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

Me, too. I hope to get a relaxing weekend off in a couple of weeks.

 

Yes that's the place. Good to know that they are somewhat flexible. Shouldn't be a problem as the stops are only about 10 miles apart.

What exactly do they sell/am I hauling?. The bills only say NMFC or something like that. Normally I wouldn't care, but things got a bit dicey at the FL agriculture inspection station. Officer asked what I was hauling, I said NMFC and when he asked what that was apparently "your guess is as good as mine" is not an acceptable answer. I handed him the thick stack of BOLs, he took one look then decided he cared even less than I did and sent me on my way.

There seems to be about 5 duplicates of each BOL for each store and all mixed up. Should I sort them out by store?. I hope so, because that is what I did and paper clipped them together.

I would have stopped by to help your Mom eat that BBQ if I knew I was that close.

 

Unloaded and was sent a broker ld,picking up in Seattle going to Waterloo Ny 2700 miles,and has a 34 built in,life is good here at Abielene.

 

I've been reading this whole thread, start to finish. It's taken me over a week. Been an enjoyable, educational read. It'll be weird if I ever meet you folks in person, because it'll be like meeting characters from a book you enjoyed reading.

But I have a nosy question: Whatever happened to Cranky Yankee? Seems like he hasn't posted in this thread since March, and it looks like his account has been deleted. I enjoyed reading his comments, and hope he's okay.

 

@Redtwin the store is like pier one. They sell overpriced furniture, food, pillows, pics, etc.

 

Ol cranky one got himself banned for bein mebbe a BIT too crusty. We miss him tho.

 

Aww, that's too bad. I can see how he might rub some folks the wrong way. Heck, it took me a while to warm up to his posts. But he seemed like a good joe.

Anyhow, thanks for the reply.

 

Yeah cranky is a good cat, kinda like my own version of johnboy in that he helped me out several times in places I had never been to, I like the crusty ol plick lol

 

I have never heard of them before. Over priced would be why they make a big deal about the seal. Odd that they wouldn't want it padlocked but I put one on anyway.

The food would be the reason for the reefer I guess. Never had a reefer load that was set so high at 66. Its on start stop and its really annoying me now.

 

Just a heads up if anyone pays cash for the scale etc. Payroll doesn't seem to catch the transflowed receipts unless there is a correlating efs charge

I found one scale ticket that wasn't reimbursed last month and when I called I was told it was because I paid cash and didn't write "cash" on cover sheet.

I had 2 more trips with scale tickets before I was told this and sure enough there was no reimbursement for them on this last statement.

I usually like paying cash as it simplifies the settlement statement and I don't have to waste time playing 20 questions at the t stop.