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

I recently had my 6 month safety review with a DOT officer in PA for having my own authority. I asked if there was any directives to pull these guys in more often. He said no. I gave him A LOT of information and told him it needs to be relayed to his superiors. I won’t hold my breath.

 

Portland to Jacksonville…
sweet run

 

Forgive me. I had a momentary brain freeze.

 

Down here on I-20 west of Fort Worth. Don't get down here too often. Can count on one hand the number of times I've been on this stretch of highway in the past 5.5 years, and I'd have fingers left over. Got a delivery to Odessa tomorrow, then back to Fort Worth to pick up something or other, which I will then deliver to Valdosta.

The load assignment as written would require me to have a working time machine on this bucket in order to make the Fort Worth pickup AND the Valdosta delivery on time. But as it is a drop, I'm not too fussed about it. I sent in a qualcomm message informing all and sundry of my inability to bend the laws of time and space, and that's about as much due diligence as I am willing to put in.

@JohnBoy , got to wondering today about how they did things in the old days. Was specifically wondering how they paid for fuel back in the '70s. Did you guys have corporate credit cards or something? National accounts with the truck stops? Inquiring minds wanna know.

 

Don't forget cash, but that was back when you could trust a driver with cash. I remember some companies would not issue checks if you were in Nevada.