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

Spent the night at BH Groveport. Dropped off a load last night that wasn't due until this morning, but I got a message on the QC yesterday telling me to deliver ASAP. I was already in the process of doing that anyways, with every intention of finishing yesterday's driving day at BH Groveport, so that worked out pretty well.

When 9:00am rolled around and I hadn't been given a new load assignment, I sent 'em a QC message to remind them of my existence.

When 11:00am rolled around and I hadn't been given a new load assignment, I sent 'em another QC message informing them that, while BH Groveport is lovely this time of year, I felt that we'd grown apart and it was time for me to move on. So if they could get me rolling, that would be swell.

A few minutes later, I got a load assignment. So that worked.

Load assignment: Grab an empty reefer out of BH and take it to Crawfordsville, IN for an 11:00pm live load. No problem. I will leave early, hit the Pilot on the south side of Indy for some chicken tikki masala from the Indian restaurant across the street, and then roll out in time for my 11:00pm appointment tonight.

Rolled onto the BH yard and talked to a yard jockey to find an empty. He pointed at a trailer waaaay down at the very end of the row where we drop the trailers. One of our LP/OO drivers had just unhooked from it before I talked to the yard jockey. He told the yard jockey he didn't want that trailer and wanted another one instead.

I figured it had a flat tire. I also figured that it's probably been here god knows how long, with every driver refusing it the way this other driver did. And I had literally seven whole standard Earth hours before I absolutely had to leave.

So I hooked up to the trailer and did my pre-trip inspection. Sure enough, right front outer tire was totally flat. Flat enough to be completely off the bead. Gave breakdown a call. They sent out a truck. He's changing the tire now. And this trailer will finally roll again after who knows how long.

 

That's just wrong, even if those other drivers opted not to pull the trailer they could have at least called it in to breakdown. Its too easy to just pawn problems off on another driver. It was Groveport where I got that trailer with 5 bald tires.

 

Nah, she's been good so far once the dude patched her tire.

Her trailer skirts make her look like Frankenstein, though. Both skirts have stitching all along the length holding together a piece which had obviously broken off.

 

I bet it's been to that Columbia distributor a few times.

 

Best place to have a breakdown.....

 

Not if it's our shop! At least his had to be fixed by KW, so he can be relatively certain it's actually fixed!

 

We have a flatbed trailer on our yard. Why do we have a flatbed trailer on our yard?

 

Could be part of Keystone museum equipment. There was a long nose something or other parked near the body shop in Keystone livery this morning. Maybe it was pulling the flatbed. I've seen another Keystone truck pulling a lowboy with an old truck on it at the yard a while ago.