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

I ended up stopping about 20 miles from my delivery in the morning. Parking was starting to get very scarce. I found a Pilot that wasn't too bad for parking, so I jumped over it.

Appointment is at 8am, I'm leaving around 6am, to get there in plenty of time.

I wasn't sure if I could make this work with HP delaying this load 12hrs, but trip planned carefully and got myself in good position for an on time delivery... My very first one, lol. ( very first load that is... Ever.)

 

If delivery is to an existing store and I will get there late enough in the evening that they are unlikely to get any other deliveries I will chance going there and asking if I can park out of the way. If it is a new build then it will be a construction site and they may not want you hanging around. I did get lucky once and got there just as they were packing up and they said I could stay if I didn't mind getting locked in.

I woke up the next morning and saw a bunch of trucks stacked up outside the locked gates and struggled to disguise the smug look on my face as I rolled past them to unload.

 

You look kind of familiar ChrisL, have you ever approached an abilene driver at the fuel pumps in IL (think it was Pontoon Beach) about 4 months ago asking about the company?

 

Nope, lol.

By the looks of the facility via Google, it's some sort of a small industrial cooling company I'm delivering to. It's only two small units. Load only weighs 1400 lbs.

 

It's probably a contractor's facility, we sometimes deliver to them rather than on site. There is one in fond du lac I have been to a couple times. If you ever go there, there is a loves a mile away, but the quick trip on the other side of the highway is much better as they have laundry facilities and parking lot wifi.

 

I've been there too. The folks at the place are really nice. That quick trip has an awesome food selection as well. Kind of like a mini grocery store as well as having quite a bit of convenience foods. I stayed at the Loves for a shower and then moved over to the quick trip to shop. That area up there is really nice when there's none of that nasty four letter word happening.

 

Took me a while to figure out which 4 letter word you meant. The first one that came to mind ticked me off as I never got any of that both times I was there.

 

Snow. Winter is definitely NOT my favorite time of the year in any sense of the word. Nothing to do with being a driver either, as I've said before.

 

I don't mind snow. Ice sucks.

After a Russian Roulette of building hunting, I finally got docked and a being unloaded. My #### QC decided that I should have been driving and switched me in error. I really can't stand machines trying to comprehend human thinking and decision making. If I weren't so in need of work, I'd quit because of the sheer inaccuracies of these things. I thought paper logs were "the greatest fiction novel ever written". I was gravely mistaken.

Any way, let's see if they forget my home time again or not.

 

Yeah, I love it up here. Always have. Cool start to the morning too. 52f when I woke up.

I know where you all are talking about. Drove all around that area when I was in Roehl's orientation based out of Appleton.