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

Yeah I hate coolant leaks. The fluid is obviously going somewhere. It's why I stopped driving the KWs we have. I'd keep topping off in increasing amounts, tell the shop about it, but the leak isn't in some obvious place that's easy to fix, and no company wants to send the truck to a dealer for an extended period of time and instead you end up topping off more and more till one hot day your truck won't let you drive and you maybe even get towed to a dealer. Happened to me.

 

Take I-16 to 516 west and as soon as you get on 516, take xit 6. At the bottom of the ramp, turn left, go to the stop sign and turn left. Last time I was there, our lot was the one on the corner. Same code for the lock on the gate as the main gate code. If your trl is t there, go to the other gate on telfair just a few yards up the road. Your truck will get dirty. It’s either muddy or dusty. Never in between. Watch the massive ditches on the way out.

 

Our lot is at the corner of Telfair and Gwinnett where you can see our trailers in this photo. The lot that's empty in the photo, is now full of containers. But that's container yard is also where we have one Abilene employee working out of an office, and where some of our loaded trailers are.

You can't see our trailers hidden by the containers. I thought a trailer I was supposed to pick up was gone because there's nothing that says Abilene by the containers, and I'd circled the outside of the container yard seeing only containers. That took a while to figure out. The section of containers where our trailers are, you can only get to from the street rather than the driveway that runs to our yard and to Cycle Up. The container lot can be tight. I had to wait for a crane operator to finish dropping chassis and then I had to help an intermodal guy drop because there wasn't room to get around him. A lot easier to look first in our yard in the corner there with the big Abilene banners, drop your empty there, and bobtail into the container yard if you have to look there.

If your trailer was loaded by Cycle Up, they still have the bills and need you to sign for them even if it's on our yard. They're 24/7. Westernmost door in the long warehouse.

 

If any of you folks go to adjust your tandems and happen to see green glitter chalk X's in-between holes... dat wuz me. My daughter donated a piece of her sidewalk chalk when my welders stick ran out. Absolutely insisted the color match the truck.

 

But of course!!!

 

Does she have any red glitter chalk? Asking for a friend... Lol

 

Oh oh oh… me too.
I have a friend too!!!

 

She might have the beginnings of a new Truck Detailing Business…