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

Don't know where Im going next. 3 Abilene trucks in front me getting unloaded so it may be a while before I find out.

 

They love me over there so they don't give me door 25 anymore. LOL
They were taking everyone in on golf carts from door 43 on the opposite side.
You may very well have one I picked up. I actually did 2 of them yesterday. One to be delivered at noon (which I waited 4 hours for!) and the other to be delivered at 6 pm (which took 30 minutes to load) The 2nd one I didn't even get until 7 pm and at 2 am a local driver came and picked it up from Dairy Queen because I didn't have enough time to get back to Richmond with it.

 

Well you didn't hang around Riverside very long did you, JB. I flashed you heading south on 215 in Perris. Heading to Sabra Im guessing.

 

Just so I dont develop a rep for complaining, the delivery went off without a hitch, real easy getting in and out of there too. Sure I was there 3 hours, but there were trucks ahead of me and that is by no means the longest I have spent at a HP site.

Got a deadhead move before I was even unloaded too which was icing on the cake.

 

Never saw you. I was in the jump seat. My trainee was doing the chauffeuring.

 

Finally loaded in Oceanside. 6 hours. Detention time. Headed back to Richmond for Friday.

 

I got one that was due at noon.

Mind, I didn't get the load assignment until 9:30 or so. And it's 8hr 40min from Richmond to Berea. So I didn't make my noon appointment time.

Of course, my load assignment itself said it was due at 7:00pm. Didn't make that one either thanks to construction traffic. Not that it mattered because the dude at the warehouse said it hadn't been rescheduled.

Load assignment said to take it to the Ceva Logistics warehouse, but there was also a Qualcomm message telling me to double check the BOL and make sure I was taking the load to where the BOL specified. The BOL specified the assembly plant itself, so I went there first -- at which point they told me to go to the Ceva warehouse.

On the bright side, the Ceva warehouse will let you sleep on their lot. So there's me and two other Abileenies camping here for the night.

 

So, you got the load assignment at 9:30-ish am on the 14th when it was due in Berea at noon on the 14th?

 

Correct!

 

You know, that does not surprise me at all. I'm hearing quite a bit lately from drivers about loads that should've been gone long before they were ever assigned them. It's like the company is taking way too many loads not knowing if there is coverage.