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

Discussion in 'Discuss Your Favorite Trucking Company Here' started by JohnBoy, Apr 10, 2013.

  1. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    Just a couple options to needing to do that over hometime.... take check book with you and mail from the road... or pay it via your automatic payments via your back, if they offer that option.

    And yes, cdl school in '12 and 6 months experience, they will consider you... might require a few weeks refresher but unless something pops in your history I'm sure they would take a serious look at you.

    As someone mentioned above, they took me straight out of CDL School.
     
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  3. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    Easy, yes... but then I assume you are not taking your full legal allowance?
     
  4. MidWest_MacDaddy

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    And then on top of that,
    they made you a trainer...
    ugh... SMH



    :D
     
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  5. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    I think she's a gypsy at heart... :D
     
  6. Rocknroller4

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    I was watching some video of a guy at Swift talking about how this Werner company driver was making 12-1400 a week running dedicated but naturally he had not seen home time for almost 4 months. If I was to do that at Abilene would the pay be in that range? I've seen some people make it good at places like Werner. Not interested in being an owner op.
     
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  7. 460/580

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    @Drivencrazy the nyc delivery ur talking about where the tractor blocks atleast one lane of a 2way busy street, theres 6 inches on each side of trailer before you hit the walls and the reefer tank doesnt even make it into the building. Ive never done that.

    Out of 30 trips to nyc or long island theres only 3 docks i routinely bump and all trips have been carrying 2 customers freight. Ive bumped about 12 docks and all are somewhat designed for trucks. Door 1 at bh brooklyn in daytime is the worst. Alot of hill phoenix goes in on lift gate 48 ft with street unload.

    Abilene is a unique company which ill talk about in another post. But trust me. Nyc with abilene isnt as bad as alot of nyc trucking.
     
  8. ExtremeUnction

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    Man. I have a hard enough time trying to work in my romantic impulses around my infrequent and irregular unscheduled hometime.
     
  9. 460/580

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    Technically abilene is 48 canada if it fits it ships nonhazmat carrier. But in reality we are much more like a private fleet for a select number of direct customers and brokers,some large some small. If you read through pages here and there across the whole thread you will see the same citys and customers mentioned over and over and over.

    Brokers are used to move trucks around when we dont have a direct customer to haul for.

    We dont generally haul just any cheap ol crap going to the worst places imaginable.
     
  10. Rocknroller4

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    Does Abilene see a lot of the midwest? Like OK, TX, Missouri etc?
     
  11. JohnBoy

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    Yes we do. Abilene is much more then North East. Our main avenue is I-40. Satellite terminals in West Memphis, Wytheville Va and one under construction at one of our biggest customers in Indiana. We don't have what is called dedicated lanes for drivers, but if you are here long enough, you will see the same lanes, same customers and same freight. I will only use myself as an example. I enjoy running one of our LTL loads off our loading dock in Richmond. I run up to the NW starting with drops that take me all weekend to get to my first drop. Then start dropping every day until empty. Then its a broker load back to the Va area, then grab a load off the yard with one of our biggest customers freight, home to Florida.

    I will add this, yet again. I look at the big picture for me. I live in South Florida, Florida is a heavy freight lane for us, I'm able to go home anytime I want. As a solo driver, getting home every 2-2.5 weeks, I made 65K, add in the training I also did and it came to 81K.

    I get a chuckle when I read someone say they are going to retire at their new driving job, with all of 5 years under their belt. I'm at the end of my career, still have it in me and plan on retiring in a few more years. My retirement is taken care of in a lot of areas, and I for one have said, if Abilene doesn't run me off, I'll end my career here, AKA, retire.

    This particular job is more then "how much do you make per mile", "how fast are the trucks" "is it forced dispatch", "do you go to NYC", "do you have driver facing cameras". For me? I'm left alone to do my job, work with and for some really good folks, get home when I want and earn a pretty decent coin. And one last thing, I've gotten a raise every year since I started her, including one for my 4th year anniversary that takes effect next week.

    Thiis all might change tomorrow, but while it's moving along like it is, I'm good.
     
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