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

For our cruise? Absolutely. For our training it's a 6 month deployment.

 

Boy you got that right Jason. A buddy of mine I use to work with at Calex keeps telling me that with the extra money I'm making I should go talk to someone in a horizontal position.

 

Semper Fi brother

 

Thank you for the warning... hope it doesnt wear yoda out to much since he new to this training thing.

 

Training students is definately not easy. Especially if the company has you running as a team, I did it for a short while. I decided to get off the road after that. In the oil and gas industry driving a water bottle now, home everyday, paid by the hour whether Im moving or stuck sitting at a well site. Still work 60-70 hrs a week. Ungoverned trucks too. Still collect my VA compensation as well.

 

We train a lot of drivers that use to drive and have been off the road a while, we call it knocking the rust off, after a week then we run as a team and the trainer concentrates on policies and procedures. Tim, who is the trainers driver manager is very much in the loop waits for us to say yes, run us a team. He in turn gets with the load planners and lets them know we are now a team. With a new driver, right out if school it's much more difficult, there many times, like with this particular load I'm on that the load planner forgets, overlooks or just doesn't have a true team available that we are dispatched as a team. At that point it's up to the trainer to get everyone on the same page about the load and the delivery time. Tim is real good at being our go between. I wish I could copy and paste my emails to him about this load I am on since the minute it was given to me while I was sitting in Henderson Nevada getting unloaded last Friday, but it's private company correspondence and I an not allowed to share it. Let's just say when I wrote in on Sunday night that the delivery wasn't going to happen as scheduled, it wasn't a surprise.

 

John you sure there were not just a few expletives that would make us realize your halo is a lil tarnished

 

Come on Pete, I would never want to tarnish my halo......but when it come time for a true understanding, then I won't give a rats ### about my halo or whomever is on the receiving end.

 

Halo Polish is $4.99 / bottle at most truck stops

 

Except the PFJs....16.95 with your drivers discount.....