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

Just got the ok to drop this load at our Colton yard. Good, now we can get back a day earlier. The way our dispatch is set up I won't know what I'm doing next until tomorrow afternoon. Why should the driver be in the loop?

 

Thats it in a nutshell. You'll see up and down the I-95 corridor, Chicago, occasional Texas and Colorado. And a bunch of the NE. The miles are right, and living off 360 is a bonus.

 

Got somewhat of a preplan for tomorrow. I'll drop this loaded trailer in the Colton yard, grab an empty reefer and drive the 4 miles to drop and hook a produce load that will be ready at 4 pm going back to gordonsville va for Saturday morning. I was given the pickup number but the rest of the load info will be sent to me after I arrive at the shipper.

 

It seems to me the problems with dispatch are solely a lack of communication issue. I just don't get it, but maybe that's how it's intended to be.

 

Happy New Year everyone. Be safe and may this year be healthy and prosperous.

 

Orientation is done only in Richmond. It's 2 full days. They put you up in the motel right up the street from the terminal and feed you lunch. The road test is very simple and straight forward. You'll leave the yard, drive 6 miles south on 95 to one of our biggest customers, pull into their lot, back into a spot and that's it. Think of an automatic as just like your car, put it in drive and go. I'm not so old school that I don't enjoy the ease of an automatic. I've driven automatics the last 5 years, nothing beats drinking a cup of coffee coming over the GW Bridge at 6am while not having to shift.