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

Funny you should ask, I did hear from him, he's worked it out with his wife and is raring to get back on the road. The only problem is I'm in Las Vegas headed to California, I won't be back until Tuesday, if he's lucky.

 

I'm here at the staging area for the Mirage in Vegas. This is about the fourth time I've ever done trade show deals. It's not too bad, just a pain in the rear finding out where to go. Dispatch had no phone number, and no help whatsoever. I finally called the main number and on the fifth breathing human found exactly where I had to go. Let me tell you, if you think some of these cities aren't big enough for these trucks, either is a hotel casino on the Vegas strip. I'm done, this took all of one hour. I'll leave here at 2am local time for the 3.5 hour drive down to Colton.

 

Glad it worked out for you. I was thinking after we spoke early that I wouldn't be surprised if we passed each other in Vegas, I just didn't think I would be merging onto 15 as you were passing by. That was pretty cool. Be safe running around Southern California today, I'm just getting ready to leave Vegas.

 

I got to the Colton yard at 8:30 this morning. As I was dropping my trailer, my reload info came across the Qualcomm. I had to hook to an empty dry van and go to Torrance to reload going to Monroe, NC for Tuesday at 7am. I had a choice of trailers to choose from so I hooked to the newest one there. The only issue was it was a mess on the inside, so I had to sweep 2 garbage bags of crap out of it and pull about 30 nails out of the floor. I left Colton at 9:30 am and it took me 2.5 hours to drive the 65 miles. Then it took the shipper about a half hour to load me and I was up at the Pilot in Hesperia at 2pm. I'm now at the Loves just east of Kingman AZ at the 59mm. I'll be up and rolling at 4am local time. Time for bed. God Bless and be safe!