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

I know, right! He’s just leaving us all hanging!!!

You guys be safe out there this weekend. With everything opening back up, those folks that have been at home all this time will be out and about and you just know they have forgotten what little they knew about driving since they’ve been told to stay home.

 

South Carolina, got the 1st off,and the 2nd will take it tommorrow morning.

Called dispatch today about tomorrow,already giving me the holiday line.

 

Stuck in the motel in Richmond for the weekend supposedly getting a new trainer Monday after being with someone else for 15 days kinda annoying we were supposed to be running near the house on the next load too

 

Oh crud... it’s a holiday weekend?
I thought it was next weekend... crud.

I contacted people about heading home for a couple days then dropping this on Tuesday as scheduled... was asked to see if it could be dropped early... I did... Yup... on-site and LUL tomorrow morning.

Got the call us in the morning for your next load... didn’t even think about it being a holiday weekend...

Ya, this could be interesting.

 

What happened to your first trainer???

 

Possibly... It might be low freight due to the shutdown... or not... I still think there was a shift in “planning philosophy“ around the beginning of the year... Instead of the “run hard today; rest later” and opting to run everyone 9 hours a day so as to not have to deal with 34 hour resets, having drivers available to work every day they are out, and make planning more standardized...

but I’m probably completely wrong on that.

 

That yard was choked with loaded trailers little more than a week ago and has been every time I was on it since March. How is there "no frieght"?