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

JohnBoy · May 3, 2017

Wegmans DC, Rochester NY.

chralb · May 3, 2017

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You're giving them far more credit than they deserve.

mitrucker · May 3, 2017

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OMG!!!!!

Barn Door Bill · May 3, 2017

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...well, ####.

Evomalo · May 3, 2017

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Thanks JohnBoy for the image. That's something that can't be unseen.

Redtwin · May 3, 2017

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Ok, so we left off with me sitting bobtail at the Flying J waiting for the trucking God's to bestow their great wisdom upon me. And boy .... did they ever!

At 12 noon I get a call from my DM. He tells me to go back to Wegman's (46 miles), pick up the trailer with product left on it, the "completed" signed off paperwork and then end my trip (and hence my detention time) and then take the trailer to Carrier (on that 8 mile DH) to get that reefer report (download) back to the 25th when the trip started in CA. Ok, off I go. When I get to Wegman's and through security, I stop by the trailer just to make sure all is well (not that I'm the un-trusting sort mind you) and yep, running continuous set at 35 and showing 34.8. I snapped a picture of it. I also noticed it was down to a 1/4 tank of fuel.

Then I head inside to the window guy and explain the whole thing to him as he sits listening intensely to every word. When I finish, he tells me I need to go to the next door down. (Another wasted 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back.) LOL ... So I go to the "next door" and bother a guy on a computer who tells me to wait and he'll take care of me. 15 minutes later he walks me out to a desk and asks yet another guy (Union shop ya know ) what's going on with my trailer. This other guy says follow me. We walk the entire length of the warehouse so this guy, can ask yet another guy, what's going on with my trailer. Seriously?? 4 guys and no answers?? So this 4th guy walks me all the way back to where we started and goes into a small office. (no wonder why Unions take 50 times longer and cost 100 times more than anyone else to get anything done ... eh?)

After about 10 minutes he comes out with .... no, not any "completed" paperwork .... but a release form for me to now take the trailer off the property and go get the reefer report and then ... get this ... bring it back to be inspected by the USDA which, by the way, can't happen until tomorrow as it's once again too late in the afternoon now. Seriously??? I tell this Chump ... err ... .... really nice guy ... that, while sitting at their dock yesterday, I had a DH order to take it and get that report and they wouldn't let me take the trailer off the property. Why? He shrugged and said, I don't know, that's how they do things here.

So, I tell them I'm not touching that trailer until my company gives me the go ahead. I inform dispatch of everything including the need for fuel. While waiting for an answer I call the Reefer place which is only 7 miles away, and find out that it'll be at least 3 to 4 hours before they can get me in for the report. Great! My DM gets back to me and says absolutely get fuel first. Of course the closest place to get that fuel is .... yep, you guessed it, right back to that Flying J 46 miles away in the opposite direction of the Reefer place.

So, I get the go ahead and off I go to fuel, turn around and head to the Carrier dealer and here I sit waiting for the download to begin. I never ended the trip so the detention clock is still ticking since 2pm yesterday (28 hours and counting) and I've been assured that they'll ..... "take care of me".

While here I've learned a couple interesting things. First, when we have a need for a "reefer report" (or download), they can either convert it to a PDF for emailing (which in this case could be 100's pages to go back to the 26th when the trip started), OR, we have what's known as the "Reefer Manager" program. The service place can download that info directly to that via email to Joe.

Second, we have a "Carrier Priority Account" and we DO NOT call Volvo breakdown for payment. The service place is to bill that account directly. You can get the account number from our office.

So, after all that is done, I'm to be back at Wegman's between 08:00 and 09:00 tomorrow as that's when the inspector will be there to tell me I now have liquid veggies in my trailer!

Are we having fun yet?
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This is why the last reefer I will ever pull, on a CPM basis anyway, will have "Abilene Motor Express " written on it.

Life is too short to put up with that caliber of #######ery, especially when it isn't assured that your time will be compensated.

Barnabas Collins · May 3, 2017

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That's what you call a drop and hook!

ExtremeUnction · May 3, 2017

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I don't need any confirmation. I'm going on what I was told coming in. The only question then is, will they keep their word? If they want me to keep driving for them (and maybe they don't), they will.

After spending all night last night trying to dig up all the information the Carrier place needed which, by the way, could have been handled by those who already knew with ONE phone call THREE days prior to me getting there, i get back to Wegmans and they know nothing about any USDA inspection on this load.

Folks, I'm now beyond livid!!
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JohnBoy · May 3, 2017

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Here it is, the reply of the week.

JohnBoy · May 3, 2017

Barnabas Collins said: ↑

That's what you call a drop and hook!
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Let @chralb tell you what the meaning of that picture is.

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