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

No. That went by the wayside when Haji bought the place and turned into a no star establishment.

 

There are times this place never ceases to amaze me. Got to my Walmart DC delivery in New Albany at 1800 Sunday. Actually, the little fuel stop 3/4 of a mile from delivery. Paid $12 to park and hung out to go do my live unload at 0200 yesterday. My dispatch said live unload, the app said live unload, my DM said live unload, so I get there at 0100 to be told that it’s a drop. Which is cool, but I had a preplan that I could have done Sunday. So I drop the trailer, grab an empty, then go back to the fuel stop and enjoy my reserved parking spot until 0800 yesterday morning. The people at the DC said we’ve been set up for the last 2 months for dropping. Of course, why should the driver be involved with this little tidbit of information? Typical.

Run back to the WM yard to drop the empty reefer, grab an empty dry van and head to Byhalia for a drop and hook going to Jacksonville. Get to Jacksonville at 0200 this morning. We drop after hours and just leave the paperwork. Get there, there’s one empty door out of 10, drop the trailer and then spent the next hour hooking to every trailer at the dock to find an empty. None. Every one had a green light, but none were empty. Now it’s 0300, raining, I’m tired and I just moved 9 trailers to find an empty. So, I go across the lot to a bunch of trailers we have there that are handled by a local driver. Find an empty, hook to it, pullout and park to the side. What happens? At 0700 she’s banging on my door telling me I can’t have that trailer. No problem baby. I’m a horrible person when woke up under those conditions. I yelled back at her that IDGAF and the last I saw, all these trailers have Abilene’s name on it, not yours, not mine or anyone else’s. I told her to call Richmond and tell them her problem, not me. I then got dressed and PC’d 10 miles to the new Loves on 295. Hoping no one calls me about this because it won’t be pleasant.