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

Back at ya John! Im still at home enjoying two weeks off before I start my new job next Monday. Was nice to be home for more than a day.

 

A friend of mine went to the Pharmacy School at USC, as in University of Southern California. Met his wife who was in the same program. They both went the extra years and earned their Doctor of Pharmacology degrees. Get married and both get jobs. One year later she is pregnant, has their son and decides to be a full time stay home Mom and quits working.......for good. So now he has TWO Doctorate Degrees from a very expensive university to pay for......

 

Happy Thanksgiving y'all.



Let's hear it for Cracker Barrel.

 

Ouch

 

Live loaded at Bissell last night and they really rammed those vacuum cleaners in the trailer. It is a wonder none of them broke, lol! Some fork drivers are rough.

 

I worked the dock at Preston (the 151 line) many years ago. We would get a pup trailer that was loaded front to back, floor to ceiling with Hoover vacs. We were a break terminal, so those vacs were going to about 400 different locations. Usually an 8 hour shift would just about get it done.

 

I have been sent once again to the pasta place in Columbia, SC. The one that took 24 hours to get me loaded and out the door.

I thought about refusing a load for the first time in my career when I got it, but I said "Nah" and soldiered gamely forward.

Load assignment said my pick-up window was between noon and 7pm. I had started my driving day at 4:30 this morning for a Walmart live unload, so I was able to get to the shipper by 11:00am. They informed me that, contrary to what my load assignment said, I actually had a specific appointment time: 7:00pm

However, they seem to have gotten their feces accumulated to some degree since my last visit. Place was much less of a chaotic mess than it had been when I was here before. They actually let me drop my trailer in a door and bobtail to the Petro that's 8 minutes away.

When I came back, there was a tractor-trailer halfway out into the main road leading to this shipper. It looked like they were trying to take a left turn out onto the main road when their truck died halfway through the turn. They were completely blocking one lane of traffic as well as the center lane.

I slowed down as I got close so I could turn in, and they waved me down.

"Can you back up and get in the center lane?"

Couldn't figure out why they wanted me to do that. Maybe clear traffic for 'em? But sure, I'm a pal, I'll help.

Just as I started to put it into gear, I saw one of the drivers start attaching a tow strap to the front of his truck.

"Hang on," I said. "Do you guys want me to tow you back into the center lane?"
"Yes."

I declined. This ain't my truck, and I ain't gonna run the risk of tearing it up. I can just see me trying to explain that to Don down in safety. "Yeah, I tore off important bits of my truck while trying to tow some other dude's truck out into the street." That just seemed like it was a bad idea all around. So I wished 'em the best of luck and continued on my merry way.