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

Pulled up to the Boar's Head in Mableton, GA. Backed in to the dock circa 1:00pm. Delivery isn't until 4:00am tomorrow morning, and today is a holiday so I wasn't expecting anybody to be here.

Long about 3:00pm, dude knocks on my truck, says they can unload me now if I want. So now I'm trying to get HQ to put a load on me to get me out of Atlanta while the traffic is still light due to the holiday.

 

HQ found me a load. Drove to the Knight yard that's just a couple miles away from the Boar's Head receiver, dropped my empty reefer, hooked a loaded dry van, drops in Bessemer, AL tomorrow.

Been having a run of bad luck with dropped trailers. This is the third one in a month where the driver who dropped it didn't put the paperwork in the manifest box. And getting a copy faxed to a truck stop is always a pain in the keister.

 

I hear ya John! Im still at home getting ready to head back to Kentucky. I get a text that my load is ready. I replied, Wish I was. 10 minutes later I get a text saying that my load paperwork is in our office in Shelbyville but the actual trailer is at the Ryder Yard in Louisville. That means it was ready a few days ago and they had to show it being removed from the yard. Thankfully we have very few actual delivery times. It gets there when it gets there....now for the 260 mile drive to work.....

 

Come off hometime yesterday and grabbed a gatorade to Indy. Told them Id get to drop 0400 this morning to beat the traffic. Get my reload and it is a live load at HP/Ryder in Plainfield at 1400.....and live unload in Memphis Amazon 2000 tomorrow night....told them too close to my 14 and too much time to get there. No response til 0930 this morning. Told to go try and load early, get here and fond out out appt was 0900 not 1400.....you would think the planner would get times right being they got all the info in front of them.....getting loaded now and told them Id be in Memphis about 1000 tomorrow morning and see if they can reschedule cuz Im not sitting around babysitting stuff.....Apparently this was all that was available in the area....

 

Getting my bh load unloaded a day early here in SC.
Than deadheading home till Tuesday.

 

This will be passed on to the consumer. The "working middle class" will "foot the bill". Isn't this the American way?

One thing I have noticed since fuel prices have been going thru the roof. Not one carrier has cut the speed back on their trucks. Usually, during high fuel prices, carriers will "tied down their trucks", but I have not noticed any doing it now. Now the company I drive for, before this "gouging" all started, we were already governed @67 mph and I have not been in a truck yet that was not getting 9 or better mpg.

 

At home till Tuesday,haven't seen the house in about a month,and here I was supposed to be trying to get home every 2 weeks.

Life's good.

 

From what I gather, you live in or near Greenville,NC, You can now enjoy some of the best BBQ , Parkers BBQ. Love it! Just received 4 lbs. First time I ever ate Parkers BBQ was way back in 1963. I loved Billy's BBQ over in Wilson, but understood he passed away and they closed down.