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

Been there, done that in Chicago.

 

I hate when they send a whole platoon size of trucks on hill phoenix runs. 11 trucks and one dock….McDonalds manager wasn’t happy we were blocking the store drive, lol! Since I started my clock 0100 this morning my day is shot from sitting all morning waiting to unload. They really need to stagger trucks so many a day on runs like this.

 

Sorry to hear about all the health issues John , prayers for you and yours that the light at the end of the tunnel is Sunshine and better health .

 

In the pic above ?
Looks like a guy tried to back a trailer out of the shop with the door down lmao ...

 

That use to be a truck wash bay. Dude pulled out and turned. Which is cool, except he forgot about the 53’ trailer in tow. The rest is the aftermath.

 

Lmao ... Mayhem GPS ... turn left now
His insurance commercials are best commercials ever made

 

Man, they must be short of NE Regional drivers. My load choices this morning were a delivery to Queens or a delivery to central Connecticut. I picked the Connecticut load.

 

Delivered this morning in Connecticut, then parked at the TA in Waterbury. Been here ever since. Fortunately I was able to snag one of the few non-reserved spots. I remember the first time I came here, it was $20 to park regardless of whether or not you'd reserved a space. But apparently they changed that policy at some point in the past. However, this is definitely one of those places where 80% of the spots are RESERVED. And also one of those places where all the non-reserved spots are full by noon. So unless you get really lucky, it's going to cost you to park here regardless.

Mind you, I have enough points on my TA card that it doesn't cost me anything out of pocket to park in a reserved spot. But I still like to park in the free spots if I can.

Long about 4:30pm, I finally got a load assignment. Live load in West Hazleton, PA, drop in Ashland, VA. We'll see if I can finagle a pre-load for the following day before the load planners go home.

 

Got bounced up to Pooler, Ga for a load going to Mt Crawford. 1000 miles between loaded and dead head miles, Ill take it. Pretty rare I ever get reloaded in Fl when I go down there.

 

Just noticed that they bumped the NE mileage bonus from 10 cpm to 12 cpm. Apparently happened sometime late September/early October.

Now if they'd just bump up base pay, detention pay, and layover pay, we might have something.