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

Eh yeah. Sounds it. You pretty much burned the bridge. I had to do that with a company here when I first moved up. Massive flood in Houston and flew back to help family out. It is what it is. Call em anyways and ask.

 

Sounds like a recipe for back end of a trailer clipping someone in the next lane over during the turn. I mean unless we'really supposed to hog all four or five lanes since I hear they're only one way. What all does Abilene deliver anyhow that would require us to be moving through the boroughs? I figured pickups would be from warehouses. I mean unless that's what we're talking about. They seem like a company that runs on accounts. I've seen the Boar's Head factory in Brooklyn via Google maps. I can see how that can be annoying.

 

@460/580 Check out PanAmerican Coffee in Hoboken, NJ. If coming north on the NJTP it is exit 18 (I believe). They are the last exit before entering the Lincoln Tunnel. Very nerve racking seeing the signs saying 13' tunnel ahead. If you miss the turn. You are screwed.

Check out this google map. Look at the overhead door on your right. That is a single dock that is not quite 2 docks wide. More like 1.5 docks wide. I was there 3 times back around 2004/2005. The first time it took me 45 minutes. The second time it took about 20. The last time it took about 10 minutes. They have dock workers that spot you.

Google Map arial view for them.
https://goo.gl/maps/7y5rzaSjp9n

Google Map street view. It is the overhead door on the right.
https://goo.gl/maps/iXNmw7SQz1m

 

ah ok. and what does it mean street unload? groups of people literally coming out and unloading by hand?

 

I guess turn right, then start backing to the left or what? I see cars in the way. 30th street exit?

I'm hoping these companies spot you out there.

 

Usually involves forklifts and lots of hand waving and profanity. I always stay in the cab when it looks hairy. Can't get any blame if stuff gets dropped.

 

We have main accounts, but will also pickup and deliver anything that pays well enough. Cars, antique furniture, busted shopping carts and old clothes hangers to name a few.

 

Oh yeah. Best one yet for me was being parked on a barely two-lane out in the cowlands of SE Virginia while teams of guys hauled down Christmas trees and loaded 'em one by one. Wasn't two square feet of airspace left when they were done, didn't weight quite 30k. But bring your manual handbills though.

 

My favorite one so far was a broken bowling pin resetting machine from a bowling alley that was being sent back to a robotics factory in Kentucky.

The trips to the shopping cart graveyard in Danville are also amusing.

 

That shopping cart place has the coolest handwashing setup I've seen at a customer yet. It's not the technological marvel that is BH Groveport, but it wins on style points.

Don't know if you have ever been tempted to take the short route from Danville to wytheville that Google maps recommends, but I really wouldn't recommend it.