Let them go
I would like to operate without having to concern myself with my payables. Unfortunatly ,it seems as though I am not big enough to do so.
We have alll seen sevaral failures amongst the larger carriers, several companies going into various forms of protection, whereby they can discount or simply eliminate older debt.
Unfortunatly a great deal of this debt is often on the shoulders of smaller carriers and suppliers, they are seldom in the position of being a prefered creditor.
The creditors that are left on the wayside, then must recoup their monies elsewhere.
Suppliers, by raising the rates to the rest of their customer base and Carriers / brokers by delaying payment to other carriers.
It is a falacy to think anyone is better off by keeping these carriers afloat.
With the scarcity of freight in any direction, all of the capacity left by the demise of Bruce R Smith will be easily and quickly gobled up by other carriers, who may I add are paying their suppliers.
If it took a driver to pull load a for the defunct it will simply take another driver for company B to pull the same load.