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

There are times this company ceases to amaze me with their archaic load planning and operations. Hometime scheduled for Thursday, got a call this past Friday from my DM going over my particulars for the load I was loading in Sparks, delivery date and time and reload to the house.

Yesterday I check in at 3:45pm inquiring about a preplan. My DM goes home at 4pm so I figured I’d get in touch with him before he goes home. Response? He’s working on it. Ok, I let him know I’ll be dropping the trailer in Macon last night.

This morning I get a text from him that I have to sign my yearly MVR or the world will come to an end. Get the fax number and send it to him along with a simple question, load assignment? Response, he’s working on it. So off to the shower I go, then sit and have breakfast at IHOP. Meanwhile, I go to the fuel desk and pick up my fax, all 8 pages at $1.25 per page. I’m ok with the cost, the receipt for reimbursement is being sent in.

Here’s the kicker about this, I’m on a safety hold until I send this back in. Really? You people with your infinite wisdom couldn’t take care of this yesterday while en route? You waited until I’m empty, with hometime to shut me down until I sign this? My DM just called to ask me if I got it and sent it in, told him I have it, but I’m eating breakfast, he told me they won’t release me until I send it back in. I asked him if I don’t what will happen? He said I’ll be on no dispatch until it’s sent in. I then asked him if that’s so, can I walk across the street to the Enterprise place and rent a car to go home? He thought that was funny, trust me, there wasn’t a humorous part of what I asked him. If anyone wants to deal with a bunch of bass ackward people, come to work over here. That’s all I have. I still haven’t sent it in yet. I’ll get around to it. What a flucken joke this place has turned into. My biggest priority right now is to mark off another day on my calendar. One more day closer to my unemployment.

 

Read the same thing. FMCSA did away with it as mandatory but left it up to the individual companies if they want to do it still. I guess I know what my company wants. A total waste of time and a PIA.

 

At this beautiful I-75 area of Jackson Georgia, you could have a wonderfully enlightening walking tour of the TA, Loves, Pilot, Blue Beacon and then the icing on the cake would be the walk over the interstate to the Flying J. To end the tour you can finish up with some good southern BBQ at the BBQ joint with tuck parking and picnic tables to eat on. Me? Not to overly impressed with any of it.

I actually thought the same thing. I took my sweet ### time in the shower, then had breakfast, then went and cleaned out my trailer. Then sent the fax back to safety. I did call down to safety and voiced my displeasure on the way it was mishandled. But of course, it fell on deaf ears.

 

Got home Wednesday after spending 6 hours at a Pepsi distributor 15 miles from the house in Riviera Beach. Always enjoy getting jerked around on my load home. Wound up with 4 hours detention.

On my way out the gate I got a message from my DM asking if I would take a trainee out when hometime is over. It was answered without hesitation with a resounding no. Those days are history. Then like the good used car salesman approach, I was told I’d be giving up an extra $500 per week plus the extra miles. Best response of the year was, there’s some of us out here that don’t need that extra money and that brain damage. I’m much happy and content driving solo. I’ve seen what’s coming through the revolving doors of orientation, I don’t need my name on any of it.