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

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Here in Laredo, TX, and holy poot I have never seen so much truck traffic. There is an astonishing amount of trucks on the road around these parts.

Thanks to a snafu with the dispatch/broker interface, they gave me the wrong load number and it took about 30 minutes to straighten that out. Wasn't hard to fix, just took time because THIS person had to email THAT person who had to email someone else and yadda yadda yadda.

Thanks to another snafu on someone's part, the load assignment had the wrong address for the shipper. Turns out I drove about 20 minutes past the shipper's actual address to get to the bogus address. Didn't have the phone number for the shipper, so more phone calls with the broker followed.

And thanks to all of that nonsense, I'm very likely going to run out of hours here in this dock. Nearest truck stop is 5 miles away as the crow flies, but thanks to the bizarre way Texas does its frontage roads, it's going to take me 26 minutes to get there.

 

Dunno if anybody else is getting the emails, but all those Road Ranger/Pilot truck stops in and around Illinois are going back to just "Road Ranger" truck stops. Either they told Pilot to go jump in a lake, or Warren Buffett told Road Ranger to go jump in a lake. Either way, Road Ranger will not be part of the Pilot/Flying J chain of truck stops after January 24th and we won't be able to fuel up there anymore.

 

. Road Ranger was bought out by foreign company

 

Can’t he just follow you out of there? At least he has someone to help him out. You. I had no one my first 2 trips up that way. No one.

 

Had an interesting brief chat with a Driver who, like myself, is returning to Abilene ... he is clashing with his DM and thinking about requesting a different one... blah blah blah... I guess they clash on issues like him being under load and shutting down for the night with two hours left on his clock... wait, what? Yup... I guess the DM doesn’t appropriate that we are supposed to be doing this...

It took me a moment to realize just what he was saying... or what I thought he was saying... but then the dock guys were ready for my truck so that was the end of our little convo.

I must have missed that tidbit of info during Orientation... TWICE... shutting down with two hours left on our clocks... with frieght on our backside?

Am I missing something?

Could he be talking about something different than I think he is saying? I mean, I can jump to conclusions a bit soon... but shutting down, under load, two hours early?

WTF???

 

As long as it doesn't effect on time delivery I don't see the problem, unless I'm not understanding the question.

 

This is my 2 cents. Take it or leave it. It’s MY clock. If I can run it legally and make on time delivery, S-T-F-U. If I don’t want/need to run 11 hrs, then why should I? And yes, I would tell them this as well. And have done so. It all goes back to clock management. If you work approximately 9 hours each day, no need for reset on the road-for those of you who stay out weeks and weeks at a time. You are the captain of your ship. If you want to burn up your 70 and have to sit for 34 hours, by all means. Roll 11 hours each day. If you want to keep a steady pace each day, then do that. Next thing you know, we’ll have to follow their fuel solutions and fuel where and how much they tell us.