, except one run a company into the ground while the other tries to run a country into the ground
@thomasdaniels6824
8 ай бұрын
@@docBZA What? The country was great with Trump as President, hes still a billionaire, will be president again and its not his kids who got addicted to drugs. Trump took millions and turned it into billions. Your Msnbc/cnn educated brain needs some "real education."
@rodedawg77
Жыл бұрын
You know it was bad when nobody in the comment section is blaming the demise of the company on "greedy workers"
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. From what I hear, at one point this was a great workforce.
@rodedawg77
Жыл бұрын
@@truckingresources4240 I broke down in Ely, NV once, and the tow truck had to come all the way from Vegas to get me. He said he drove for Arrow back when the old man ran it and was telling me all about what happened when the kid took over. It really was a great company in the earlier years.
@donlankford4315
Жыл бұрын
You mean greedy management... look at the pay they received.. but yet you blame the workers..
@rodedawg77
Жыл бұрын
@@donlankford4315 I was being sarcastic, hence the quotes
@robertsise7898
Жыл бұрын
I worked for Arrow in 99 and 2000. Great company, then. I hated to see what happened to the company. Always good freight when I was there.
@ChrisHarding-lk3jj
Жыл бұрын
Back in the mid 2000s my cousin was driving for a company and the the company suddenly went out of business and he was stranded. I ending up helping him and came up with a plan. My cousin was driving a 3 month old Freightliner century class so I called another cousin of our who lived not far away and asked if we could use his barn for a couple days. That company owned freightliner lost it's 12.7 Detroit and 13 speed trans along with most wiring and of course the rear axles. My cousin borrowed money from a family member and purchased a glider from Freightliner and we transferred everything over. So my cousin became a owner operator and now owns his own small fleet.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
LOL that's a great story. Thanks for sharing!!
@Dawg7227
Жыл бұрын
Awesome LARP.
@keithallen8543
Жыл бұрын
I used to drive for Arrow back in 2001-2002. Was working there when the owner died. It sure didn't take long for the kids to run it down in the ground
@jmoneill3
Жыл бұрын
It never does
@jacobsmithjr
Жыл бұрын
The parents meant well but when wealthy parents indulge their children this was bound to happen.
@IceManHighPerformance
Жыл бұрын
I drove for Arrow from 7/2007 to 7/2009. They were my first trucking job. I got out just in time before they folded.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you got out!!
@Brett235
Жыл бұрын
I remember very well when that happened. I was headed home after delivering some construction equipment to a job sight of the company I worked for at the time. I stopped by Kelly's truck stop in Shreveport and there was a guy in the restaurant that was needing a ride to Little Rock where he lived. He said that he worked for Arrow and he was stranded. His truck was in the parking lot out of fuel. I bought him a hamburger and gave him a ride to Texarkana where his wife picked him up. He was very distraught because it was right there at Christmas and he was broke. A very sad time in deed. Thanks for the video.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
It's awesome that you were able to help him!!
@movistarz
Жыл бұрын
I started over the road in 2008 I remember when arrow went down. Drivers were stranded with fuel cards turned off. Some took their trucks home. I'm still driving but been local since 2011, and I seen a arrow trailer last week in ftw TX they had trailers you would always recognize. Big steel and green. It was the talk of the nation back then.
@gazzman2631
Жыл бұрын
Great video, I worked for Arrow back in the late 90's. Everything said about Jim P. was all true, he was an outstanding man to work for. I quit there in 2000 to work local. Not nearly enough bad was said about Dougie, we all knew he was an absolute POS. We used to lament the fact that one day, Jim would retire and Dougie would be handed the reigns. (Didn't work out with J. B. Hunt's boy either, iir) I seem to recall it was Maury that had been fired by Jim prior to his passing for being shady, and not long after Dougie took over, he brought him back. Glad I was out at that point.
@RobertRobert-fl1bf
Жыл бұрын
Ye s i worked there in the n 90 s after the son took over all i ran into was on lie after another .the only job i told to wait in Denver 4 days for a load in 19 years as a driver ended up getting a cheap load of hay from southern Colorado to Dublin Tx then dead headed to Houston i quit then another company hired me back the next day .
