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

I was in the Navy for twenty years and I think this job is a lot harder. I do wish you could have been my trainer though. Maybe I would be better at backing.

 

Yeah, but at the end of the training period, you're left working for Schneider.

I was in training 6 weeks. It wasn't bad. It wasn't the greatest time of my life in terms of personal space, personal privacy, and restful sleep. But I'm a big boy and I coped. And I learned a lot. I can't even imagine going out on the road after only a week of training. So many things I learned in weeks 2-6 that I wouldn't have learned in one week of training.

And at the end of my 6 weeks, I was a driver for Abilene. No company is perfect, and you will certainly hear tales here of the occasional recto-cranial inversion, or of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, etc. But for the most part I have have found Abilene to be a very satisfactory place to work. My truck is nice, the money is good, I have a good relationship with my fleet manager and my dispatchers, and I have only once had a problem getting the hometime I requested (and that wasn't a big problem, and I got an extra day of hometime out of it). I am not micromanaged. I don't have to provide updates and ETAs and all that crap. They give me a load assignment and tell me when I have to be there. And as long as I get it there safely and on time, they're not going to be too fussed about much else.

Easily worth the 6 weeks of training.

 

Schneider used to be a top training company. No longer, and the limited road time with a trainer is the key reason. I'm a lease op with them, and I see the results frequently. Another reason I'm getting out at years end.

 

Thank you, I appreciate that. John also sent me a text to a place in Palisade that is also looking like a good stop.

 

I'm afraid it's more a general sign o' the times. Sad.

 

Exit 42, right? Someone tell me where it is, because I tried spotting it from the freeway and couldn't see it. I played it safe and spent the night a bit further away at a brand new Pilot in Grand Junction.