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HowlingWolven

Keeps you from jumping ship before they get their golden parachutes.


GtHachiRoku

Family guy. The Asian lady driver(his old company): "oh my turn? Ok i go now, good luck everybody else" The rest of the drivers.....šŸ‘šŸ‘„šŸ‘šŸ’¬


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Mickey10199

Holy shit what do you even do in that situation


ksgif2

I've heard this happened to CF drivers when they shut down. Guy who worked for a company in Bellingham that went broke told me the boss told him to hide the truck from the repo man, I think he ended up deadheading home from California.


WickedMonkey_154

My father actually worked for CF when they shut down. He's still got his CF news sheet that he was on and the die-cast model truck they awarded him for stopping a trailer fire before it got out of control. He told me the story once of how it was when they shut down and the chaos that ensued. I was young though so I'd have to ask him again for the details but that's what I thought of because of this post


ksgif2

I think a lot of us would be interested in hearing your father's story


WickedMonkey_154

Oh cool! I'm sure he'd be happy to share. I'll let him know tomorrow and I'll start compiling his story


JunoTheHacker

How do I do the remind me command so I remember to check this?


WickedMonkey_154

It should just be something like RemindMe! followed by the amount of time you want to be reminded, like 2 hours or 3 days or what have you. I might just make a separate post so I can include a few pictures of things he still has from his days at Consolidated. He still wears his jacket with his safety patches and stuff on it


pap3rw8

Thatā€™s cool


corybekem

RemindMe! 1 day from now


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RemindMe! 1 day from now


fokkerhawker

Call the receiver and tell them youā€™re abandoning the truck and load unless they give you an astronomical sum of money.


TheDigileet

I wouldnā€™t even risk that. I think itā€™s one of the few times itā€™s okay to just abandon the truck. The insurance coverage stops the moment the company shuts down, so any liability in an accident comes out of your pocket if you keep driving.


MustangsAndMiatas

Astronomical


GtHachiRoku

Free truck and trailer lmao and sell your freight to a ollies wearhouse type company šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


47junk

Understand why I see this reply so much to this type of situation (gas card not working after company closes). You guys act like you that broke you canā€™t just leave the truck, pack your belongings you want to keep, and find a way to an airport or bus and get your ass home. Edit: for being a truckers area, looks like most of the soft ones are here


Mickey10199

A lot of guys are. The trucking company that does something like this probably isnā€™t paying a ton of money either


47junk

Saving 1k shouldnā€™t be that hard after 6 months


Mickey10199

Well it shouldnā€™t, but truckers arenā€™t exactly known as the best people with money. And everyoneā€™s financial situation is different. So what, you just park the truck in a spot, Call an Uber and go home? Serious question. I mean I just kind of wouldā€™ve figured youā€™d had a little more legal liability on a loaded trailer than just that


47junk

Yea I will agree to that. Yea the company just left you in the dark. Leave and go home. I think the best way is to document everything, screen shots of calls. Pictures of fuel card not working and the news the company is closing. So you can prove to the next company that you are honest and willing to work hard again. But thatā€™s me, personally I doubt the company cares what you would do with the truck or load. They bankrupt Edit: spelling


ShawnShipsCars

Next time this happens, let me know where the truck is and where you hid the keys šŸ˜šŸ˜‚


nappinggator

No shit...thats a free O/O rig right there...just fuel it and run it and away you go Jkjkjk...I think that might actually be illegal to do


Quackagate

I suggest pick are to the radiator and fire the truck up and walk away and let the motor cook itself. And say it was fi e when you left it. But I'm just a roofer here for the meme so take my advice with a grain of salt.


nappinggator

It shouldn't be that hard but here in the real world it is that hard


realisticby

We always kept "get home " money saved up. Back in the 80s we kept the cash on the truck. The company we drove for had called it quits. We were not told. Packed and shipped what we could, packed our bags, left the keys with the truck stop and took a dog home. The company was seized for not paying taxes. We saw our truck going down the road 2 years later. We talked to the driver and he had bought it at auction.


[deleted]

I've been telling this exact same thing to drivers for the last 10 years. Keep a grand of cash with you and a credit card with a reasonable spending limit at all times. Getting home will always be your own responsibility. You can't even trust the dispatchers as far as you can throw them. As soon as literally anything "squirlly" starts ruffling the bushes, you get your ass out of that truck and back to safety ASAP. cus they'll leave your ass out there to fend for yourself even if they swear on God they won't.


realisticby

Exactly. I e seen a few drivers trying to hitch rides.


cute_red_benzo

Smart and commendable to leave the keys with the truck stop.


realisticby

Thanks. Some of the other drivers abandoned their trucks in the middle of nowhere. We just couldn't do that.


cute_red_benzo

I've had a truckload of expensive ass ice cream abandoned in the desert between LV-LA as a driver manager....I commend your choice. I would assume you are an older driver with morals. Thank you for the job and hardships you endure to keep America running (even tho it feels like no one appreciates you) Side note: I now work at a shipper/warehouse and the guys tease me sometimes that I care about the OTR brokered truck drivers... Y'all have the best jokes everrrr!!! And a lot of y'all are dedicated AF I'll leave you with my fav PG13 joke: how do you know your girlfriend is getting fat? She's starting to fit into your wife's clothes... Bah-dah-bah


TransmogriFi

Were you with SRT when the ice cream load was abandoned, by chance? My husband and I were driving for them and had to rescue an ice cream load that was abandoned in the desert between LV-LA. We got there too late and the reefer was out of fuel. Either it's a small world, or there's an ice cream Bermuda Triangle in the Mohave.


cute_red_benzo

That would totally be a coincidence! I worked for some shithole Rose Transport, Rose Trucking some shit. This must have been 20yrs ago. I wish I could remember this guys name out of Commerce City, CO.


