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

Dropped my load at gatorade and given a few choices which most were crap. Chose the Lockbourne load, DM told me it was ready on the yard....she must not read carefully cuz it said hook empty reefer on yard then live load at the pepsi warehouse. Get to pepsi at 1400 and no open docks so get staged and finally after 1600 get a dock. Didn't start loading me til midnight.....two days in a row gotta put in for detention.....

 

That is what happens when you hire rejects from a saturday morning cartoon you can't even trust with a potato gun:

 

Laughed a little to hard at that one.

I'm still shocked the gate at Richmond is still standing.

 

Dropped at BH Groveport today. While I was at the gate doing the usual paperwork and such, another Abilene driver attempted to place an empty trailer in the bobtail parking area. This was done at the instruction of BH themselves, since they did not have any spots available for empties inside the gate.

As I'm standing there talking to the guards, I hear a loud crunching sound. I turn around just in time to see the driver catch his front bumper on one of the...

...dunno what they're called. These things:



Anyhow, dude caught his front bumper on one as he was trying to back the trailer in, and ripped his bumper completely off.

Sure hope his day got better after that.

 

From what I saw, the bumper was already a little dangly on the driver's side, presumably from some previous incident. That was how he was able to hook it on the plastic pole in the first place.

 

Get up and hook my BH load and find out an extra stop was added when I get there. Get on 71 and a tanker truck messed up and hazmat everywhere....going to be sitting here for a while....I was going to be ahead of the ice, not now....No I wasn't the one that ripped his bumper off, lol!

 

I71 been shutdown 3 hrs now, roads are a nice solid sheet of nice now and ppl getting stuck on the ramps and what not. Soon as traffic gets moving again I bet there is going to be quite few more accidents....

 

Darn, another big truck rolled over 20 miles south of me after I get through this shutdown Im in....If you are headed south from Columbus u might as well shutdown and wait til tomorrow at least. Ppl driving too driving too fast on ice.....