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

You dont need to be a smart $$$. he has six small kids at home. Giving this company more than 14 days with a fmaily is enough.

 

Everyone whos drives from our company and even some of their spouses has tried to reach out to you and offer our experience and advice. When you dont take advantage of our help when offered but continue to ask the same questions and have the same issues it makes me wonder...the most prudent course of action would be to have your husband participate on our thread. First hand knowledge and communication is always better and more accurate than going through a second party. Every issue you have posted about is an issue we all deal with and have advice for resolution.
As far as your comment to UTurn, uncalled for and unacceptable. UTurn is correct. If he did not send in a formal request for hometime, he will not get it no matter how much he talks on the phone to dispatch. Dispatch does not handle hometime. Whether you have a family, 19 kids, 2 goats, or whatever makes no difference to a business.
I am curious... Does your husband know about this blog and your posts? He may be embarassed to call one of the mentors.

 

Am sorry that I didnt know that. Usually u would think your dispatcher needed to know. He take pride in his job and will cover any driver who may be running.late on a load if he in that area bc his dispatcher trust him.

 

He has already help with getting loads to there bc drivers ran out of hours. Which happens a lot bc how they may schedule. I know I know you all do your hardest to get the.loads there and some.times hate to repower it bc then u all lose miles and money on them loads. Thank u drivers for all u doi

 

Taking my 10 here in Mt. Sterling Kentucky at exit 113 Pilot. Last time I was here I was training with Johnboy back in January on a Sunday night and it was a balmy 57 around 9 pm and by 5 am, it was in the single digits. Late
r it would drop below zero and fueled somewhere in Indiana at 8 below. Winter can't end soon enough. It was singing in western Indiana 45 miles west of Indy, but mostly rainy.Departed Cargill in Beardstown Illinois about 4 am eastern at a gross of 77,000 plus. 41 k plus of meat going to Harrisonburg VA, but headed for our Richmond yard. Guess receiver is closed on Sunday. Works for me! Departed with tandem slammed to the back, knowing no scales were in my immediate path and no police in the remote area. So headed for the Pilot about two hours east in Decatur hoping the load legal. When I arrive. I stop before the scale and slide the tandem halfway forward as Johnboy recommended. Bam 12280 on the steers, 32100 on the drives, and 33200 on the trailer. Eastbound and Down. Got 185 gallons of fuel, a bite to eat. Qualcomm GPS and HOS is on the Fritz again. Two days in a row. This Yellow Submarine must be possessed. Been checking youtube to see if I am in any epic fail videos, but thank goodness no. My backing is still hit and miss. 50 percent I am spot on and the other, well I couldn't back into the ocean from the beach. But at least I am 50/50 now. I get to work on it every day now. As long as I don't hit anything, I can keep working on it. My official mantra. Well I feel a pee break and a shower coming on. Gotta move home time back to Monday and Tuesday, gonna visit my old trucking school instructors. I think I will survive my first trip out by myself. Thanks to Johnboy and Big Brin, my cornermen who are there when I need them. Bless all my Abilene teammates. It's truly great to be part of this team. Good luck to Tim McCann, Johnboy' s New trainee.

George

 

What is the deal with the yellow truck George? I did not know that they had yellow trucks also. I was taking my 10 at the T/A on 95 a few weeks ago and a white one backed in beside me and it was a lease driver. At least it said leased to Abilene on the door. I was just being curious about the colors.

 

The yellow one was probably a leased truck that now has no driver, popcorn. I guess with all the new hires they are scrambling for trucks to put them in.

George, try not to stress. I know it's hard. My first time out I was scared to death and I kept thatfeeling for a long time. Not saying that to scare you, just truth. I didn't get comfortable until about 6 months in with Abilene, and I had some previous experience. I still have moments where I'm totally clueless, but that's when I call on folks that know what I don't. And backing will still be hit or miss when we have years of experience!!! Oh, another thought that might help in where to put the tandems...my trainer with USX told me to look at where the last pallets are and have the space between the tandems right around there. Usually works for me.

Which leads me to mommy6. I'm relatively certain that how to put in for time off was covered in orientation, and even if it wasn't, if he has a fleet manager that's even half decent, they would have told him about how to put in for it. The trucking lifestyle is hard. Not just for us out here, but especially for the family back home. I don't have small ones so I'm fortunate there and I'm sure it is difficult for you, but you can't come on here and whine about it and not expect someone to tell you to put on your big girl panties. You will eventually get into a groove with it. Let me say also that your trucker doesn't need to hear how Jr and princess miss their daddy so very much and when will you be home, this needs fixing or doing, and I can't sleep without you here, etc. in every conversation. If you think that's harsh, it's not. It's truth. I worry every day about my husband, my son, my mother, my animals, my home, bills that need paying, the new floor I need, etc. But I love what I do.

 

Thanks RC I did not know about the yellow trucks.

The deal with the big girl panties reminds me of my 8 year old who if she don't get what she wants she starts crying and I tell her all the time put your big girl pants on and deal with it.

 

George, if it makes you feel any better, my second load was a blindside back in the caves of Independence, MO. Once you get that first real difficult one out of the way, your confidence just skyrockets. Kinda happy it worked out that way.

Safe travels everyone.