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

I sent JohnBoy a message ahead of time, he hooked me up with a suite!

 

Finally here to post orientation, i mean mandatory safety meeting, notes.

CSA scores are below threshold

Cameras help protect drivers against others bad driving and increase insurance payouts

Cameras catch driver misbejavior. Listed was handheld devices, seatbelts, speeding, hard breaking

Police are becoming more aware of elogs,hos, and specifically off duty driving. Drivers who routinely break rules may start loosing privledges, up to and including driving for abilene

Dont leave truck unlocked or keys in ignition, and if a shipper gives you instructions, follow them.

Dont post on social media cargo, destination, specific routing, times, etc

Take pictures of crashes, get witnesses if possible, qualcomm and contact safety.

Legibly and accurately fill out dvirs, leave truck on yard if it needs service with no pets.

Keep up with pm, atleast somebody was 20k over

Road service for tires is for steers, please limp to repair shop if possible for other issues. Bring old one back to yard.

Know where u are when calling breakdown.

All requests for reimbursements or payouts(detention, layover,breakdown) need to be on transflo and qc

Scale tickets by efs still need a reciept transfloed in

Do qualcomm arrivals and departures in timely manner. Shippers can see that stuff and judge our ontime arrivals by that

Help receuiting by making referals, they pay money for ppl who take a solo load

They want more trainers

New hr lady Anita is trying to add more content to the website for employees

Rep from united healthcare talked about different programs.

Several Joneses said in varying words...hi im a jones, thanks for what you do

No q and a session, no earth shattering news,

 

So basically, common sense stuff with free BBQ at the end.

 

Got to meet Jerry, had a nice chat in the lobby.

 

Yea. Pretty much. Good place to visitif you like antique trucks and tractors

 

Gambled, and lost. Sitting at a rest stop in Alabama after driving illegal to find a legal parking spot after my delivery point was not found. Although, I may be illegally parked.

Drove by delivery point, dark and fenced off. Had to leave. Closest truck stop was over full, so, headed to closest rest area. Sign upon entering said overnight parking prohibited. (I'll have to write my governor a nasty letter about this.) So, I'm not only parked, but medicated for the night, praying that some wannabe security type doesn't start knocking on my door in a few hours, because I WON'T be nice.

Anyway, night all and safe travels!

 

I'm guilty of this. But, in my defense, when I have to wait minutes for my QC to respond, I get bored easily.

 

How's that working out for you, @MidWest_MacDaddy? Did you ever get paid for my referral?