I had a talk with Colonel Robert the other day. His doctor says that his lungs are clear and his heart is repairing itself! This is great news! After nearly a year break from working, Colonel Robert says he is very excited about getting back in the studio! He has signed 3 gals from the Alabama and Florida areas to his label and says that he is working on the “Road Dogs on Hogs” song again. He did not give a time table as to when he hopes to get the song out, but I know we all are happy that he is working on it again.
Posted 20 hours, 31 minutes ago at 06:24. Add a comment
UPDATE: Here is a picture of John Eischens Jr. Please take a look, keep an eye out, and pass this along to other you know are traveling the roads.
This is from Land Line magazine. Please keep an eye out for this driver. There is a phone number at the end of the article if you have any information on Mr Eischens.
SPECIAL REPORT: Former Arrow driver now officially ‘missing’
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 – A missing persons report was filed last night by the family of John M. Eischens Jr. of Mabank, TX, a former Arrow driver.
The family reportedly has not heard from the trucker since before Christmas, when the Tulsa-based motor carrier suddenly shut down operations and stranded nearly a thousand drivers on the road.
As volunteers were trying to locate those drivers and get them home or to a safe place, the driver of truck number 6325 emerged “unaccounted for.” After two weeks, he remains missing.
According to Iowa driver Eric Mende, a volunteer working to help stranded drivers, Qualcomm reported no activity on the truck that Eischens was driving for Arrow. Mende said the “last ping was to a tower in the Butte, MT, area.” Mende began calling truck stops in the area and that’s how he found truck number 6325 abandoned at the Pilot in Butte, with keys in it.
Mende told Land Line Magazine that he asked the Pilot security guard to check the lot. The guard found the Arrow truck and reported that the driver’s belongings were gone. The guard told Mende the truck had been there since Dec. 25. There was no sign of Eischens.
Volunteers who have talked to Eischens’ family in Texas report that his mother is worried that he’s not contacted them for several weeks and “it’s not like him to fail to call on Christmas.”
Det. Steve Williams of the Anna Police Department told Land Line that the report was filed last night and going “into the system” Wednesday morning. Williams said because it was a new investigation, details were not available.
If anyone has information on whereabouts of Eischens, please call Det. Williams of the Anna, TX, Police Department. The office phone is 972-924-2848; after 5 p.m. calls will be handled by dispatch at 972-547-5350.
Posted 1 month ago at 08:32. Add a comment
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Howard McGhee
Transportation Technologist Sr.
Alabama Department of Transportation
Third Division Pre-Construction
1020 Bankhead Highway West
Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2745
Phone: (205)581-5641 Fax: (205)581-5624
Email: mcgheeh@dot.state.al.us |
IF YOU ARE DRIVING AT NIGHT AND EGGS ARE THROWN AT YOUR WINDSHIELD.
DO NOT OPERATE THE WIPER AND SPRAY ANY WATER BECAUSE EGGS MIXED WITHWATER BECOME MILKY AND BLOCK YOUR VISION UP TO 92.5% SO YOU ARE FORCED TO STOP AT THE ROADSIDE AND BECOME A VICTIM OF ROBBERS. THIS IS A NEW TECHNIQUE USED BY ROBBERS.
PLEASE INFORM YOUR FRIENDS AND
RELATIVES.
Posted 1 month ago at 07:42. Add a comment
I wanted to let everyone know that there as been a change in the “Running Skip” forum. I was able to import your profiles and all old post. I have not had time to check if your profile pictures got moved. If you would, please sign in and check the details of your profile to make sure everything is correct. Use the same password you had with the old forum. I have not found a mod to add a “album” to the forum yet. When I do, I will let ya’ll know. Till then, you can email your pictures to me and I will put them in the “photo gallery” on the web site in a album with your name. The old forum is still up but I have set it to “read only”. Please visit the new forum and help me check for bugs and anything that does not work right.
