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

Discussion in 'Discuss Your Favorite Trucking Company Here' started by JohnBoy, Apr 10, 2013.

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  1. Aug 20, 2019 #25321
    JohnBoy

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    Fired? Lol. Not hardly. It’s on the manufacturer. Keep in truckin’.
     
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  3. Aug 20, 2019 #25322
    keen98

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    Going to ask you guys as you travel out west more than me( twice in 4yrs!) Whats 287 like from Limon down to Texas? Headed to Houston out of Windsor CO and I've never been out in this area except Boulder.
     
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  4. Aug 20, 2019 #25323
    JohnBoy

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    Real good running road. Been running it forever. Limon to Amarillo is mostly 2 lane, towns to go thru. Amarillo to Fort Worth is all 4 lane. There’s truckstops and rest areas all along the route. Never an issue to find parking.
     
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  5. Aug 20, 2019 #25324
    keen98

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    Awesome thanks! Wayyyyy out of my normal running area lol . Kinda nice though after 4yrs of running East of the Mississippi. Appreciate the info
     
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  7. Aug 21, 2019 #25325
    MidWest_MacDaddy

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    That’s what I said... so how would Abilene in Richmond contact the local 911 call center where the driver in question is at to have them do a safety check?
     
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  8. Aug 21, 2019 #25326
    JohnBoy

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    They track our trucks within 50 feet of anywhere where we are. To get another driver involved in the middle of their break to give wake up call is a little much. This is what’s wrong with trucking, DM’s are really babysitters. I know of drivers here that need a wake up call everyday. They need 12-14 hours of a 10 hour break everyday, couldn’t get to a p/u, delivery or swap without having their hand held, threaten to quit if they’re dispatched to a part of the country in order to do the job they are hired to do, demand everything from the company and bring nothing to the table.

    Sorry, the first time you need another piece of asset along with a driver to go find you to wake you up, that would be the last time. Sometimes I wonder if Abilene isn’t a daycare center. This is what the industry had turned into. I use to call it the 60/40 club, 60% are a complete waste of space, the other 40% do the job, now? I’m thinking it’s 80/20. And it’s not just drivers, it’s folks in operations too. Sorry for the rant, if I hadn’t experienced this firsthand over the years, I wouldn’t say anything. But the two times I have, it was also to check on 2 trucks, and both times the drivers were screwing off.
     
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  9. Aug 21, 2019 #25327
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    Yeah I had to repower a bh load off of one guy that screwed around,the company was pissed,not to say he isn't here,but I haven't seen him since.
     
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  10. Aug 21, 2019 #25328
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    So very true. Seen incompetence more and more-especially with the locals. Just yesterday had a load that was picked up by a local 5 miles up the road to deliver to Sabra. Load was picked up on 8/8 and for some unknown reason, local driver decided to drop it on the yard instead. Then he (or she) closed the load out like normal. It was only found to be on the yard when Sabra called to find out where the load was-yesterday. I ended up taking it over there. But will that driver get in trouble? Nah. So there’s 2 issues. 1. That it wasn’t delivered by the driver. And 2. That it sat for 12 days on our yard unnoticed by any of our personnel.
     
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  11. Aug 21, 2019 #25329
    jarhead0311

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    Still sitting here at this Love's still in Italy Tx where I got fixed yesterday.....was told Jake is sending me another yesterday after fixed.....call Chris this morning and found out they crapped out on getting me another load yesterday and to stand by.....standby to standby I guess as it was in the Marines sometimes.....been ready to go since 3am.....
     
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  12. Aug 21, 2019 #25330
    jarhead0311

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    That is messed up.....
     
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