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

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Need to hit a Target and a grocery store and clean house a little. By the time I get home I will have been gone a total of 5 weeks. The most time out at one stretch in 7 years. I have run out of everything. My wife made me promise her years ago not to do laundry on the road so I need to buy a few new pair of jeans and skivvies. I lost 25 pounds the last few months so I can use a few new clothes. That's my day, right now I'm getting ready to go shower, then I'll walk across the street to the IHOP for breakfast.

 

We want to see it once it's completed.
Care to share the details before it's done?

 

Awesome Lady!!!!

And a good Realtor too...
(got an offer on the house yesterday)

 

Once again, two trucks out of BH, Groveport to same two locations... and I only have ONE pallet of 120# to drop here.

Oh well, job security through inefficiency... LOL

 

You are a better man than I am. Most I ever stayed out was 2 weeks and that did not happen too often. Ran into an Indian River driver who was out for over 4 months, he told me. I guess I am a "#####" but I am going home every few days and I am going to stay a day or two when I get there. Life is too short. Now maybe for a single person who has no family but I still couldn't do it then. One thing I like about hauling milk, when I get empty, I don't call anybody, I just point the truck towards the house.

 

Sweet

 

It is "sweet" as far as getting home, but it is cheap. But I am "retired" and this suits me better than anything that I have found. Been in this business going on 54 years, tried about everything in the transportation, especially the last 20 years since "retirement" and once in a great while, we will get a backhaul, 99% of time, deadhead home. Bad thing about hauling milk and especially cream, hours spent at dairies trying to get unloaded. Don't know how milk haulers will survive under ELDs.

I see you are from Gastonia, NC I was born and raised about 50 miles up the road, spent my first 27 years of life in Spindale.

 

I heard. Congrats!

 

Believe me, this won't happen again, after 38 years of this insanity, those days of constant living in a truck just ain't my cup of tea. 2-2.5 weeks then home for 4 days is were I am in my comfort zone. I really can't complain though, Abilene has been real good with my home time the 4 years I'm here. This screw up was a great learning curve, for the new load planner that messed up, let's just say he now understands my point of view.