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

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  1. JohnBoy

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    Due to my due diligence, and doing someone else’s job, it was taken care of. No reefers are loaded there, just dry vans.
     
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  3. JohnBoy

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    At the mothership. Only have 14 hours left on my 70. Don’t start recapping until midnight Monday night. Will have real strong recaps coming back. I’ll probably grab a short load that I can leave tomorrow and deliver Monday. I’ll take today off instead of Monday.
     
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    ***update***

    Turned down 5 loads. A Brooklyn, 2 Queens, a Bronx and a Manhattan. Here till Monday. And before anyone starts ragging on me, there’s no need for me to go up there and put up with that sheet. If I was threatened with termination, I’d be home before Monday morning with a smile on my face from ear to ear.
     
  5. drvrtech77

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    Don’t blame you.. been there done that.. It certainly isn’t worth the peanuts they would throw for the amount of headaches it would cause.
     
  6. jarhead0311

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    Dropped my Bartlett load yesterday and got assigned a Volvo to Miami due Monday all day til 1500. I tried to turn it down because Im low on hrs and will be out of hrs when I get to Miami and need a 34 after and Im not doing a 34 down there. Nobody understood there is next to no parking there and got assigned anyway. Growled at my new DM and hung up on her. Terminal Manager tried to call and I stayed silent. Couldn’t get it dropped on Pooler yard cuz they are short drivers in the south and got 20 loads they couldn’t cover this weekend. Told em Ill be PCing out of south Florida then to the big Pilot across state in Ga to do a 34 like it or not. Wouldn’t have gotten angry if I had lots of hours to get in and out of there. Oh, well. At this point if they wanna fire me I don’t care. Guess they are filling the WM office again so I got a new DM that lives down there instead of the current one that lives in Richmond which sucks cuz the Richmond one is really good. Had to sign like a 100 pages of BOLs at Volvo for this load I swear.
     
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    Is that a new lane? Did it go to a Volvo DC? Go to Ft Pierce. 2 Loves, a Pilot and a Flying J. Also, there’s a Haji joint as well. In typical Haji fashion, it’s a dump.
     
  8. jarhead0311

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    Going to a Geodis Freight Forwarder. Must be a new lane cuz Ive never seen it before. Ive never had much luck in Fort Pierce, I always got there in the early afternoon too and was full all the time. Ill prob try there to just say I tried. Appt is 0900-1500 and Im shooting for when they open in the morning in case tgey take forever to unload.
     
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    Try the new Loves in Mims, exit 223.
     
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    Alright, thanks, didn’t know about that one. Florida is one of those places Ive almost always had terrible luck parking wise except some of the bigger rest areas.
     
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    If it’s early enough in the day when you’re done in Miami. Try Fort Pierce Loves at exit 132. The Flying J is across from the Loves, though I never stop there. It’s only 59 miles south to the house for me.
     
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