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

Hope feel better soon.

 

Hate operating out of my preferred schedule of 0300-1500. Got my Groveport dropped at 2300, dropped trailer and took off totally forgetting to turn in the paperwork to get signed and had to turn around and go back. Had to come all the way to Circleville Loves to find a spot. Had my choice of 4 different loads all 500 miles or less and deliver Monday. Picked the Columbia,Sc BH cuz it is one of the easy ones to back into. I was almost due for a 34 anyway so it kind of works out.

 

I’ve had 4 complete, destructive blowouts in the last 3 1/2 weeks. 2 of them in the same week (1 on a Tuesday and again on Thursday). All on different trailers. All recaps. Who uses recaps when you consistently haul 44k+? First one took almost 8 hours to get repaired. Thankfully, I was close to stopping anyway and since I couldn’t go until it was fixed-ripped the mud flap off and pushed the bracket up and forward-it was a wash. The next 3 took 6 hours (at a Loves), 5 hours (at a Loves) and 3 1/2 hours (some company out of Florence-they were the bomb) respectively. The down time I’ve had this past month, along with the reduced freight rates (I am paid %), has had me seriously rethinking my decision to stay trucking! I think we’ve all fallen and bumped our heads! LOL

 

Only flat on the bottom driver......

 

I had one of those in Oregon just north of the Idaho border....did a 10 hour break waiting on Loves.....

 

What happened to east of 35?????