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

Lord I hope not. I can handle a mirror backing falling off, not sure about loosing the ability to steer at 70mph.

 

My first brand new truck I was assigned here was a ‘14 Freightliner. I was literally loosing parts going down the road. First trip from Richmond yard I didn’t make it 3/4 of a mile to the on-ramp of 95 and a lost the whole bracket and arm for the right side mudflap. It was all down hill from there. I had that truck for 27K miles. This one is doing much better. I now have 44K on it and it’s SLOWLY falling apart.

 

Definitely would not be a good outcome. Something tells me that Quality Control is not being performed at that plant. That’s a major issue. That’s definitely something to check on the next pretrip.

 

People don’t take pride in their work anymore. If they did, quality would be top notch. And they build these things so fast that they’re bound to have human error.

 

Going to do that right now. Just showered snd ate. Time to check this prototype Cascadia out.

 

Not just truck building. We see it in everything we do during the course of our day.

 

Mine is gone too.

 

My son and I were talking along the same line the other day. It goes back to the old saying, "siht rolls down hil". When the managrement at the top has no pride in the way they do their job, this has filtered right down to the "floor sweeper". Even when top wages are paid, we do not see "pride" today. Want proof? Just look how people dress today, no "pride" at all. Take a person on a production line tightening a bolt, the whistle blows for shift change, the person quits when the bolt is "half assed tight"..

Two words can describe this nation today and probably the world. ' WHO CARES"!

 

Exactly right. I see it here on a daily basis.
Late loads, lost trailers, poor communication. I always wonder what would happen if a driver rolled over on the morning of delivery and said piss on it, another hour of sleep is more important right now.

 

I'm pretty sure that if you took pride in your work at these factories, or at more and more workplaces these days like Amazon warehouses, you'd be fired for catching too many mistakes that delay the company mission of shoving as much crap out as fast as possible.