Trucking shutdown

Illinois trucking company’s sudden shutdown leaves team drivers stranded, unpaid

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Team drivers for Cromex Inc. of Villa Park, Illinois, say things were looking bleak after they were...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/illinois-trucking-companys-sudden-shutdown-leaves-team-drivers-stranded-unpaid

Florida-based Flagship Transport abruptly ceases operations

Some 455 truck drivers who hauled freight under the banner of Flagship Transport LLC, a logistics holding company headquartered in Medley, Florida, say they have had no contact with company executives since last week, when they received text messages promising their paychecks would be available for pickup at the company’s yard on Tuesday. But that didn’t happen.

Owner-operator Antonio Rivera, 37, of DeLand, Florida, drove for Arel Trucking Inc. (ATI) of Lakeland, Florida, for nearly two years,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/florida-based-flagship-transport-abruptly-ceases-operations

Unexpected economic headwinds force FreightWorks Transport to cease operations

A North Carolina trucking company notified over 200 drivers, employees and mechanics on Tuesday it is ceasing operations after 11 years after some of its major customers demanded “massive rate and volume concessions.” 

FreightWorks Transport LLC, doing business as FreightWorks Transportation & Logistics, headquartered in Rutherfordton, operated 186 power units with around 140 drivers, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s SAFER website.

In a video message to employees and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/unexpected-economic-headwinds-force-freightworks-transport-to-cease-operations

Trucking company shutdown among Canada’s largest since pandemic began

A truck travels on a road with mountains in the background in Alberta, Canada, where a trucking company shut down.

A heavily indebted Canadian trucking company has shut down after a court-appointed trustee assumed control of the Calgary, Alberta-based carrier and terminated 131 employees and contractors, most of them drivers. 

People Express Transport, which specialized in hauling produce and meat in western Canada and the U.S., ceased operations on April 22, the day that a judge placed the carrier into receivership under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. It had a fleet of about 150 trucks and owed...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucking-company-shutdown-among-canadas-largest-since-pandemic-began

Canadian trucking company’s shutdown gets happy-ish ending

A front view of a truck hauling a trailer with lumber. Canadian trucking company BLB shut down recently.

The end for Canadian flatbed trucking company BLB Transport Group came suddenly in October when owner Carl Gatt shut it down amid a financing dispute with his lender, RBC Bank. The bank, in turn, successfully petitioned an Ontario court to place it under the control of a receiver. 

The shutdown was a painful decision for Gatt, a longtime owner-operator. In 2019, he acquired the struggling Bartia Transport, which did business as BLB. He quickly transformed his one-driver operation of Gatt...

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Breaking: Former Arrow Trucking CEO Pielsticker released from prison early because of COVID-19

Former Arrow Trucking CEO James Douglas “Doug” Pielsticker has been released from federal prison nearly three years early because of a coronavirus outbreak at the Texas prison where he has been serving his 7.5-year sentence for tax evasion and conspiracy to commit tax fraud.

Pielsticker, 51, will remain on home confinement until May 2021, according to a Tulsa World report.

While at the helm of Tulsa-based Arrow Trucking, a flatbed carrier, Pielsticker stranded nearly 1,000 drivers all over the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/breaking-former-arrow-trucking-ceo-released-from-prison-early-because-of-covid-19

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