ESTES Express (5 Year Review)

mjd4277 · May 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM

KaoMinerva said: ↑

It's that time again guys where we talk about Estes and all the shenanigans... And there WILL BE SHENANIGANS! So...

Day 1 is one of those... Welp, it's Estes days. Typical dispatch you can expect to Knoxville right? Ok... But it gets... Estes'd up! I leave home I'm on my way to Knoxville. I pull over at a pilot to get some ice water and a guy flags me down saying my tire is leaking oil... Ok. I go look and the passenger side steer hub seal has somehow popped or something. Don't ask me man idk. I leave to go to the TA Express like 15 or so minutes up the road figuring they have a shop, easy fix. Wrong.

NO SHOP!

I call breakdown and they say it's a 90 minute wait for the guy to show up. Ok, it's around midnight, I can wait a bit right? Yeah ok lol. The guy shows up AND HE HAS NO TOOLS OR ANYTHING TO FIX ANYTHING. I was waiting almost 2 hours on this guy. He's calling around trying to find the part, but nothing is open Sunday might going into Monday morning. I'm screwed and less than 2 hours from the Knoxville terminal in Cookeville.

Breakdown decides to tow me back to Nashville. This is around like 0245 when I'm told the tow guy will come. Ok, just wait and I'll be fine maybe I can push it through. Not at Estes you won't lol. Hour and change later I get a call from breakdown asking what's going on... No call no nothing from anyone. Breakdown is upset and hangs up. Wrecker calls and says he just got the call (hour + 15 minutes later) and he will be on the way.

Talk to breakdown again and he's apologetic but I just say "it's Estes man" and we both laugh. Wrecker shows up around 0520 we get hooked and rolling. To sum it all up because I'm tired and took 2 Advil PM... Sat almost 6 hours and got towed to Nashville.

Home - Nashville, TN (240 miles)

Next day (yesterday) simpler

Nashville, TN - Orlando, FL (641 miles)
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I guess it was your day to draw the short stick!lol

MACK E-6 · May 19, 2026 at 8:05 PM

KaoMinerva said: ↑

It's that time again guys where we talk about Estes and all the shenanigans... And there WILL BE SHENANIGANS! So...

Day 1 is one of those... Welp, it's Estes days. Typical dispatch you can expect to Knoxville right? Ok... But it gets... Estes'd up! I leave home I'm on my way to Knoxville. I pull over at a pilot to get some ice water and a guy flags me down saying my tire is leaking oil... Ok. I go look and the passenger side steer hub seal has somehow popped or something. Don't ask me man idk. I leave to go to the TA Express like 15 or so minutes up the road figuring they have a shop, easy fix. Wrong.

NO SHOP!

I call breakdown and they say it's a 90 minute wait for the guy to show up. Ok, it's around midnight, I can wait a bit right? Yeah ok lol. The guy shows up AND HE HAS NO TOOLS OR ANYTHING TO FIX ANYTHING. I was waiting almost 2 hours on this guy. He's calling around trying to find the part, but nothing is open Sunday might going into Monday morning. I'm screwed and less than 2 hours from the Knoxville terminal in Cookeville.

Breakdown decides to tow me back to Nashville. This is around like 0245 when I'm told the tow guy will come. Ok, just wait and I'll be fine maybe I can push it through. Not at Estes you won't lol. Hour and change later I get a call from breakdown asking what's going on... No call no nothing from anyone. Breakdown is upset and hangs up. Wrecker calls and says he just got the call (hour + 15 minutes later) and he will be on the way.

Talk to breakdown again and he's apologetic but I just say "it's Estes man" and we both laugh. Wrecker shows up around 0520 we get hooked and rolling. To sum it all up because I'm tired and took 2 Advil PM... Sat almost 6 hours and got towed to Nashville.

Home - Nashville, TN (240 miles)

Next day (yesterday) simpler

Nashville, TN - Orlando, FL (641 miles)
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I had routing today which meant backtracking all over myself. Then Stupid in the office sends me 20 miles out of the way to a residential pickup I can’t get to when another driver would be riding right by there anyway on his way up the road.

Good one skippy.

hotrod1653 · May 19, 2026 at 8:42 PM

MACK E-6 said: ↑

I had routing today which meant backtracking all over myself. Then Stupid in the office sends me 20 miles out of the way to a residential pickup I can’t get to when another driver would be riding right by there anyway on his way up the road.

Good one skippy.
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Seeing that, makes NOT miss P&D. XPO would do that crap all the time.

doglover44 · May 20, 2026 at 6:16 PM

What terminal is the biggest ?

KaoMinerva · May 20, 2026 at 7:21 PM

doglover44 said: ↑

What terminal is the biggest ?
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Man I can't call it

KaoMinerva · May 21, 2026 at 6:27 AM

Time for another edition of... It's Estes YAY!

DAY 3

Pretty simple day...

Orlando, FL - Boynton Beach, FL (206 miles)
Repeat (206 miles)
Orlando, FL - Jacksonville, FL (146 miles)

Now, here we go again.

Jacksonville, FL - Savannah, GA (147 miles)

Now, from here I'm supposed to go to Athens, GA right? On the way there, A FREAKING BLOWOUT. It took 3.5 hours for someone to come out and fix the tire. At this point I got like 5 hours and some change left with the clock ticking. It's H E L L getting to Athens on all those stupid start stop back roads.

Savannah, GA - Athens, GA (207 miles)

Leave there going back to Atlanta, and get held up by midnight road pavers. Clock is TICKING.

Athens, GA - Atlanta, GA (75 MILES)

Bro, all together it was like 428 miles BUT IT TOOK ME 13.5 HOURS BRO!

BEYOND PISSED!

mani7grewal · May 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM

Is it possible to park my truck to my closer terminal(20miles) rather than the home terminal(60 miles)?

KaoMinerva · May 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM

mani7grewal said: ↑

Is it possible to park my truck to my closer terminal(20miles) rather than the home terminal(60 miles)?
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I mean that's pretty odd. Why aren't you just at the closer one? They'll probably just steal your truck anyways.

mani7grewal · May 21, 2026 at 2:07 PM

Because the closer terminal don’t have the opening for extra board

KaoMinerva · May 21, 2026 at 3:36 PM

mani7grewal said: ↑

Because the closer terminal don’t have the opening for extra board
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I wouldn't recommend it. I don't think you can do that because they'll just end up using your truck.

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