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

Yep. I need to be flogged! Not loyal to the green like I used to be, but when the cash flow starts to tick downward more than I you like, you gotta do what you gotta do and at least the terminal isn’t far from home. I kind of think it’s funny because the powers that be here told the company I was with that I wasn’t eligible for re-hire. Guess any monkey will do here, huh? The old company is so long gone that it ain’t even funny.

 

Hill Phoenix really irks me when I get told to show up at six but store don’t open until eight….I showed up at 0400 because it is a shopping plaza to beat all the cars in….they worry too much about these dollar stores. Then again Im sure there are drivers here that need to be told to show two hrs early so they are on time…..feel like Im in the military again at times getting told to show up uber early and wait.

 

I really feel like Im dealing with special ed ppl when it comes to operations here…..sorry if that offends anybody but I don’t know how else to describe it. Got a sent a pepsi load to Richmond delivering in the afternoon tomorrow after unloaded this morning. Told my DM I can drop it on the yard there and grab something coming back to Wytheville today since I got hometime starting tomorrow, took 5 vacation days since they epically screwed up planning this week with only 684 miles in 3 days….reality is should have gotten at least 1400 if planners knew what they were doing….14 is counting down it has taken all day to get back to me….I said forget it cuz I can’t get to Richmond and back now since they screwed around all day trying to reschedule for a live unload today instead of letting me drop it and turn around and go back to Wytheville, 14 counted down too much. I told them I don’t have time for live unload at pepsi, only drop and hook…..why is it the totally incompetent always seem to end up in charge of stuff…..

 

Leaving the house in the morning to head over to grab a trailer heading up to drop in Lancaster tommorrow.

 

God Bless you all in this thread. I can't even begin to imagine how you all deal with the things posted. My big question is, why stay? Are most of you all east coast / FL residents?

 

Southeast VA here. Kind of a dead zone to live in as far as opportunities. It’s container or food service mostly locally. I don’t want to stay out 2 or 3 weeks anymore. Or go up in the northeast. Had I known just how bad it was here at Abilene, I don’t think I would have come back.

 

They paid me to go to my mom's funeral. 450 deadhead miles that didn't put a dime of revenue on the books. They paid me for 290 of those miles, and straight-up ate the fuel for the rest.

Maybe that's common in the trucking industry. I dunno. Never driven for anybody but Abilene. Maybe other trucking companies would've done the exact same thing. But that's certainly not the sense I've gotten from talking to my fellow truckers.

 

On the yard,gotta get a part put on the truck,that they can't fix till tommorrow,said it will be about a 5hr job,so I reckon I'll be down tommorrow.

Looks like we got alot of new hires.

 

VP walking the yard,trying to get a bunch of short Sam's Md loads covered for the weekend.What they don't understand is its not worth the drivers time to have to deal with that headache.
I'll probally end up running one when my truck gets finished lol.