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the story. I'm sorry you had to put up with that but I'm glad you got out!!
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
@@RobertRobert-fl1bf I'm glad you got out in time!!
@augustharlacher5660
Жыл бұрын
Great video! You did a hell of a job explaining everything. I remember when that happened, freight still in trailers, some drivers kept the trucks hidden in places.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the compliment. It was a horrible situation in trucking!!
@brandoncherry1651
Жыл бұрын
I worked next door to a freightliner dealership man those arrow trucks took the parking lot over
@Bellyupandbored
Жыл бұрын
Same thing happened with Roseway back in the 80's They tried to leave us drivers scattered all over the country.
@briang.persersr.1169
Жыл бұрын
I had drove for Arrow from 2000 to 2003. Dad was a great boss. Son broke it down.
@teresaj27
4 ай бұрын
I worked there during that time period. I had my daughter with me in the truck
@kentswearengin75
Жыл бұрын
I worked for Arrow in the early '90s. In the 3 years I was there I only saw Daddy Jim once, and the only reason I knew who he was is because when he walked through the operation center everybody started acting like they were busy. His office door was open but he was never in it. Dougie did actually sorta work there, He was the stereotypical frat boy. They tried him out in operations, put him in maintenance even. The last I knew of him, he was in the wash bay. In the time I was there I don't think I ever got the extra pay for hauling an oversized load on the next pay check I would always have to call payroll and remind them of the extra pay and they would tell me "Oh we just don't know how that happened."
@williamtanaka9712
Жыл бұрын
I had forgotten about this. My company along with others were told to watch for Arrow drivers that may need a ride
@drjohnsonhungwell5115
Жыл бұрын
I remember them and Builders Transport back in the day when I drove OTR the company I drove for Burlington Motor Carriers also went under years ago .
@George-dy3pt
Жыл бұрын
Everyone forgot about Burlington motor carriers
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
@@George-dy3pt I forgot about them too but now they are on my list for a story!!
@scotttabor4936
Жыл бұрын
I worked there, his dad was great
@Urziel99
Жыл бұрын
I remember the fall of Arrow, My company was telling us to give them rides to a terminal or to have them call a number they set up to get the drivers home. I also recall Freightliner offering the drivers a 300 dollar bounty and a bus ticket for turning in the truck at a dealer. I also remember the 31 page RICO indictment against the C-suite for fraud in their factoring arrangement.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
You are totally right. Isn't that crazy? Rico is usually used for way higher crime people than this guy lol!!
@Urziel99
Жыл бұрын
@@truckingresources4240 Yeah typically used against the mob, but it doesn't take much when you are running two sets of books like they were.
@muffs55mercury61
Жыл бұрын
I remember this sad event. So sad that one person could ruin a good company but it wasn't the first or the last time. I knew someone who worked there and when their fuel cards were shut off he decided that it was cheaper to buy a bus ticket from Miami to Tulsa and be done with it (fuel was around $5 a gallon or more in 2009) I hear Melton which is another flatbed carrier out of Oklahoma hired some of the Arrow drivers as well as Maverick out of Arkansas. When a CEO doesn't want to mix with the people who give him a paycheck then that person needs to go.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
You are 100% correct. This was a horrible situation!!
@icewormproductions7826
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I was around when all this happened,my boss was buying arrow trailers and selling them to companies in Mexico. And then Some people in the Arrow office got together and started another trucking company and bought out the little company I was working for. I dropped off the 379 I was driving and a XL step stretch in Tulsa.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
There was some talk about that in the book!!
@charlesbrooks6219
Жыл бұрын
I worked for them from February 2002 til the fall in 2009. It was a good company up until 2007. I was fortunate enough to be close to home when they closed the door.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you got home ok!!
@markdanielczyk944
Жыл бұрын
Wow! Sounds very similar to my employer, revolving door, equipment not being repaired, no tires, boss fired from last job for falsifying paperwork, hostile work environment. Fortunately the paychecks are still there. Thirty years in, how much more can I take?
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry you are going through this!!
@akbychoice
Жыл бұрын
Saw one of their drivers in Alaska, he had a load to Alaska and was all smiles till he found out there aren’t many loads leaving Alaska. Cost him a bundle to get home.
