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

#The last two times that I was at the yard it was absolutely refreshing looking in the maintenance shop and seeing work being done. Thanks maint shop for your work. Oh in case you haven't noticed they have load lock racks on the new trucks.#

 

YD, I know all about him. We used to run the same routes when we could. Plus I told him to take the cush job as I knew he could handle just as good or better than anyone there.

 

Sitting in Stuartt, fl just finished a 34 restart now waiting on a load. This is where I get frustrated. The planners knew I was doing a 34 and can see when its up. There is no reason I shouldn't already have a load but hey this is rare that this happens.

 

Nice.....20 minutes from my house. I'll be there Thursday late afternoon to start my home time.

 

It's been a crazy week after I completed my 34 restart in Florida I dead headed to Homerville, Ga then went Richmond yard where I found out my truck was sold so I had to switch to a different truck so now I'm in truck 1415 it had 272k miles and the inside was immaculate really clean. The fairing on driver side is messed up but George in body shop has them on order said 2-4 weeks. But other than that nice truck thanks Bill gor the upgrade should be able to stay in it for atleast 2 years.

 

Ok so I got the truck on Wed got a load to Plainfield, In on Thursday heading up the road the A/C stops working. Turn truck off for 10 minutes starts working again. Go down road again stops working again so go to Volvo in Dayton, Oh explain whats going on then a tech comes to me and begins to explain how to turn on A/C like it was my first time in a Volvo. I asked if I looked that #### dumb. I told them when I got there that once I turned truck off after 10 minutes it would work again.

 

So they supposedly said something was loose and the fixed it. Well 10 minutes down the road stops blowing again. So I just turned off A/C button after 10 minutes it starts blowing again. Turn A/C back on after 10 minutes stops blowing again.

 

So now that I figure that blower stops blowing once A/C is on after 20 minutes stops blowing I get out my Ipad so I now have it on video so when I get in shop in the morning I don't t get that he's lost his mind and there's nothing wrong with it. So got like 5 videos for them to see what I'm talking about. What I don't understand is once I'm stopped and A/C is working it will work all nite long but once I start down the road stops working again. Just glad I have it all on video. Some of the drivers that have many years of driving experience all seem to think its dryer and its freezing up then when I turn ac off the heat of engine only takes a few minutes to unfreeze therefore works again. So Berry will be here in the morning and I'm sure he'll figure it out.

 

And now my outlets cut off after only a couple hours with only phone charging and fan. In my other two trucks never had them cut off after 12 hours. I'm sure that one or ywo of the batteries are dead. But sure that will address that in the morning.

 

So just to be clear I don't blame Bill or Abilene. Since all this emissions stuff they now have on trucks they have caused nothing but trouble for the entire trucking industry. Trucks need 5 times more than before all these emission stuff. Well going to bed. Be safe everyone