Regards,
The Running Skip Team.
http://roaddogsonhogs.com/forum/index.php
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago at 18:30. Add a comment
The times are tough for everyone these days. But for many Arrow Truck Lines drivers, it got worse yesterday. All I ask is read the story below and look into your hearts and help how ever you can. Living on workman’s comp right now I can’t afford to help with money, or a ride, but I can offer a place to stay for a few days.
I am sure that many of you have seen the white and green Arrow trucks rolling down the road over the years. Yesterday they closed their doors and left their drivers stranded all over the country. According to “Tulsa World“, the 61-year-old Tulsa-based flatbed company, closed it’s door without any notice to the office staff or the drivers.
After closing down the company phone system Tuesday morning and not accepting cell phone messages throughout the day, the company issued a statement from CEO Doug Pielsticker at 6:21 p.m.
“The company has been in negotiations with its principal lender,” Pielsticker said. “Those negotiations are continuing, but the lender has elected to proceed with securing its collateral. The company is communicating with several interested parties and continues to seek a prompt resolution.”
Beginning just before noon Tuesday, callers to Arrow’s west Tulsa offices were greeted with a recorded message: “Drivers, if you’re in Freightliner KW, please take your truck to the nearest Freightliner shop. Call this hot line number to Daimler, (877) 294-9679. They will arrange for you a bus ticket home.”
“I’m shut down near Cheyenne, Wyo.,” Arrow driver Denny Carter said by phone. “They asked me to bring the truck and load into Tulsa, but I don’t have fuel to do it. I’ll be taking the truck to a Kenworth dealership in Cheyenne.”
“I haven’t heard nothing and haven’t been able to get ahold of anybody,” driver Ruben Bradley said by phone. He shut down his rig at a truck stop in Wichita Falls, Texas, on Monday night when other drivers phoned to tell him their gas credit cards weren’t working.
Bradley was hauling a load of steel pipe for delivery in northern New Mexico. He had three-quarters of a 240-gallon tank of diesel fuel he thought would take him to his delivery but not enough to return the truck to a terminal or Tulsa.
And with no working fuel card, he didn’t have $500 to $600 of his own money to fill the tank.
“I’m not going to move the truck. I’m not going to get stuck way out in New Mexico without fuel and no way to get home,” Bradley said. “I can’t get ahold of anybody, not even extended operations or the fuel desk.”
Doug Evans was in similar straits early Tuesday.
“I’m not in a very good mood,” the Arrow driver said by phone, his fuel gauge at a quarter tank as he motored west toward Little Rock with a load of steel tubing.
“I’m fixing to be out of fuel. I can’t get any answers. I got a message to take the truck to the nearest Freightliner dealer. We haven’t gotten any paychecks, either.”
By Tuesday evening, Bradley was driving south to a Freightliner dealer and a new job he’d just been offered in Houston. He had just enough fuel to make it, he said.
Evans, whose load was bound for Houston, had run out of fuel. He was parked in a truck stop 60 miles east of Little Rock.
“I’m waiting for somebody to send me some money — Western Union so I can get enough fuel to get the truck to the Freightliner dealer in Little Rock,” Evans said. “And then I’m going to have to walk home to Monroe, La. There are seven drivers I know about — from North Carolina to Arizona — who are walking home.”
Carter, who was stranded in Cheyenne, almost 2,000 miles from his home in O’Brien, Fla., was nearly alone among the drivers in that he will have a merry Christmas.
“Friends out here, people I met on the road, pooled together and bought me an airplane ticket home,” he said.
“I’m flying Cheyenne to Gainesville on Wednesday.”
Land Line Mag reported the story yesterday with the following statement:
Stephanie Ortega, who works in the Fleet Services department at Daimler, said she found out when she arrived at work Tuesday morning that Arrow Trucking was shutting its doors and about the company’s plan to help get Arrow’s drivers home.
She was instructed to tell drivers to drop their vehicles off at the nearest Freightliner dealership and to leave their keys with an attendant there or at a truck stop if they are out of fuel.
Ortega said drivers are asked to then call Daimler at 877-294-9679 and she and others there “can get them a bus ticket through Greyhound or the company will reimburse up to $200 for alternative transportation costs.”
