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

Dang, always the new trailers and never the nasty old 6 series, lol!

 

Got the Huntsville BH run today for tomorrow. Thankfully this week I actually got it and wasn’t given to another carrier again, lol! Parked in the dock for the night and bouncing to WM after empty in the morning.

 

It's a sharp crease for sure, but what I find interesting is the lower rail under the conspicuity tape looks untouched. I don't see how another trailer could do that, or a pole either honestly.

 

At the homebase for a pm.Been a good last few weeks of ‍running,hopefully it holds up.

 

Searching for an empty box yesterday at our Charlotte op center, there were three trailers, all nearly new, with gaping holes in the upper corners. Gets worse each year.

Oh, and one driver got stopped at the exit gate because his had a three-foot gouge across the top. Claimed he did a pre-trip.

 

The driver? Would explain things.

My first or second month on the road, I was on the Garden State Parkway and took a right-turn too tight on a busy New Jersey street. Wound up with the lamppost right on the side of my trailer, and absolutely would've done that to the trailer (or knocked over the lamppost) if I had continued the turn. But I was paying close attention to the side view mirrors and saw it happen. Stopped, straightened up, waited for my fellow citizens to notice my plight and accommodate me (which they did) and drove straight forward onto a sidewalk to clear the pole.

Valuable lesson, that.

 

probably just did the pre trip on the E logs … pretty much the standard anymore. I see so many people not ever get out and do any kind of inspection on their equipment. Pathetic.