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

I once had to unload a whole truck at 3 different Bed, Bath & Beyond stores.

 

Got paid really well once I let dispatch know I was bringing the load back to VA. Still not worth it to tailgate 2k pallets with a manual pallet jack. I don’t think they realized that the BB&B stores don’t allow their employees to go into trailers when they accepted the loads from Cost Plus.

 

Only time I have ever unloaded "freight" was when I was brand new, less than 2 months on the road out of training. Hauled a load of paper scraps in bales to a paper mill. When they got done hauling all the bales out, there was a layer of loose paper scraps left in the trailer, wall-to-wall, front-to-back, probably 3 inches deep. Probably amounted to over 200 lbs of paper if you were to put it all together and weigh it.

They handed me a broom and told me I needed to sweep out the truck.

Well, I was new, didn't know any better. Knew I was supposed to clean out my trailer anyways, so whatever. Grabbed the broom and swept out the whole trailer onto their dock. Took me a while. There was a lot of scrap paper.

Couple days later, I was thinking about it and realized I'd unloaded freight for free. They weren't going to throw those scraps away. Those loose scraps were part of the delivery. They were going to use those scraps just like they were going to use the scraps in the bales.

Next time I go there, if I ever go there again, it will be a different tune. I won't be unloading their freight for free. Either they can sweep it out, or someone can pay me to sweep it out, or I'll take all that scrap paper to Blue Beacon and have them do a trailer washout.

 

In other news, the bunk heater on this KW is a joke. Sitting here freezing my cojones off because it's 36F out there according to my truck so I can't idle the engine to stay warm. But the bunk heater is blowing cool air, not warm air, so it is absolutely not helping. Cannot figure out a way to make the bunk heater blow actual warm air.

If I'm gonna give up 95% of my life to live in a 6x6 foot box to haul freight for Abilene, I feel like the least they could do is let me be comfortable.

 

Have you had anyone look at it?
Call Breakdown?

No way to force a KW to idle?

 

There is a very small needle pin hole right where you set the temperature. It's your "Reset" button...put a paper clip or something to clear the system and enter again all your settings.
There is a "You tube" video on the Kenworth bunk heater... I will try sending it to you. Also if the "Asper heater" is bad it some times will take the dealership 2 weeks before they can get the parts and fix the problem.
I froze 8 time's inside my kenworth then I stopped at a Kenworth dealership and called Ala Jones and asked to please put the truck on idle... He said yes and spoke to Joe. 5 minutes later problem fix. Hope it works for you, I now how it's like to be frozen and not sleep well.

 

Yes.

None that don't involve buying additional hardware to fool the temperature sensor. Or convincing Alan Jones to have the KW techs turn off the auto-shutdown.

 

Anybody ever been to the fed ex in Ft. Worth?

 

I’d be making that call!!!
... or be going to a hotel.

From the sounds of it from @Silverdriver above, they should have experience in this very issue and I bet can do it remotely too.