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

Decent food at Lisa's at least, and quiet.

 

Taking a reset at the yard,than off to Atlanta for Monday morning.

Hope everyone has been safe.

 

I'm trying to imagine a truck driver in 2022 still relying on an alarm clock that requires manual adjustment for a time change.

My phone (which is also my alarm clock), my laptop, my GPS, and Edna all made the switch automatically without me having to do a thing. Only clock I had to change manually was the dashboard clock.

I do recall one time waking up and being confused that my 10-hour reset still had an hour to go despite the fact that I'd stopped at 8:00pm and my alarm was set for 6:00am. But that was during my first year of driving and it hasn't happened since.

 

@JohnBoy,the mothership was running out of toilet paper yesterday,might need you to make a call.

 

Here at a landfill in Phoenix, picking up a load to drop on the Colton yard. Would've preferred something heading back east, but this'll do.

Biggest headache with being in California is that I don't bother adjusting my clock, since I'm never out here long enough to make the adjustment worthwhile. So I'm wide awake and ready to roll at 3:00am local time, when nobody is open and nothing is being loaded or unloaded. Maybe I'll get lucky and there will be a dropped trailer on the Colton yard that needs to be hauled across the country and I won't have to wait until noon Richmond time to get a load.

 

I'd make the call myself, except that I have no clue who I'd actually need to tell. Telling AKJ seems like overkill.

 

ME!!! I'm home every night, but my alarm clock next to the bed is from the 80's.....

 

I still have one beside my bed that you have to wind up each day, not that I need it. I cannot remember the last time an alarm clock had to wake me up, if I got a job to do, I get my "rear" out of bed without an alarm telling me to get up.