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

I've been to Texas twice and Minnesota twice, that's as far west as I've been with Abilene. I was offered a Portland Or last week but the delivery on it was 7 days so I turned it down. I hired on to run all 48, and with the way Abilene burns through my 70 I'm just happy running east of the Rockies. That's not to say if I was offered a west coast load I wouldn't take it, it's just the way I've been running since I've been here I'm doing just fine running the areas I've been to. I've averaged 3000 miles per week even when I go home.

 

I was told by Scott he rather we wouldn't, but that if we did to make sure it's done right. In fact I did it twice last week.

 

Thanks for taking the time out to write that. It sounds much better in your words then if I tried writing it. I bet if I tried writing it I would have probably put a few drivers into violation!

 

I got empty in Pompano Beach yesterday morning at 9am. I sent in my empty call and waited to hear back from dispatch. I called my wife to tell her to pick me up at the truck and that we would go out for breakfast. I got back to where I park my truck at 10am and had heard nothing back from Kimberly. I sent her a freeform message and she wrote me back that they were working on it. Ok, I wasn't scheduled for home time so I knew I would be loaded or at least dispatched yesterday. my darling wife was waiting for me as I pulled in then as she was walking towards my truck my Qualcomm went off with a load. I read the message from Will one of our load planners to call this broker for my info and to start heading over to South Bay. That shot my breakfast date with my wife right in the gashole. We ended up having a Dunkin Donuts coffee in the service plaza on the turnpike.

I called the broker to get my load info, I was loading at Dixie Crystals in South Bay going to Front Royal Va for Wednesday morning. I loaded there once before while I was with Calex, that time it took me 5 hours to load. I got there at 12:30 and was loaded at 2pm. I closed my doors, sealed the trailer and then it started to rain, and hasn't stopped yet as I'm sitting here in Front Royal. In fact, I'm surprised my wipers haven't fallen off the truck.

I have home time scheduled for this weekend. It's my wife's birthday so I want to be home to eat some cake with her, some family and friends. I hope to be home by Saturday, unload Monday then head right back out. One of our drivers asked me the other day how old my wife is, I thought that was an inappropriate question, so with the straightest face I could come up with and with all sincerity in my response I told him she's turning 19. He looked at me somewhat dumbfounded, and I told him that it really isn't as bad as it may look, it's only a 38 year difference between us, but we sure are happy.

On that note, say good night JohnBoy.

 

If you go ahead and do a split the computer will automatically do the needed calculations.

 

Believe me, there are times I'd like to drive down the road with my foot stuck in this thing.