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

Using the 2/8 option might be helpful in this situation as it pauses your 14 for downtimes longer than 2 hours. So instead of burning and bumping your 14 it allows you to reclaim those drivable hours.

but it does make for a rather long day.

 

Unfortunately he will learn nothing from it. It would have been nice to have him return to a missing truck. I might have stuck around just to watch that show… lol

 

All you gotta do in these situations is to call your DM and ask 'em "When is this load actually due at the receiver?" Because that's really all you need to know to determine the urgency of your load.

If they tell you it's due tomorrow, just say "Well I ain't gonna make it to the yard by tonight. How about I just deliver this to the receiver tomorrow myself?" I've done that several times.

If they tell you it's not due for a few days, just say "In that case, I'll drop it on the yard tomorrow."

If they have a problem with either of those situations, they can hash it out with you right then. But chances are they won't have a problem with 'em. They never have with me.

Chances are, the stuff you're hauling is heading to Sysco in Front Royal. And those have some very forgiving delivery windows in any case.

 

That might have required a quarter, on the red air line, and between the glad hands.....

 

If I'd known he wasn't with the truck, I might've tried it just to keep him there long enough to get towed.

 

It is actually going to BH in Brooklyn but looks like no appt was scheduled yet or it is scheduled out a few days cuz nobody said anything when I told em Id be on the yard 1900 tonight. Lucked out and had just enough time left on my 14 to get to the yard.

 

Gotta love the guys that drive at night with no lights on their trailer....VADOT got him though when he went across the scale on 85 north and pulled him round back.

 

Got back in the truck on Monday with the Preload That Wasn't. Wound up delivering to a Family Dollar warehouse in Rome, NY instead. Was supposed to drop the trailer that evening, but snow and treacherous weather precluded it. Delivered early the following morning.

After that, I had a preload to pick up big bags of salt at a US Salt plant in Watkins Glen, NY. This place was basically on a man-made plot of land sticking out into Seneca Lake in upstate New York. Had a great view of the lake and the hills beyond while I was getting loaded.

Salt was to be delivered to Schmidt Bakery in Baltimore at 6:00am. For which, see the jackhole who blocked me in and made me two hours late.

That was followed up with yet another preload, to pick up a load of tobacco in Lancaster, PA and take it to South Windsor, CT. Delivery window was from 6:00am to 4:00pm, but thanks to the jackhole this morning, I was unable to make it there by 4:00pm. But they've never been a stickler for appointment times in South Windsor, so it'll get there in the morning.

After that, I have yet another preload, this time to pick up those plastic bulk fluid containers in Jessup, PA, to be delivered to Chemtreat in Ashland, VA.

We'll see if they give me another preload before I drop the trailer in Ashland.

 

I was at a loves one time in Iowa and some dipstick did this. When he finally showed up he didn’t have an operational light on his truck or trailer. I seen nothing……nothing.