However, one drawback to the plan is that drivers are on their own to find transportation to a local Greyhound station once they have surrendered their trucks.
“If they can get themselves to a local Greyhound station, we will get them a bus ticket and get them home,” Ortega told Land Line.
The trucking world is coming together to helps it’s own. There has been a Facebook page created with the sole purpose of helping drivers connect with people that can help. Weather it is with money, a ride home, or just a place to stay till someone can get them home, any help a person can give would be greatly appreciated by the many drivers left standing in the cold.
“CDL of it” also have a list going in their Christmas Group Forum of drivers that need help and people that are willing to help. According to a message felt on the Facebook page, there are 2 lists there, one with drivers needing rides, fuel, help. another with a list of folks that can provide rides, help, etc. you can also call 866-929-9627 or 417-200-4411.
4 State Trucks – The Chrome Shop Mafia also made a statement on their Facebook page:
All of us at CSM certainly feel for these Arrow drivers that may end up stranded. If someone knows of a driver that needs a lift home for the Holidays, please contact us at customerservice@chromeshopmafia.com and we will try our best to hook them up with one of our customers, fans or friends to get them back home. We all agree that the trucking business can be tough, but things like this shouldn’t happen.
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago at 10:10. 2 comments
The February issue of Easy Rider’s “BIKER” magazine is out now. If you do not have a regular subscription to the magazine, you can order a copy of this issue only, at this link: “BIKER“. I am ordering mine today! We have had one person make a comment about the article and he says it is great. You can read his comment here. I can’t wait to read it myself! Please come back here and post your comments after taking a look at it!
Posted 2 months ago at 06:43. Add a comment
We have created a YouTube page for video clips of our ride to Sturgis Bike Rally each year. If you have video you would like added, please contact White Rose for instructions on how to get it to her for upload or to upload it yourself.
See the YouTube page by clicking on the link at the top of the page or HERE!
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 15:25. Add a comment
I received the following email from Rogue today.
Cindy
I just got off the phone with the editor of Easyriders “BIKER” magazine and he is doing a two page article on Road Dogs On Hogs.
It will be in the February 2010 issue which actually comes out a little before that.
I do not know what photos he is using, that is always a surprise LOL
Rogue
Sturgis Freedom Fighters
Motorcycle Hall Of Fame Member 2005
www.bikerrogue.com
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago at 17:51. 3 comments
ThePeoplesJournal.com has an itroductory article on the Road Dogs on Hogs in the current issue. Please take the time to go read it athttp://thepeoplesjournal.com/pageone/?p=126. We hope to have a series of stories from the people of the group that attened Sturgis this year with the group. I look forward to reading them!
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago at 11:42. Add a comment
The editor of thepeoplesjournal.com would like to run several stories on the Road Dogs on Hogs. They wish to have personal stores from those that attended this year. You don’t have to be a writer to tell your story and have it published in their on-line magazine. Just wrist out your thoughts, feelings and experience of riding to Sturgis and meeting everyone and they will edit it, correct spelling and make it all flow and look good. They will send you a copy of the edited story BEFORE they run it so you can see what will be published on-line.
The on-line magazine is published once a month right now. They would like to have enough of our group that is willing to share their experience, to run a story in each issue from now till we ride again next year. As per out meeting in Sturgis to remain just a “mob”, Buzzard and I have told them that we would pass along this request to those that attended and hopefully ya’ll would be happy to share your experience with the rest of the world. They will be running a short intro to the series later this month and I have offered to kick it off with my personal experience for next month.
REMEMBER, these stories will be your personal experience of the group and rally! You can say and have all the space to say it in, that you want or need! All you need to do is go to www.thepeoplesjournal.com and sign up as a correspondent. The link to do that is at the top and bottom of each page of the site. When you sign up let them know that you will be submitting your personal story of the Road Dogs on Hogs. It is our hope and theirs that this series of stories will intrigue other drivers to check us out and ride with us next year!
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago at 03:32. Add a comment
