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

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  1. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    @RebelChick ... ya, what he said!!!
     
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  3. Palmetto_Cowboy

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    How much experience required to work with em
     
  4. Finfn1372

    Finfn1372 Road Train Member

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    I think they hire new drivers.
     
  5. RebelChick

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    Thanks. I may have spoken too soon. Just got a call from her. When I call her Dr to clear up the wording of the diet she’s supposed to have, I need to tell him she’s in pain again. Now, for her to say that, she must be really hurting. There was a snafu in getting her stomach meds to her and she was without them for 38 hours. Don’t know if anyone has ever taken Reglan or Carafate, but if you miss a dose (much less 5), you’re right back to the beginning. Ugh! Want so bad to strangle these morons at the rehab. If they’d have just called, I could have taken some to them. It‘a not like she doesn’t have it at home.
     
  6. ExtremeUnction

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    They hired me fresh outta truck-driving school with the ink not even dry on my CDL.
     
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  7. jarhead0311

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    Kind of had it with planning here.....over my 14 again because noone can look at my clock and hours before planning a load. No clue when Im going to get loaded at this place either.....
     
  8. Finfn1372

    Finfn1372 Road Train Member

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    2 new steer tires,and fuel filters later,heading to Groveport early morning.

    Almost 4,000 miles the past 7 days,hoping freight's coming around.
     
  9. Redtwin

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    4000 miles?, I will be lucky to see 2500 with these dragging loads. So far tanker has been disappointing as far as long waits to load and unload. Fingers crossed they are breaking me in slowly and the miles will eventually flow.
     
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  10. JohnBoy

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    Well now, yesterday was a first. I now have my 13th driver manager in 7+ years here at Abilene. This is after “I” fired number 12. When you can’t even do the job of managing your driver, and tell that driver, after averaging 425 miles a day since leaving the house that he has to swap a load from a team and deliver it 36 hours later with a total of 190 miles, something or someone will explode, and that was me. So after explaining to him that if I’m forced to do that load, I would then bring the truck and trailer to the Markham drop yard and quit.

    After I hung up on him, my phone rang 5 minutes later. It was our Driver Retention manager. Needless to say, 5 minutes into the conversation, I had my 13th DM. I’m not going to badmouth my previous DM or Abilene, but for the love of God, where do they find these people?
     
  11. JohnBoy

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    Someone wanna explain to me what’s going on at the West Memphis yard? 457568C5-1641-4638-9E3E-0CB64F824ACD.jpeg 6BEA068A-C6C8-4E80-9A11-F0E06F4FD385.jpeg 1C95B50A-DD60-4A9A-972A-EA3627DF4FD9.jpeg
     
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