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

Looke like its at the airport,might not be so bad,knowing abilene,im surprised your not on the runway lol.

 

I got a note with a high value load assignment yesterday that warned me not to stop at the truck stop in Ruther Glen with the high value load. Near as I can tell, though, there are four truck stops that could reasonably be considered "the truck stop in Ruther Glen", namely all those truck stops off of Exit 104: The two PFJs, the Loves, and the Mr. Fuel.

So which one of those am I not supposed to stop at?

I'm wondering if maybe they don't mean that sketchy, always empty truck stop off of Exit 98 in Doswell. I don't understand how that place is still running, because I have never seen another truck or trucker there no matter what time of day or night I have stopped. And yet it stays open 24/7. So I assume it's a money-laundering operation for some criminal outfit.

 

As it was explained to me, none of them if you have one of those loads. Gotta swing by the yard for juice if you can't do 200 mikes.

 

Yeah, the 200 mile radius prohibition pretty much covers all those. Definitely don't want to stop for anything you may need to leave the truck for. Certainly not for a shower as was rumored to be the case with that load.

 

What rumor? What load?

 

I thought you were here when it happened. Someone stopped in Ruther Glen with a high value load, supposedly for a shower, and when they came back out the trailer was gone. The thieves broke into the tractor, and unhooked it from the trailer. They obviously had their own tractor. Ours can be satellite tracked and they knew that.

From what I heard the trailer was recovered a couple days later with the load intact. I guess they dropped it somewhere to let it cool off before unloading it and it was found in that time.

 

You know the rumor mill. The stories i heard varied slightly.

I'm not surprised it was an inside job. I doubt they do much background checks on those minimum wage "security" guards or even warehouse employees. Easy enough for one of them to call up their buddies with the trailer number, destination and what exactly is loaded on it.

Some of that "high value" load is cheap plastic stuff that wouldn't fetch more than $10 or 20 per item on the black market. No doubt one of those loads wouldnt be as appealing.