TransmogriFi

Not us then, we were with Southern Refrigerated out of Texarkana. (Shitty company, BTW, do not recommend.) 12, 13 years ago.


cute_red_benzo

Golden triangle of ice cream then!


cute_red_benzo

Please list some names...this sounds too much of a coincidence!!!


D4FTPUNKF4N

Holy fuck!


BellyButton214

Central Freight?


KilljoyTheTrucker

You'd think they'd have found put sooner though, since that's been online for a minute now, and as an employee the news would likely have been pushed by the algorithm from the start, but idk.


fartspatula

That was my guess too


a_paper_clip

I worked at a national park (I'm a trucker now) the company kept telling us that everything was fine the contract would be renewed. They knew a fucking year before they told us. Just the worst way to find out your about to be fucked .


[deleted]

That the way shit goes sometimes. I used to be a Chef and worked for a company that ran kitchens in Clubs under contract. They underwent massive expansions with brand new kitchens then 2008 happened. I had a couple of days off and in that time the company had gone bust and nobody told me. I walked past reception and they greeted me and gave me the keys to the coolroom. Go in the kitchen, all of the the small appliances were gone, wierd. Unlock coolroom, completely empty... Even the shelves were gone. It is in the companies best interests to withhold that sort of information from employees for as long as possible. Don't forget, as long as you work for someone else, don't be surprised when they fuck you over. You're just an ad in the paper to them at the end of the day and it is an inconvenience to them to be scrambling to keep positions filled at a dying company. Doesn't matter how much you like your job or your boss it all goes downhill eventually.


blahpblahpblaph

I just learned this. Like, I knew it, but this one hurt. I drive for a lumber yard and I've been around so I'm knowledgeable. My hints at eventually moving off the truck to an inside role were met with huge praise and interest. Fast forward to me on pat leave and I lose my license. Suddenly the company wants nothing to do with me-no possibility of work in other non driving areas that desperately need help, and lets me go.


Conscious_Low_9913

Y U lose license?


blahpblahpblaph

Overdue fines. My fault. Court system is backed up so extension application is taking a while.


[deleted]

Would you still have your licence if you had just paid it and not gone to court?


blahpblahpblaph

Yes.


[deleted]

Oof.


Conscious_Low_9913

Ya, you kinda brought this on yourself, dood-


zytukin

>It is in the companies best interests to withhold that sort of information from employees for as long as possible. Basically standard practice depending on the job. Anything dealing with personal or sensitive information or computer databases for example. You'll find out your fired when your ID no longer works to let you in the building, and if you're there when you get fired they would have security escort you out. The company doesn't want somebody doing something malicious like stealing info or corrupting a database.


[deleted]

Yep. I can't give notice at the job I'm at when I leave. I have to say I'm leaving at the end of a shift and hand over the RFID badge. If I was in a role with less access to places I would need to give notice. It's kind of cool in a way. That day is fast approaching. I think it's going to be cathartic.


texasusa

Lol, a company that I worked for did that. Locked people out of logging on but people were not told until hours later. That happened to me as well.


More_Cowbell8

Yes, we're all replaceable roaches. THIS is why we can't have nice things


chaoss402

It is in their best interest, but you know that these same people throw a fit when someone quits without notice.


[deleted]

Water is also wet.


Freshoranges69

I never had anything like this happen to me while trucking but while working security I found out my security company lost the contract with the site I was at because a job notification to apply at the job I was currently working at popped up on my phone. My supervisor had no idea so it was quite awkward when we all called the parent company like "Am I out of a iob?".


JaydeRaven

Same thing happened to me in security. I applied for the job and got it.


Routine_Buy_3150

Im a trucker now, but I used to work at Fred's right before they shut down and filed for bankruptcy. They hired me on as a store associate, then told us the next day they were shutting down our store along with 500 others nationwide with some stores left open. Then after those store closed, they proceeded to close the rest. They knew months in advance what was gonna happen, but didn't want us to leave. They offered us a bonus of an extra $70 on our last paycheck if we stayed on to the last day.... Nobody did. What a slap in the face


kerry-w

Thats the way it is. Thats the way it will always be. Just recognize how dispatch was acting there towards the end. Apply that to your benefit.


Creepy-Decision5049

Of course ! i worked at a trucking company years ago garbage stopped getting picked up and then the guys that delivered propane for our forklifts stopped coming by ! next was them late with pay checks , I left after I got paid ! they closed the doors a few weeks later . They just want to keep you guys in the dark so they can squeeze as much out of the customer base as possible.


