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

Dude... like I'm sorry man... I honestly thought my backing was improving too... geesh

 

Winner of the "nature" prize.

 

if only Scott knew that help was available and offered and refused... then the boo boo... oh I think we could hear Scott offsite during that chat...

No need for the private conference room for that one... walls will not help.

Hopefully a lesson was learned.

I needed help today ... thankfully the dock hand knew it was my first time there and saw that I was all jacked up on my first attempt. Whew.

 

Making me drool dude.

 

I dropped at indy an hour ago. Hope you get something out of there. I didnt, so I am camping at the mud hole pretending to be a pilot parking lot 7 miles away.

 

Oh come now... with these high tech tools... that would never happen...

 

I just never get the right combo of loads to stop early or have to stop too soon... I like it in theory but I doubt I could make it work here.

 

Ok... my day...

Left yard to run just a couple hours south do I could get my 10 in before the four drop day begins... parked and waited. (Due to a traffic jam in a construction area I wasn't going to get my 10 so planned a split 8/2 that I referenced earlier)

Because the other driver wanted to put a single case on my truck cause we were both going to the same place, I rolled out later than hoped.

A tad late to the second stop but I call to let them know... left for the third and hit flood water around whiteville, NC... US 74 closed so I tried to go around... it was flooded too and they don't say so until you get up on it... then had to back up and turn around... ugh.

Got to 3rd drop like 3 hours late... nice guy lived close by so he came back to unload his product... whew.

Heading to SC and shut down... will not be onsite until the time for the drop so I will be starting my clocks a bit earlier than one would hope.

Stopped at Walmart to restock... wow... this place took a hit... empty shelves... they lost power for some time so all the milk and frozen goods can't be sold...

So blue skies, white clouds, and cool breezes but I got to see the flood waters and empty shelves left by Mathew.

Oh and got to drive through some water overflowing a bridge too... that was new.

Stay Safe

 

Anyone know the place in Clinton, IA? Where you need to snake the trailer in? With the great help of @5speed (he grew me a diagram on where exactly to go) it wasn't too bad. Blind side in the last half where cars are located and the Mississippi River on the other side literally 10 feet away.

Got loaded, and now sit in SE Ohio on 35, about 450 miles from dropping this trailer on the yard tomorrow afternoon. Load isn't due until Wednesday.

My DM mentioned to me about getting my truck "winterized" while I'm there... Hmmm.

I have hometime scheduled and approved for this weekend too.

 

Top up the windshield washer fluid?.