Land Line Magazine comes to the rescue of stranded Arrow truckers

Arrow Trucking Co. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, unexpectedly went out of business last Tuesday, leaving more than 1,300 truckers stranded on highways all over the country. Dispatchers for Arrow ordered their truckers to immediately drop their rigs off at the nearest Freightliner dealership, where they could pick up a bus ticket to get home.

But truckers on international routes found that Arrow had deactivated their fuel cards the previous night, stranding some without enough fuel to get to the nearest dealership.

Calls from desperate truckers started pouring into the offices of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), headquartered in Grain Valley, Missouri. The sad luck stories also flooded the press room of OOIDA’s trade publication, Land Line Magazine.