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

Agreed, but some of the stories I’ve heard over the years about what these DM’s go through as babysitters is unreal. My last one had to keep calling one of his drivers everyday because the driver needed a minimum of 14 hours of a 10 hour break. Another driver on his first load from the Richmond yard to the Colton yard left on Friday afternoon, Monday morning he’s in Alabama on I-10. When they researched his travels on Monday, they saw he drove straight down 95 to Jacksonville Florida, then got on 10 heading towards Southern California. He didn’t even have sense enough to take 295 around the west side of Jacksonville. Another driver who lived in Oklahoma, delivered in Ardmore, got empty, left the truck at the dock, got a ride out with another driver, then had his wife pick him up at the Flying J and went home to Muskogee, leaving the truck and trailer at the dock. Quite frankly, I think these stories are hysterical. And I’ve always said, who in their right mind would want a job inside an operations department of a trucking company? Just walking around our yard the other day and listening to the conversations of other drivers, the constant door opening with the chain smokers, it’s enough to make one find another career.

 

I had Jeff also. Memorial Day weekend last year I called in to Alan Dann and explained to him that based on our conversation right now, either it’s going to be fixed, or my other foot will be out the door. Needles to say, I’m still here and he’s not. Horrible. That’s all I have to say.

 

Who? The DM’s?