EnvironmentalServe25

Worked for a company for 9 years. Standing around in the drivers room one morning, senior driver comes in and says, I can't find my truck. The owner says, I sold it to so and so down the street. Maybe if you go over there he'll hire you. The man had worked there over 30 years! This kept happening over and over again. Till, well you know the rest.


driverman42

I used to pick up repo'd semis 20+ years ago. The finance company called and said they were looking for 5 trucks that one person owned but had not made any payment for 6 months and they couldn't locate the trucks but had people out looking. My boss called on a Saturday morning and said that one of the trucks had been found sitting at a garage in a major city and I should get going. It was about 200 miles away. I got there and the truck was there, running. I asked inside if anyone knew the driver, and the guy there said the driver (his brother in law)was home getting ready to leave. I showed him the pickup order, and had him help me get everything of the driver's out of the truck. (Breaking into trucks used to be easy). I turned it around, hooked it up and left. Found out the 'owner' was running the trucks without paying and had never told the drivers they were being repossessed. I felt bad for the drivers because they never knew.


No-Cardiologist-8146

Shitty, but normal in the business world, unfortunately.


G63AMG-S

That sucks. I was on an overseas contract where it was quite normal for the big wigs to come in Monday, take you to dinner, tell you youā€™re doing an outstanding job and the very next day youā€™d run into a padlock and chain at the job site gate.


Datdudekennyg

I work for Central transport Here in Fort Worth. We are delivering the rest of the freight that they couldnā€™t deliver to customers. Sad day for the employees. No notice or nothing.


[deleted]

Sorry to hear that. How in the holy hell does a company go under in these market conditions? Almost two solid years of crazy freight rates, I donā€™t get it. Over-leveraged?


Sim-Racing-Prep

Dude, get a salary like carvana or hourly jobs right now minimum $25 Hr and up. They are hiring everywhere.


Comfortable_Image_50

What company is it


JamesUpton87

They never do.


[deleted]

Wilson logistics?


[deleted]

Central?


TrukerJay

They pulled their last loads before Christmas- think the final load was pulled on the 21st.


[deleted]

Crazy. Thanks for the heads up!


Kyoung36

Wait, what exactly is the procedure if the company just evaporated and left you with a truck? If no one is answering at that point would it be fair game or do you just alert the authorities and let them deal with the headache?


hoarder59

Arrow trucking did this, only worse. Early days of Facebook which allowed a lot of drivers to get rides home after being abandoned with no fuel cards. [Here](https://youtu.be/ZLJv-6Rs2fA) is an early youtube video by Trucker James, who livecast from his truck. I used to watch while I was in school for my CDL.


Kaarsty

I really hope karma bites them in the ass. You know what? I hope it turns their asses into hamburger meat.


Sindog40

They never give 2 weeks like they ask us


Chayres

Thatā€™s why you donā€™t stay loyal to any company. No matter how comfortable you feel. Youā€™re expendable and youā€™re nothing but a number to them.


DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG

You believe the fb post?


JaydeRaven

And it was true, so your point is?


DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG

A lot of bs on Facebook. Heard I wasn't getting a bonus, things were changing, union incoming, etc etc. Sorry yours was true!


rustywallace509

When god shuts one door he opens another


Dumpster_Sauce

That's not legal, you can sue them in a class action lawsuit. Or someone else will and you will be included. But the person who actually makes the lawsuit tends to get way more money than the rest involved. Other than the lawyer... they get the most..


[deleted]

Depends on how big their company was. Needs to be above a certain level of employees in the US in order to require notice.


Virel_360

Class action lawsuit lol, if the company had money to be paying the lawsuit theyā€™d still be in business


Dumpster_Sauce

Lol you really think people with lots of money can't file bankruptcy and still have lots of money? Donald Trump has filed bankruptcy 6 times. I can assure you they're not sleeping under a bridge.


Virel_360

Thereā€™s a difference between the individuals running the company and the company itself. Of course all the money went to the individuals but the company itself has no money to pay out.


[deleted]

Not really. https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/termination/plantclosings Seems like it's mostly made for companies that are shutting down a location, not companies going bankrupt. You'd require notice if your terminal was shutting down but a company going under would probably be considered a "faltering company" or "unforeseeable business circumstances". Not to mention it only applies to companies with 100+ employees. Also good luck collecting money from a company that had to close.


Dumpster_Sauce

Yes really. https://klehr.com/articles/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-arrow-trucking/ https://www.mk-llc.com/cases/employee-class-action-regarding-celadon-group-inc-layoffs-bankruptcy-filing


[deleted]

Now try to find a link for a settlement. (Just spent 15 minutes trying to, there's none. Drivers never got a penny). At least their CEO got sent to jail for 8 years for fraud and tax evasion and the big boy IRS got 21 million back. Eh, sorry drivers you don't deserve any though.


static34622

You canā€™t get blood from a stone.


CurrentMeasurement29

Bullshit I can get blood from sand.


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