@georgewilson1184
Жыл бұрын
I do remember Aarow I recall their recruitment ads in those little handbooks you use to get at the truckstops they had some very successful new comers in the business like the Man that made handcrafted boots from Texas he was so proud of his accomplishment to learn a new trade and go to work driving for Arrow Trucking maybe follow up on some of those people
@davidhopper4433
Жыл бұрын
Interesting story on Arrow. I was an employee of another transportation story that started the same way with the founder passing away. This company was rock solid very financially sound with many employees and owner operators and company equipment with several terminals. After the founder passed away. The people left in charge plugged in the young son without transportation experience whom was fresh out of school. He was only a figure head. This move seemed to not be the correct move business wise. Then the two son in-laws took over making unwise financial decisions. Changing the long standing company name. They went on a buying spree with purchasing other transportation companies. Within a few short years the company merged with two other companies. This company didn’t make it and it was sold to another carrier. A proud company that once was, was no more. Very sad.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Could you please tell me what company this was. You don't have to put it on here. You can email me at finchresources@gmail.com. Thank you for the story!!
@bertrutledge4546
Жыл бұрын
I live about 60 miles west of Tulsa and remember when they shut down and the drivers were struggling to get home anyway possible. They seemed like a good company until dad died. Thanks for sharing.
@vistalite-ph4zw
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video, a lot of insight to what happened to Arrow. I knew they folded but didn't know exactly what happened. They had a flatbed division and I believe a dry van division. Unbelievable, he single handedly ran that business into the ground.....😒
@vistalite-ph4zw
Жыл бұрын
@@RebelDan Oh ok, do you know why they got rid of the dry vans??
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
It was an amazing and horrible story. I felt so bad for those drivers when it happened!!
@biohazard_613
10 ай бұрын
They had tankers too.
@stvandy1
Жыл бұрын
I remember whenConsolidated freightways folded. They closed up shop on a Labor Day. According to a story I heard, the truck line wrote a check for a company luau. The check ended up bouncing. I lived just down the street from the Salt Lake City terminal.
@abyss5350
Жыл бұрын
Every time one of these trucking company’s goes out of business the scammers come out at the truck stops claiming they worked for said company asking for money chances are high you will encounter this phenomenon
@russvoight1167
Жыл бұрын
I got a call from an Arrow recruiter before it went down, knew something was a miss
@arribaficationwineho32
Жыл бұрын
If a company I was driving for told me that…..I would have left the truck and found a better way home.
@tomtom8306
Жыл бұрын
That was a damn shame. I think Harold Ives knew this would happen to his company, so he sold out to Covenant. The drivers were angry, but they had the opportunity to get home and find other companies to work for. I stayed 2 months then went elsewhere.
@tiny-hj3xo
Жыл бұрын
I never worked for Arrow but I remember their trucks were nice back in the day. That is such a shame. I hadn't heard this story,,hopefully that sack of s*** goes back to jail because his sentence wasn't long enough for the damage he did to the drivers and their families.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Amen to that!!
@RJ1999x
Жыл бұрын
Wonder if his nickname was Hunter?
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
lol
@Hondabill
Жыл бұрын
I drove trucks for Arkansas aluminum 28 years the owner died his son was rich didn’t want nothing to do with it he tried to sell it 2008 day Monday after thanksgiving locked the gate and 150 people were out a job
@vernmeyerotto255
Жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention that the lease-purchase guys got screwed over royally. They were making their payments to Arrow, but Arrow wasn't making the payments to the OEMs. The trucks were repossessed, and unless they had a clear title in hand, those guys lost their investments.
@ppss.6302
Жыл бұрын
Lease purchase is a scam, most of the victims stand no chance to get the clean title one way or another
@vernmeyerotto255
Жыл бұрын
@ppss.6302 I've finished two, and own both trucks... so it can be done. If the father still owned the business, that wouldn't have happened at Arrow.
@darrellepickering8433
Жыл бұрын
I worked for a company many years ago that this almost happened too. The grandfather started it, nutured it. He turned it over to his sons who fought each other over it & came close to losing it. Then the grandsons got involved which strained things even more by too many family working for it. Now only 1 grandson is the head of it & it seems to be ok. Actually I'm surprised, my time under him he acted like a spoiled child.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm glad that ended up working out!!
