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

Welp the ac fix lasted all but a week,went out on me in Memphis yesterday.Put it in the shop,and they said I have a leak but they couldn't find it so they just charged it with Freon.Hopeing it will last until delivery on Monday.

On the flip side got my favorite run Volvo picked up in the yard and deliver in Reno Monday morning.You know Johnboy the one you and Carl stole my empty right under my nose from lol jk.


Anywho will probally take a 34,after deliverying Monday morning will have ran a little over 4300 miles since coming out the house last Saturday.Plus I need to take my truck to Volvo and get this ac problem fixed once and for all.

 

Ugh... This day was two days long.

Drive through the night to get to a 9:30am drop... Got there early so grabbed an hours worth of sleep before being escorted around an Army Depot.... Then grabbed another hour while they unloaded the trailer... Before I knew it had another tight load on me running to Atlanta to grab a reefer... Then almost right back where we were all day then back through Atlanta for the drop... Almost made the 10pm timeframe until the time zone change bit me in the back side... Suddenly "on time" for 10pm became an hour late... Ugh.

I can't do these back to back to back runs very often... I think I could sleep in my seat all night and never care.

 

I don't have the mandatory 2 years driving in yet. Besides, I can barely stand being with me, myself, and I in this small cab... Doubt we could fit a fourth.

 

It's been a long path... Major steps way behind you... Now the real fun begins...

 

Made our drop of coolers tuesday in phoenix then got sent to colton to drop and wait all night. When we got up had to get a reefer and head down to oceanside ca to get some salsa. If youve been there you know its a crazy tight back. Good thing we took some time to practice backing!

well they figured this noob needed to learn how to avoid all kinds of pallets and crates and everything else. But with time patience and good guidance from trainer i finally got it in there. That was wednesday.

Currently im bouncing around in the bunk on 1-20 in texas headed to virginia. Hoping to get a little time to stop by the house since im local to the yard before we have to drop.

I know its just week 1 but im enjoying this so far. And as Johnboy says....every day you dont hit something is a good day!

 

Dropped the empty refer in Irving to pick up a van to deadhead to Okie City and drop. Then, bobtailed to Amarillo to pick up one of the Lumber Liquidators trailers. Down at the Petro in Amarillo to get a tail light replaced. Dropping this trailer at another store in Virginia on Monday. IF I can ever get out of this Petro.

sigh

 

Who was that guy who worked for Abilene, then went to Cargo? Anyone remember. I thought Johnboy trained him maybe, maybe not... Im thinking of cargo myself. @MidWest_MacDaddy do you remember?

 

gntorres61 is him

Read the tread,all crying about miles

 

I guess we'll cry together then, because im not getting miles either. But thanks