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

Hey Now... We don't talk trash in this thread!!!

{please note sarcasm}

 

Where has the 90 days gone,seems like yesterday I was scheduling orientation.

Can say I feel like I made a great decision to come here,with the help from everyone on here.

 

Time flies when you're having fun!!!

 

Im having fun. Shut down for the night at the first pilot on I 10 in Mississippi. See 2 other abilene trucks here lol loving this volvo. Before this I was only used to 62 mph bare bones frieghtliner eww. Anyone else going to richmond, tx?

 

4 of us here now lol everybody going to texas I guess

 

Not me... Heading to Baltimore on Monday.
Y'all enjoy some good Texas Brisket for me!!!

 

I guess I'll Change my name to Rover, then. That is if I have to sit up and beg for a "treat".

That is so not me.

 

OK. Crazy day yesterday. Started with talking to Don about my load not being ready and taking another HP load going to Kingwood, Texas. Drove to Plant 1, it took the guys there a good minute to find out the load was back at the yard. Found my trailer but an hour down by the time I left the yard. Hit a weight station in NC and a DOT inspector took a special interest in my trailer. He was firmly convinced my trailer wasn't properly wired; our shared stories about our military past saved me a ticket but I still got written up for no brake lights. Almost 2 hours later and a good soaking from mother nature; IT WAS A FUSE! Cut through more stupid on the road and pulled into a full Pilot in GA with 0 hrs and 0 mins on my clock. Pulled off the road and called myself done!

Called my wife and told her to watch out for that MacDaddy character and went to bed.

 

Just looked at my miles for yesterday and was pleasantly surprised that I got almost 600 outta the day. Looking forward to another day of unpredictable!

After another cup of coffee.

 

Twice now I have had HP loads where the trailer wasn't where it supposed to be. On one of them dispatch figured out pretty quickly but the other had me running around two HP plants before giving up and returning to the yard...where I found it in less than 3 minutes.

That one wound up being 1:45 minutes late because it was "lost".

May be a good idea to invest in satellite tracking of the trailers. At least keep tabs on the loaded ones that have customers waiting.