@Mike-Palmer
9 ай бұрын
I Learned flatbed at Arrow back in 05-07, and Arrow was the best company I had ever drove for. I still hate what happened, and I do miss that company.
@truckingresources4240
9 ай бұрын
I've heard the same thing from a lot of drivers, the whole thing is a real shame.
@derrickking578
Жыл бұрын
My first trucking was Arrow trucking co. Tulsa,Ok had a yard Fontana,Ca. Near my house started First week of October 1996❤
@carriekauffman6880
Жыл бұрын
I remember them stranding there drivers. Cause of that. I always have enough in the bank to get me home from anywhere in the country.
@kelvintorrence5994
Жыл бұрын
Always keep a card,or cash incase they dropped the ball and you have to get home.
@carlstanoyevic3070
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for video that was a sad day! Hope yellow can come out of this the management needs to go down not the employees.
@bertgrau3934
Жыл бұрын
I think it's too late for Yellow, they are taking bids on their equipment, and real estate. There may be enough money to cover most all of the debt.
@RickyChrismon
6 ай бұрын
I worked for them (2007-2009) they told me to shut down and they took my pay...I'm not sure what happened to their chains and binders...but I made it home.... God bless!
@zevoni
Жыл бұрын
I remember I was driving for werner flatbed when I would see arrow flatbed trucks abandoned everywhere.
@matthewgreen6122
Жыл бұрын
I remember to here about this company closing after I got into trucking and how a lot of companies tried to help the drivers to get home it's massed up
@tarrantcountykid
Жыл бұрын
Children of owners that build great companies often destroy them
@Lo-mein0
Жыл бұрын
Please do more Trucking history video like this
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I am working on quite a few more. Most of them are much happier stories than this. Luckilly, the outcome of Arrow is not common!!
@Lo-mein0
Жыл бұрын
@truckingresources4240 happy/sad I don't mind. Your style is unique and I like it. Plus no one else talks about trucking history. You earned yourself a subscriber!🫡
@michaelsautorepair9432
Жыл бұрын
I was a lease operator for arrow when this happened. It really sucked how they did us
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry you went through that!!
@dalemay7498
Жыл бұрын
I was employed by Arrow Trucking in 1982 after moving to Tulsa, OK. I was the night security/fuel desk. I knew the company was in trouble when the manager told me not to give any tickets for tires for drivers on the road. I did and was terminated. One Sunday afternoon, I went to the gas station to fill up a pickup truck. While I was gone a big truck was stolen. The neighbor found the truck next door to a former driver and called the Tulsa yard and reported it. the case went to court and the former driver left the state and the last we heard; he was in Colorado.
@MichelleBuchner
Жыл бұрын
Great vid You should do a video on Allied Systems and the Rutland family
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for that. I am definitely looking into that!!
@the.porter.productions
Жыл бұрын
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 I do remember Arrow. I liked their trucks & can even remember either hearing the drivers complaining and/or seeing the neglect of the trucks. I never knew that the company had started in 1948. My dad was heavily into trucking back then as well. Tis a shame that there was tragedy all throughout the last years of the company. So sad that the son did NOT inherit the quality of the father! Greed is normal pitfall for companies. I can also remember seeing the news on tv of the company & kept my eyes open to help any of the drivers being stranded in our area of Ohio. What a way for drivers to celebrate Christmas. I had hoped that someone would turn the company around. Didn’t hear much about it after that. Hey, maybe Dougie changed his life around after all. Thoughts on that one? And now we’re hearing of YELLOW Trucking closing their doors as well. What a shame! 😔🤩✌️
@timlong7641
Жыл бұрын
I used to drive for Arrow around the same time as things started to go south I heard the rumors and started looking for another job a couple weeks before they shut the doors
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you got out in time!!
@haiderk3246
Жыл бұрын
I bought 1 of there trucks in Dallas fright liner great truck 🙏
@SamMaass-s5h
Жыл бұрын
I remember towards the end they had hired some terrible drivers. That was totally uncharacteristically different from the drivers I used to know.
