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

I slap myself at times to see if it’s just a dream. But, everyone up the ladder tells us everything is looking good. I just had another ex-trainee quit yesterday. But hey, it’s looking good.

 

Lol.... maybe for some folks. I have an issue I go straight to the top. But, I will say this, my life here is good. The last time I went to the top was about 4 years ago. Now, it doesn’t mean I don’t see and hear what’s happening, I do, and I don’t like it.

 

Same shop personnel. The issues we are experiencing are self induced, they’ve been going on long before March 16th 2018.

Look at the big picture. Who the hell would want to do this job? It’s not just Abilene. Walmart has a big hiring deal going on, even with their good driving job they can’t hire enough drivers. Every company out here has the same issues. Up until today, this career I chose has been very good to me. I’m at the end of this, if I had to do it all over again, or get into it now with all this BS, I wouldn’t.

 

I’m home. Got here Wednesday evening, about 8pm, my wife had a nice birthday dinner waiting for me. In case I didn’t know, she had a nice cake reminding me I turned 63. I also got to enjoy my 20th wedding anniversary with my wife the next day.

We usually go on vacation for 10 days over this time but not this year. The Realtor I’m married to was real busy over the holidays and has $5 million dollars worth of properties closing now. So, our Australia/New Zealand cruise had to be cancelled. We are going to Italy for 3 weeks in April. Believe me, I could give a rats a.z.z. about freight, company issues, politics or anything else associated with these green trucks while I’m gone.