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

I’m pretty sure I’ll be at the mothership tomorrow for the cookout. I haven’t made a “Driver Appreciation” jamboree since I’ve worked here. All the yearly chachkes ever given out I usually wind up getting
6-8 months later, if they hadn’t run out of said chachkes. I’m just happy for the sausage and peppers on the menu with the baked beans and slaw.

 

I gave up housing and feeding the homeless almost a year ago. When I had to buy the last trainee a weeks worth of food and snacks after my wife cooked all my food like she does everytime I leave out, I was done. We always hear to donate locally, we do, a lot, it doesn’t mean to support a person at a new job with all the comforts of home.

As much as I appreciate the few cookouts at the terminal I’ve attended, it always amazes me how some drivers act as though it’s the first time they’ve been at a social gathering in their entire life. I also get a kick out of the drivers that show up at these cookouts like it’s a local food bank with their Tupperware to fill up with leftovers, I mean really, how much leftover baked beans and cole slaw can one eat?

 

Well I was pleasantly surprised today. I got to the terminal after picking up a loaded trailer at Jarratt to a very nice BBQ. Had a very nice sausage pepper and onion hero, baked beans and homemade macaroni salad. It all was very good. Sat and talked with a few new drivers, a couple of our operations folks and finished it off with a chocolate chip cookie. I was really wanting the cole slaw that was advertised, but let me tell you, those baked beans and macaroni salad was off the charts. Very impressed, and to the people from inside that read what we have to say on our little world here, pass along my heartfelt thanks and appreciation.

I’m on the Boars Head vortex. Picked up a loaded trailer yesterday at 6am in Groveport, delivered that at 5am this morning in Wilmington NC. Got a deadhead move to Boars Heard in Jarratt to drop the empty, then on my way up to Jarratt my reload came across the QC, pick up a loaded trailer that was ready going back to Boars Head in Groveport. Then about 4:30 my reload came across for tomorrow morning, pick up a loaded trailer at Boars Head Groveport with the 2 stopper going to Tualatin and Sisters Oregon for Monday. This works out perfectly. I’ll be sitting in Jubitz Saturday about 5pm and start a reset and be finished Monday morning to go and make the 2 drops. At least I won’t be loosing 2+ days after getting empty on a reset. I’ll be ready to reload as soon as I get empty.