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

Don't know how this will affect you all. If I remember right you do Walmart and Amazon loads. Walmart tells truckers if you want to haul their loads no doing amazon loads.
It Begins: WalMart Warns Truckers It Will No Longer Work With Them If They Move Goods For Amazon | Zero Hedge

 

Awwww, boohoo!

There's a new kid in town.
I don't wanna hear it.
There's a new kid in town.
I don't wanna hear it.

 

I didn't know we hauled Amazon, I know I never had a load billed as such.

 

If walmart puts the screws on truck companies that haul Amazon so much so that Amazon can't service their customers adequately that may force Amazon to form their own private fleet.

Doesn't sound too bad if it means the creation of thousands of new driving/trucking jobs.

 

Or it may push those drivers to stop hauling Walmarts crap and move to hauling exclusively Amazon. Who the heck wants to be stuck at a WM DC for 4-6 hours unloading? Or at their stores? Amazon is pretty quick to load/unload most of the time, even though they floor load. IMO Walmart is trying to be a big bully, and it just might backfire on them. I saw on Facebook yesterday a rumor about all Walmarts not letting drivers park overnight. Again, just a rumor, but who knows. Eventually it might just become reality for those not delivering Walmart freight.

 

Walmart has never allowed overnight @ their DC's as far as parking @ the stores, the drivers themselves have screwed that up.

 

Hopefully truckers and the american consumer dont end up like the small countries of ww2 europe. Trying to pick the winner but still getting your country destroyed no matter who you picked.

My bets on amazon. Just look at the malls, sears, macys etc. Giant, nonspecialty brick and morter just aint gonna survive like it has in the past.

The amazon dcs are amazing. I got the chance to get an inside tour of one of the ones that handles small items. The efficiency and quality control is crazy and they could automate them even further.

 

Yesterday was quite the day. 8am get sent to recover a load on the side of i78 eb near 287 in nj. I was on long island. Call the driver, turns out hes been broke down all night, road service couldnt fix the air/brakes issue. Coordinate with breakdown to get there about the same time as tow truck does.

Turns out the kw in nj cant look at truck till friday so they are towing to pa. Per the tow guy, he cant tow a truck and trailer into pa.

So this leaves 1 empty van, 1 loaded reefer, 1 working truck, and 1 nonworking truck. Cant exactly leave either on roadside, and gonna be crazy expensive for tow to wait for me to run to halls drop and come back.

Dm finally passes me up a level in dispatch so we can try to work this out. Ended up getting a bobtail truck from tow company to pull reefer to closest truckstop that we both could fit in. Managed to get both parked side by side so i could block both.

Later on in the afternoon finally another driver shows up to get the van, and i head off for everyones favorite nyc customer.