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Being a wife of a driver< my heart went out to every driver Arrow had on payroll. Being from Tulsa Oklahoma the embarrassment was be yond words. I thank you for the kind words you spoke to each driver in the industry who managed to help these drivers get home. Arrow not only hurt these drivers but most of all the families of these drivers. Especially the ones who has children still at home. Not to mention here at the holidays. I hope the OWNERS OF ARROW GET THE PAYBACK THEY SO DESERVE...This is so sad isn't it....

Thank You Dan for making this post. There has been an amazing collaboration within Social Media that helped this story get the attention it would not have had in years prior. Still it was not enough to ease the brunt of what these former Arrow Employees will endure now trying to transition through this difficult time. It is a disgrace that the ATA made no mention of what Arrow did to these people yet fleet Owner Magazine had articles with hours noting the impact of Social Media from the constant chatter of individuals on twitter & facebook. The endeavor has not been smooth but this is uncharted territory. The Ex-Arrow Drivers on facebook have been woking hard to verify scammers & help fellow workers also. Formerly of Arrow, Donna Creekhouse & Efficient Multi-Taser Dana Stanely stay up all hours thru Chrismas witth other Arrow Driver who volunteered to help get others home. Many do not have computer skills & didn't know where to start to pick up the pieces. They have had a number of "bum steers" trying to sort through all the information. I encourage anyone who can help these Arrow folks directly to friend them on Facebook where they have been trying get assistance for each other & get direct access to other services now that they've made it home.

As an ex Arrow driver I am amazed at the assistance and the dedication that our co-workers, other truckers, and others not even involved with trucking have shown to helping us!!! It helped to ease the sting of the collapse of a very close knit family we had at the company.

Good luck to everyone involved here, great to see people can still pull together!

I have to apploade each and every driver who stuck it out at arrow even though they knew the end may be coming , the company however should have shared more to there drivers/employees about how close it really was . Good luck to all the drivers/employees of the former arrow co. .

My husband's company closed the doors a little before Arrow, one day they were running trucks and the next day all the driver's were standing in the unemployment line. Fortunately my husband had moved on a few years before - he was with the company 14 years before that though, and it was heartbreaking to see the company close it's doors. Some Truck Drivers don't believe they you could not get a job that pays as well as the one they currently have; they you are earning upwards of $50,000.00 annually. Drivers paid by the mile earn around 25 cents per mile and at 65 miles per hour, roughly $16.00; this is a decent wage and many believe it is impossible to earn, what they earn driving a truck, from another job. Include all the expenses that a driver pays out and that hourly wage drops significantly, to $4.50 to $7.50 per hour; the idea that a trucker cannot earn the same money that he does driving, is an unsupported premise. If a trucker worked at construction for a wage of $7.50 per hour, providing that he put in the same amount of time, 70 hours per week, he would be earning a higher annual income. My husband believed for years that he couldn't make another job work for him. After we did the math, he took a job for 7.50 an hour, and yes things were tight to begin with, because he was only working a part time job, of 40 hours per week. Now though he is making more money than he ever did driving and he still works 40 hours per week, 4 days a week, has all the benefits he needs, and he is home every night at long last. You can do it too :) Long live the American Trucker.

Great points Sandra, Thanks for the encouraging words!