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

I train, live in south Florida, and my trainee lives in Plymouth Nc. When it's my home time I drop my trainee off at the richmond yard, he gets in his car at the terminal and drives home. I get a load off the yard and go home. The only issue is he gets an extra 3 days off for his home time based on my going home then coming back up to get him in richmond.

 

Have you been wondering lately like I have, just exactly when is this winter going to end?

We got done about noon local time at the cold storage facility in riverside yesterday. There was 5 of us there getting empty. One of the team trucks there was a truck that we kept passing all day Sunday and Sunday night. I drove the 3 miles to the fuel stop up from our drop yard to grab something to munch on while waiting on the next load assignment. It finally came, I need to be in Oceanside today at 10am to load going back to richmond. It delivers Friday morning. I hope to be in Thursday about noon, depending on this next storm.

George got to see the bad side of me yesterday, I hit the roof when I finally got my load info. I put in for my hometime 2.5 weeks ago to be home this Thursday, coming back out on Monday. In my little world I do my thing as put forth by company policy, what's good for me is good for you, I do my part, they didn't do theirs. If I'm lucky, I'll be home Friday. Unacceptable. With all the medical issues my wife is going through, I need to be there. I know this is trucking, but fortunately for myself I have the ways and means to fly home Thursday and come back for my truck next Tuesday. It's an option I'm considering. I flipped out yesterday, George was in the wrong place at the wrong time, I told him maybe he should go with another trainer to finish up his training. He knows how I feel about all this, my family and home far outweigh anything associated with this truck, load, or industry. I'll do my job, you do yours. If at any one time you fail at your end, I'm going to correct it on my end. My birthday on Thursday, my anniversary on Friday pale in comparison to the other issues I have going on. Just to put salt in my wound, my family is putting my favorite Aunt into Hospice. In the grand scheme of life, just how important can this load of Salsa really be? Just wondering. Time to go find George and head down to oceanside. Last week when we were here if took 8 hours to put on 22 pallets, can hardly wait to see what's in store for today.

 

Well, got here at 9:45 for a 10:00 appointment. As I thought, my product won't be ready until after 4pm. I'm really pissed off, this is a team truck, not a solo truck. My trip number is from last week, you call for a truck at a certain time and the product isn't ready? For a load that was booked last week? If you knew about this load last week, then was it really a surprise when I showed up today, based on YOUR schedule? What a joke, this whole industry is one screwed up entity. Light at the end of the tunnel? 2 years and 2 days from right now I'm done. My birthday on Thursday has far more meaning to me then normal. I'll be that much closer to hanging this sheet up.

Can you all tell I'm just a little P.O'd?