@tawrencenoblesr1902
Жыл бұрын
Remember This Like Yesterday... the 2nd Company That I Drove for In my 20 Plus Years OTR Experience. Pride & Greed Destroyed This Young Man At The Time Father's Legacy.
@hoytballard5504
Жыл бұрын
Honestly this isn’t the biggest thing to happen in trucking. Doesn’t compare to the fall of CF and surely won’t even rate next to the closure of Yellow happening now.
@darrencatenacci2737
Жыл бұрын
It’s not about size. He can do these in whatever order he chooses. If you want to do that one go for it. The two you mentioned should be years of mismanagement YRC employees have been giving up benefits and wages since the early 2000s. CF basically screwed their drivers while building up their non union company. Again management greed
@scottberry5266
Жыл бұрын
@@darrencatenacci2737: you are exactly on the money with CF. CF had cash up the wazoo until they got the idea about the Conway companies. Used CF money then had to complete against Conway. They definitely broke the union.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Definitely. I have been covering everything with Yellow and CF is on my list to do a story about!!
@scottberry5266
Жыл бұрын
@@truckingresources4240 : cf is pretty easy. Conway companies.
@Pheedub
Жыл бұрын
Some people just need a high five, in the face with a chair! Just like Dougie.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely!!
@ANDREASRIAL
Жыл бұрын
Prison consultant.... he didn't have any experience in trucking, but in tax evasion: an expert ( and the good people that gave their heart and time got screwed)
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
No doubt, such a shame!!
@gregoryshanks
Жыл бұрын
October 3, 2001, started with company a week before my class graduated. The owner was killed in a plane crash in canada. With 3 other Exes who had ties to his business. A Greek tragedy does not come close to be begin to explain the downfall of this company.😢
@bbellefson
Жыл бұрын
Inheritance is almost always the doom of any company, unless daddy make his kids work their way up from the bottom.
@bctw9004
Жыл бұрын
I remember Arrow! They were top notch!!!
@timberlandsinnovationsinc.140
5 ай бұрын
I was the Regional Director. I was there on December 9nth when my position was terminated and given a severence without an explanation. 2 weeks later operations shut down completely. A few drivers I knew called me, and I told them I had no idea. I was terminated on the 9nth. Doug was a spoiled individual. We had 2200 power units and over 1500 drivers. Doug destroyed a powerhouse of a company when he came to power. My association with Arrow tainted my career even though I was a victim of Doug and his friends greed.
@truckingresources4240
5 ай бұрын
Man, I'm so sorry that happened to you. I would love to hear more if you are interested in telling more, either privately or "on the record." This was such a tragedy in the trucking world. Please email me at finchresources@gmail.com. I will give you my personal information to get a hold of me. From what I hear this was a caused by a very few at the top.
@JackieDaytona01
Жыл бұрын
I was in high school in Duncan, Ok when the news about Arrow broke. My father who worked for Melton he told me it was saddest thing he saw what happened to arrow. And whats crazy is the owner of Melton Truck lines Bob Peterson was friends with owner of Arrow and was supposed to be on that airplane with him but cancelled at last minute.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Wow, I hadn't heard that he was supposed to be on the plain. I did hear that Melton really went out of their way to help the Arrow drivers and that a lot of them ended up driving for them.
@brentnewton9065
Ай бұрын
Worked there in approx 1998 to 2001 great place to work then, however I remember hearing the old man sent the kid home because he showed up in his sports car. They wrote me years later and begged me to show tax returns because they didn't pay their end. I drove an abandoned wrecked truck to Tulsa as a favor that had fuel troubles that they charged me for. Told them I'll show you I paid my state taxes when you send me a check that cashes for what you took from me. They stopped calling. So honestly it started prior to little Doug
@Kyle-gb9dq
Жыл бұрын
I remember the day they shut down and turned off the fuel cards on their drivers. It was Dec 22/23, 2009. I was a rookie solo driver on my way to Long Island and had stopped at the t/a just inside New Jersey for fuel on i80. The cb lit up about it.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I remember it too. I stopped at the Flying J in Smithton PA and there was 2 drivers in there wondering how they were gonna get home.
@venussavage
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the book citation. Appreciate the content.
