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

The Roanoke scale is easy to bypass.

 

From last Friday to last night me and dude next to me ran 7100 miles. Still having issues hitting the ocean, but hey, it'll happen one day.

I blew up the message center the night before last and yesterday morning. Had zero remorse about throwing some dickwad driver under the bus.

Deadheaded 625 miles from Jupiter Fl to Havertys in Bradenton, rain the whole way up there, a tight schedule and an overnight run to Memphis. Our 9pm load was finally done at 11pm. We hook up to the trailer, check it out and bingo, one of the trailer tires is not only flat, but blown out and shredded. I went nuts, called night dispatch, QC'ed everyone one that I could think of, and the following morning, followed up my messages with phone calls. I was assured it was being addressed. We had an 8am delivery and got there at 8:30 after loosing 2.5 hours to get a new tire put on. Sorry folks, as a trainer, I have a responsibility to show my trainees how things are done correctly, not doing a post trip and leaving a tire issue from your watch fir the next driver is something that drives me nuts. I don't know what the outcome was, but I sure hope it was good.

 

We are now stage 2, so yes we are. 10 more days and my job will be finished with Charlie. Then solo for 10 days then off to Alaska.