Do you think that ArcBest has a blueprint in place to shut down the company for a few days if they are denied further concessions by the union membership? I think so, and probably will eventually decertify the union with the threat.."we can't compete,etc).
Probably blame it on the COVID virus or some other kind of panic at the time. Blame it on the President (not necessarily Trump or Biden), whoever is next or next. Opinions , please. BTW, I did go back and post on the YRC board since they are our Teamster Brothers..
For ArcBest to shut down the company, because of "inability to compete",.....they would have to have a viable non-Union side producing AT LEAST two-thirds the revenue that ABF produces now.....
And they would still take a beating, profit-wise.......
Closing the non-Union side was feasible for Menlo Park, Inc......because they had an EQUALLY competing non-Union side. They actively tried to push as much CF work to Con-Way in the years prior to the slap-in-the-face closure.
Since ArcBest does not have an EQUALLY competing partner,........they'd have to practically shut off their revenue stream to close ABF,....which would make investors screaming ugly,.....and cause emergency shareholder meetings, lawsuits, and other lawyer-related activities....
Whoever called that shot in upper management would be tarred and feathered. Whether they like employing those stinky, whiny, demanding, arrogant Teamster employees,...or not.......is kind of out of their control, revenue-wise. I'm sure the corporate dream is to have a quiet, subservient, cheap,...non-Union ....workforce. All companies want that......
But,....If they were trying to set up Panther as the company to "compete" revenue-wise to ABF,......I think they realize now that experienced, dedicated drivers are just a....little hard to come by, nowadays.......
Idiots with CDLs are being churned out by predatory truck driving "schools" by the barrel-load as the economy tanks and people lose ..."normal"...jobs....
But,.....you sure can't make a profit off of idiots.......
You can try,.....but, it makes you an.....idiot....too....