@Kaatu-barada-nikto
Жыл бұрын
The more you tell the story about Dougy the more he sounds like Hunter Biden
@Bane35755
Жыл бұрын
This is what happens to a lot of companies. When they put the wrong clowns in charge. They turned the company into a ATM or Cash Cow. That is why Yellow Freight is shutting down. The Flintstones is running the company, not The Jetson.I can't stop my truck, with my feet.
@neilthomas7606
Жыл бұрын
I remember this but what i couldn't understand is none of these drivers had money in their pockets, having to bum rides, not knowing their paychecks hadn't cleared. Did they not notice what was going on in the company?
@milenko069
Жыл бұрын
Alot of companies go down hill when kids take over and are more concerned over money and not the people.
@damienplotts8835
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like we’re talking about Joes son…only problem the business is our country not a trucking company. Both very sad
@Steve-qc5km
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a duped Trump supporter
@williamm-lb3ml
Жыл бұрын
The only difference is Joe didn’t do crap either………🤪
@sandracastle552
Ай бұрын
I worked at the Houston location from 2005 - 2009 as the Sr. BILLER and I don't recall a couple things you've mentioned.
@VOTEREPUBLICANS594
Жыл бұрын
I'm 69 years old i have learned if you don't own the business that means you work for the business which means one day their going to stick you . Painted on a happy face but never trust them with your livelihood. Be prepared there not your friend .
@wyatt12358
8 ай бұрын
I REMEMBER THAT HAPPENED RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND THEIR FUEL CARDS GOT CUT OFF.
@rp1645
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for taking about Family Dinamices, Have seen in my Personal Life with a class A-CDL how the off springs of a parent, just use there Dads hard work for personal gain. Saw it for a big carrierI shortly worked for in my area, and my wife say it in her Job at a door and woodworking company. When Daddy Dies the Kids start just using the business as a personal piggy bank. When the kids had board meeting, its a big sibling fighting match on whos in charge. I am so glad I am finally Retired and can look at my son who has great work ethics.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad your son has such great ethics. Unfortunately, these stories make the news but we don't see that there are a lot of great multi generation companies that have a lot of success. Thanks for watching the channel!!
@barrychouinard4019
Жыл бұрын
Odd how so many things at this point are similar to YRC. Roadway was a company with no debt. The combination took about 10 years to be completely ran into the ground where there is nothing left. Wonder if people will be going to jail there too. We'll see I guess.
@davidfoulk3078
Жыл бұрын
Seen this in kind of thing in Michigan. The kids of a mortgage free machine shop that they would inherit from their humble parents and after the 2nd and 3rd mortgages were taken out, the million dollar addresses would start showing up. The million boats the Corvettes etc and then…..the realtor sign out front of the closed up shop and I’m talking about machine shops that were in business for 50 60 + years supplying the big 3 SMH!
@curiousgeorge8438
Жыл бұрын
That's what normally happens, the son waits until the old man dies and takes over ,screwing g up everything. There was a company near my place that did the same thing. Only lasted 5 years after old man died
@eb0526
Жыл бұрын
You’re right, Walmart was the same. When Mr. Walton started Walmart, he cared about the employees. When the kids took over, it was all about greed and money ☹️
@rollinontwojohnny3586
Жыл бұрын
Same thing happened to the company my FATHER started, I’m the son! Some issues people don’t realize when the son tries to keep things running. Unknown amount of debt. The financial institution calling the operating line because they don’t know or trust 2nd generation. Customers leaving because they loved the father and that’s why they did business is because of him, not the son. Employees loved the father, thinking the son knows nothing, even educated and born with silver spoon. Employees begin to slack and when you begin to clean house, The son is the bad SOB. And on and on and on!! Soooo, unless you have absolute proof the son is the one creating the issues… KEEP YOUR OPINIONS TO YOURSELF AND TRULY RE-DEDICATED YOURSELF!! I could write a freekin book!
@George-dy3pt
Жыл бұрын
@rollinontwojohnny3586 so you ruined your dad's company huh?!
@rollinontwojohnny3586
Жыл бұрын
Tell us a little about your business C.G., and don’t leave anything out.
