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

Here's what really pissed me off about this whole deal today. They knew I was sitting empty for 5 hours in a truck stop waiting on a dispatch, I sent in numerous messages and emails trying to find something out. When I finally was notified by the other driver, and not dispatch about this swap, I didn't have enough time to drive the 360 miles to make the drop. The other driver drove right past me and continued on 45 miles from where I was then called me. The driver knew about this swap 4 hours before I did. The planner knew about it, for some reason I wasn't in the loop. Because everyone else was dicking around about this I wind up loosing out of a whole days worth of driving that now sets me back 30 hours. I'm waiting to hear something from someone in the office about this. They might not like my honest response.

 

I've been trying to figure out how I can make this drop at 7am in the morning, drive 650 miles to Paris Texas, and drop my final drop at 8am, if anyone has a solution to this please enlighten me.

 

With my luck it would work like the one that took off the other day from Cape Canaveral and didn't make it too far.

 

Got a good nights sleep, finally. Maybe that's all I needed in order to relieve me of my over the top bad mood about these last few days. I'm going to have a good day, not gonna get too upset about the goings on of operations and my truck, if it turns south during the day I'm just putting in for hometime a little earlier and go home. Have a great day all.

 

Well the saga of this load has light at the end of the tunnel, hopefully it's not a train. They got this drop rescheduled for 8pm tonight as a work in, wonder how long 10 pallets of product needs to be worked in. We will be there right at 6pm. We shall see. Stay tuned. Here's a little humor for the start of our day. We got up at 5am, took showers, then drove the 10 miles to our drop. We were done in 15 minutes, then drove back to the J for bathroom break and coffee to go. 8 coffee urns and not one drop of coffee to be had out of every one of them. Really? And no one lifting a finger to make any. Unreal.