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

Yes!
I imagine Chris N has a lot to do before he can hire someone to help him. His going to have his hands full.

 

Well today I'm in Jacksonville, Florida making a delivery to a Publix. Will see what the future holds for me after delivery.

 

Savannah to West Jefferson maybe?

 

Sigman to Battery Dantzler.

 

Got back from hometime this morning, got a load assignment to pick up something in Siler City, NC and take it to Phoenix, AZ. Cool, haven't been that far west since July.

Make the 3.5 hour drive to Siler City, find the shipper, check in.

"There's a truck in Door 12. When they pull out, go ahead and back in."

They gave me the paperwork before they even started loading me. And they don't have dock lights.

"Y'all gonna come let me know when y'all are done?"
"Yeah, someone will come out and let you know."

I go out, get in my truck just in time to see the other truck pull out of Door 12. Groovy, this won't take long. I open the trailer doors and bump the dock.

Two hours go by. They were definitely loading me at some point in the past, but I hadn't felt 'em loading the trailer in a while. So I peek back at the dock. They've got the dock plate up.

Are they done? I dunno. Can't think of any other reason for 'em to have the dock plate up. But I figured I'd best double check before pulling out of the dock.

After some increasingly confused conversation with one of the lumpers and with the shipping clerk, we arrive at the heart of the matter: The guy who checked me in told me to go to the wrong door. All the paperwork they've got on their end has me in Door 13. Door 12 was supposed to be some other guy. So all the freight that's been loaded on my truck? It's the wrong freight.

"Where's my freight?" I ask.
"Oh it's here somewhere in the warehouse," comes the response.

Great.

So now they're unloading the wrong freight from my truck and loading it onto the guy who got here three hours before I did and has been waiting all this time. And they are theoretically going to load my trailer with the correct freight, though I did overhear part of a conversation in which they were talking about having someone come back tomorrow at 7:00am. Not clear on who they were talking about, but hopefully it wasn't me.

Detention macro has already been submitted.

 

Az,must be nice,like you haven't been that way since last summer.

 

Ouch, I know SIlverdriver quite well, he doesn't deserve the merest suggestion of that fresh hell.

 

Would that be the Loves truck stops you are not allowed to fuel at?.

 

Is that rumor still around? Geez! We can fuel at Loves. I never stopped. Haven’t heard a peep about it.

 

They keep me on this 35 so much I dont have a choice lol.