From Day One - Abilene Motor Express (Richmond, Wytheville, VA)

Gnt if your going to have your wife with you I highly recommend the Volvo 780 it has tons of space and lots of room. I absolutely love it. Matter fact I don't think I'd take anything else. I bought a pillow top mattress yesterday got an awesome deal on it. It was a clearance. It's funny when a person looks at a 200 lb man asking for a twin pillow top mattress. And they ask if it's for my kids and I say no it's for me. Then I explain it's for the truck they say oh ok. Had fun getting it in the truck but it's in place and wife made the bed for me. I let my 3 yeR old grand son in the truck while I was getting clothes out to be washed. Once we left the truck he looks at me and says "Pap Pap I love you big truck" my daughter thinks it really nice on the inside but she says she don't care for the green . I told her as long as that green truck puts green in my pocket I don't care what color it is. Gotta get ready for Church be safe everyone.

 

Yes same here i brought a 2.5in topper as well works wonders. Mine came from SAMs club, but watch out for the cold cuz it becomes stiff like a block of ice

 

So for the second time in a year I got home the night before my appt, ends up always being a couple hours before. Took the kids to school, wife to work, my appt, went home and replaced a cpl pieces of slats in the fence, dug up a section of the yard to turn over and plant new grass, picked the kids up from school, picked the wife up from work then went back home for a nap. Why a nap? Well what does this driver do when he's not driving? We'll drive of course. Left at midnight to go down to Johnson City, TN to meet with a realtor. 7 hours down by car, hehe Scott can't see my speed, looked at some property then drove around exploring. Got back last night and grabbed my laundry. Left this morning to get to a new Walmart in East Brunswick, NJ. Got here at 7:15 and laughed at the unfinished dock. One O/O slept here and as we were watching the bulldozer dump gravel so we could dock it an ATS and 2 other Abilene's pulled in. They couldn't get it squared away and said they have to turn us away. After a couple hours I guess HP told them to figure it out or an inconvenience charge gets tacked on. One truck down, now I'm in the makeshift dock.

 

What is this?!?! On my way to Florida?? What sort of witchcraft is this??

 

Going to Publix in Deerfield? 2 hours after you check in they will call you with your door assignment, then 3 hours after that you'll be empty, all for a $205 dollar lumper fee.

 

Home time is over for now anyway. Got to the truck but everything in place did a pretrip while waiting on a load not on clock yet but when I was done had load on qual comm a Chr load from Kansas to Fredricksburg, va to a customer I will not name but is my absolute least favorite customer I've ever been to in my 8 + plus years of driving. But hey 1400 plus miles out of home time that includes empty miles. A great way to start a week. Nite all plz be safe.

 

Yeah I heard. At least I have 2 clocks to work off of. We stopped at the very nice Pilot at exit 1 in GA. George stop at this one sometime you will love it.

 

I agree with you BG about that Pilot. Its the nicest one I've ever been to.

 

I'm about 120 miles from destination. Have right at an hour lee way appt. time is 0830 but I'm sure I won't be out of there before noon. But can't complain a great start to the week. Nite all. Be safe

 

Up at the hotel as I had a laundry list of things that I have done temp repairs on until my PM. Saw the big bird truck so I guess Deuce is still at home. Since it's raining I jolted over to the BBQ place here. Pretty good and fair price. I had the pork chops and you get two, it was smothered in fried onions, love that. The cole slaw was good, the onion rings were standard store bulk buy. The jalapeño poppers were standard but good. I give them a thumbs up, place you can park the truck up here.