Abilene Motor Express....A New Place To Call Home

Got a load assignment today to bobtail 2hr 15m to pick up an empty and then turn around and go back the way I just came to get loaded at a spot about 30m from where I started. Plan was to drop the empty and hook a pre-load.

Got to the place to pick up the empty, and it wasn't. Had a few dozen 55-gallon steel drums in there.

Wound up bobtailing back the way I came and hooking the pre-load without benefit of an empty to drop.

Got paid for all of it, though, so I didn't mind. Makes for an amusing trucker story tho.

 

Sounds like a fun day to be had. Lol.

 

Our new Fed Ex ground company pissed us off, so we quit. They put cheap drive tires on the truck, and it shook like hell. I could see that 5 of them were bad by riding behind the truck at low speed. They replaced 3 of them with more cheap tires, and we returned the truck to them. They also lied to us about when we would get on the new health insurance plan. Pushed it back a month twice, and I have no faith in them.

Got a new job with another contractor here in town. Health insurance, nice truck. It's .68 per mile with a $1400 per week each guarantee. This is a much larger company with 74 trucks, and they have many dedicated routes. So we have a chance to get one of those in the near future. Hopefully this one works out!

 

Running me into the ground,when I come off hometime next week,gonna see if they can start getting me west a little,need something I can set the cruise on for a few days.

 

This has disaster written all over it. I couldn’t do it JB. Not a chance!!!!

 

Well, they call you a "finisher", right? Lol