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

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  1. RebelChick

    RebelChick Road Train Member

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    When you have a truck that you could get out and out run it up the hills like I do (and I DON'T run!), yeah, you can have those loads. It's not easy miles for me. They beat the heck out of me and take almost my entire 11 hour clock to get them there. I keep telling the shop there is something amiss with this truck, but, hey, what do I know. I'm just a dumb truck driver AND a girl to boot, so I don't know anything.

    You mean there's actually people <gasp> working today? OMG!!!!
     
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  3. Silverdriver

    Silverdriver Road Train Member

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    I was at Richmond at 7:00 AM standing in front of the window and there was only one. Maybe the big boss started making calls?
     
  4. Chrisnva

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    This is a lot of the info I was looking for. I tentatively stately orientation on the 17th. My one question is how many trainers smoke? I am a non smoker. And while I am not against smoking or being in a smokers truck and will not let that hold up my training.i relize this is your home when working and I am a guest. I would like to get a non smoker. Is this something that is possible?
     
  5. ExtremeUnction

    ExtremeUnction Road Train Member

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    They will specifically ask you if you want a smoking or non-smoking trainer, so you're okay there.
     
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  6. JohnBoy

    JohnBoy Road Train Member

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    The real question should be how many trainers don’t smoke. I know of 2. Me being one of the two. There’s only 10 of us that train. Right now I’m solo, doing a reset in California and will be leaving at 2am. I have hometime next week into the following week. If you aren’t on board by then, I’m quite sure by the time I get back to Richmond off of hometime, I’ll either be assigned a Trainee, or going out solo. I don’t ask for trainees, they are given to me. I’ll go months without one and that’s cool.
     
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  7. JohnBoy

    JohnBoy Road Train Member

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    They’ll take it early. D/H.
     
  8. 5speed

    5speed Road Train Member

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    Rough week? You want to talk about it? What's up?
     
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  9. Chrisnva

    Chrisnva Bobtail Member

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    Most everyone on this thread work at Abilene? Trish did ask me wether I smoked or not and asked what I preferred. I told her I preferred nonsmoking. But was not going to let that hold things up. I deal with a lot. It’s a short amount of time in the big picture.
     
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  10. Finfn1372

    Finfn1372 Road Train Member

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    I wish,this is a broker load not staples.
     
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  11. ExtremeUnction

    ExtremeUnction Road Train Member

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    Most of us, yeah. We get a few folks coming through here who don't, but the bulk of the posts here are done by Abilene drivers.
     
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