@rollinontwojohnny3586
Жыл бұрын
@@George-dy3pt Well, what about your successful business? Tell us all about it and how you got there, bud.
@michaelhoman8719
Жыл бұрын
When 📡 dishes became available for 🚛 they gave their drivers free or reduced cost service ( can't remember which it was)
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Wow, that's interesting, thanks for sharing!!
@edmain1137
Жыл бұрын
I remember this, it still makes me mad.
@lauramater628
Жыл бұрын
Yep been there done that I'm starting a guide and outfit business and this one is for me and retirement. I am jealous of the few who's kids dig in and realize what's up.
@Shinoske22
Жыл бұрын
I used to work for arrow trucking I knew it was going down when I had to get a PM done on the truck and it was taken forever and also when I had to get roadside maintenance they will hold my truck for hours so they make sure The shop got paid so may of that year before they went down I left cuz I fell the size of a sinking ship and I was there and gone before that ship stained I saw the writing on the walls and I got the hell out of there and also I knew someone was funny when I saw the owner drives around an expensive golf cart hiding in the back of the shop with a U-Haul truck and driving a Nissan GTR that car cost base model $80,000 so I can feed somebody was using the money in a frivolous way and it was a trickling down to the drivers so yeah I'm sad that the other drivers didn't see the sign but I was telling them when I was there this ship is going to think get out while you can
@danacrook4203
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Burlington Motor Freight.
@richsmith7200
Жыл бұрын
Kind of our situation with my employer. I think if I were running a viable business, I'd do the obvious, pay all expenses, then bank what's left. Can't cut corners with your people or equipment. Keep things moving, employees able to care for their families, freight delivery on time. We have frequent equipment problems. Hope the best for everyone.
@bertgrau3934
Жыл бұрын
Freightliner paid drivers up to $200 for dropping off the trucks at a Freightliner dealer. A lot of things went bad. They were supposed to pay some drivers child support. They had stopped doing that. By law, they were supposed to give a 60 say notice before a shut down. They withheld truck payments, but never paid Freightliner. And a few more stupid things. The way I remember, he was going to jail for a long time.
@bobbg9041
Жыл бұрын
Well start a new one yellow should have a lot of used machines comming up for auction to cover its debts.
@KellyMcMillan-nv9dn
Ай бұрын
Another extremely bizarre trucking company story is Missouri Nebraska express!!
@pacificdragon1
Жыл бұрын
What that SOB did to his Employees. He should never see the light of day outside of Prison Walls!
@norduferhandel4512
Жыл бұрын
What is the sad thing about not just this company but hundreds of others that are run or owned by a senior family member and they retire or pass away and the spouse, children etc run the company into bankruptcy and hundreds or thousands lose their jobs. Because the original owner did not have a clear succession plan and when they are gone, everything they built up is gone with it.
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
I agree. It is a shame to see a legacy ruined like this!!
@bobk414
Жыл бұрын
Hi brother. I have been driving trucks for just over 24 yrs now. I just discovered your channel, and I like the info you put out. I was working for a future pos company at the time of this debacle....Celadon. They, like other companies, put out the word that if we ran into any drivers from Arrow, to give them a ride to get them closer to their home. What a shitshow that all was. I knew of at least 2 drivers that died because there was a cold snap going on, and their trucks ran out of fuel, and there was at least 1 that went missing. I have no idea what happened to him.
@George-dy3pt
Жыл бұрын
Yea the pos screwed Celadon up too! No charges pressed on the corrupt management
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. I am working on so many other stories about some companies that had a better ending and a few that were tragic like this one!!
@I_Died_2_Weeks_Ago
Жыл бұрын
Premonition of what's about to happen to executives at Yellow 😂
@Mach11976
10 ай бұрын
Kinda sounds like Munson Trucking, Monmouth Illinois 1980s - 1992?
@granddaughterpapa7054
Жыл бұрын
i remember this too. i suppose they got everyone home. there was a huge push to hire tanker guys...
@truckingresources4240
Жыл бұрын
Yes, they all got home thanks to the trucking community!!
@southtexashustler
Жыл бұрын
I always wondered what happened to that trucking company because they was very well known… Funny how things fall apart instead of just letting it run itself and just live a modest life…
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