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

Go buy a lottery ticket!…… although… You already won the lottery getting out of Kroger in 15 minutes!

 

He's not out of there yet. It may take hours to get the paperwork.

 

Especially that location..wow

 

Only had to wait about an hour for paperwork to be ready. Money code for lumper fee came back pretty quick too on the qcomm. I better go get that lottery ticket, rare for a Kroger, lol!

 

How's freight coming out of Richmond anybody know?

 

Was sitting around Sunday night, babysitting my freight, when Edna beeped at me. Turns out, it was a pre-plan.

Weird thing was, it came in at 9:38pm. It's been a long, long time since I got a load assignment of any kind after office hours. Under normal circumstances, I can expect Edna to remain silent between the hours of 6:00pm and 8:00am Richmond time, because we have no overnight load planners.

Hasn't always been this way. Back in the pre-Knight days, I would occasionally get them at night. I remember getting one once at 11:30pm, from the President of the company himself (who was putting loads together for West Memphis at the time). But those days are, as I say, long gone.

Assignment was to pick up in Baton Rouge at 3:00pm, deliver to Twinsburg, OH two days later at 9:00am.

Got to the receiver, who had a tiny little lot and very narrow docks. As predicted, they weren't sticklers about appointment times and were happy to take me a day early. Took me 30 minutes to blind-side in between the two other trucks there and bump the dock. Had like two inches of clearance between trailers. Was convinced I was going to tear a trailer door off its hinges, and probably would have if the other trailers were also swing-doors. Fortunately, they were both roll-ups, so I was able to squeak it in there. Got my stuff unloaded and headed to Baton Rouge.

Shipper in Baton Rouge had a truck stop conveniently located right next door, and I was in the market for food and a potty break, so I pulled in. Just as I was getting her parked, Edna beeped at me again with a new load assignment. Made some phone calls to figure out what HQ actually wanted me to do, considering I was looking square at the shipper where my original pre-plan was sending me. But no, they'd changed the load on me for whatever reason, so I moseyed up the road another 15 miles to a different shipper.

That shipper loaded the trailer with those big rolls of paper, to be delivered in Port Wentworth, GA. The original delivery time was a VERY optimistic 12:30pm today. If I had been able to leave the shipper already loaded at the precise moment I got the load assignment, I woulda still been 2 hours late. And the shipper kept me there four hours. So I called the broker to find out when the actual due-date was. Found out that the receiver is FCFS and I could get it there on Wednesday any time between 8:00am and 4:00pm. So it'll be there tomorrow at 8:30am, and then we'll see what else they got for me. I anticipate a trip to Atlanta in my future.

 

They got a load from walmart out of SC,that goes to Mt,Crawford.

 

At the j in St.George,Sc,sitting next door to my delivery in the morning at the family dollar.

 

Close! Picked up in Oakwood, GA, delivers to WalMart tomorrow in Sutherland.

 

I seem to have reached the "Is this just hayfever or am I actually getting sick?" portion of the year. Will keep you posted as further developments warrant.