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

I catch myself doing that sometimes, actually. I'm coming out of a rest area, dude moves over so I can merge. I'm not really thinking about anything other than "Back on the freeway, let's get up to freeway speed." And then I notice the dude who let me merge is now falling back alongside my truck because I'm now passing him up. And then I realize "Oh, hey, I'm being a jerk." and I slow down and let him pass and merge back in front of me if he wants.

 

Question…
If I do remember correctly you are driving a Kenworth. How has it been working out for you?
I have a Freightliner and the shop had many electrical gremlins to get out…. I know Volvo had some also but I never heard nothing about Kenworth.

 

KW has been great for the most part. 326,808 miles on it and all but the first 400 were put on by me.

There was a bit a year ago where it spent a month in a shop in Phoenix while they rebuilt the engine. And I have to routinely top off the reservoir with coolant about once every 2-3 weeks. Aside from that, though, it's been solid. Hoping they wait until we're buying new KWs again before they sell this one out from under me.

 

No, I moved back to WV. I do miss those views though.

 

Delivered my bh load yesterday near Atlanta,sent to drop at americold,than come back to knight yard to take break.

2 hours into break phone rings,we need help,driver bringing a bh load down with 2 stops delivering this morning at 4 and 0700.Ok no problem,but abilene it's only paying 43 miles,and I'll be tied up a good part of the morning, with some discussions,we'll throw you an extra hundred.

We'll the preplan I was picking up,was being loaded by a driver,that was dropping it on the knight yard,going to Front Royal,found the trailer this morning,before I left,and sure enough it was empty,so ill spend my morning twiddling thumbs,not even mad just gotta smh sometimes.

 

Oh just a heads up,if your thru Atlanta,we can stay at the knight terminal, they have laundry,and nice showers,just ask the guardshack for a badge.

 

We’ll obviously something’s still not right with your truck if you add coolant every two to three weeks. The cooling system is an enclosed system, you shouldn’t have to keep topping it off. The coolant is going somewhere, if it isn’t visible, than it’s a head gasket, cracked head or a charge air cooler.

 

The book was given to me in 1973, while I was in the hospital, along with his book, "The Peter Prescription". The bottom line that I got out of the book was that people were promoted to jobs they were not competent enough to handle. These people were too proud to admit that the job was "over their heads" and really they were very unhappy in the jobs and made everybody around them unhappy because they did not know how handle people or how to communicate.

I spent several years in dispatch for Carolina Trailways, a union company. In Norfolk, Va there were over a hundred drivers, one thing I learned real fast, you do not treat every driver the same, the way most people think. You treat each driver according to their personality. Some drivers were always joking and "cutting up", others were all business, you met these drivers on their terms. Although the drivers were union and I had a contract to abide by, when you treat a man "on his grounds", you can get by with a hell of a lot.

 

Dropping this load at Richmond yard then doing a 34 over the weekend. My camera stayed on after that idiot brake checked me and won't go back off now so I called Paige in safety and found out I was on the list to have my camera replaced since I have an old one and it went on the fritz so Ill be having that replaced while at the Richmond yard.