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

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As the Dead sang in their song "Truckin " what a long strange road it's been, especially since Sunday night. I figured if I was able to leave before midnight on Sunday night then I could run all night to Forrest City Arkansas, take my break there then leave and do the 2 drops as scheduled, one at 7pm in Little Rock and then head up to Springdale, but instead I got finished at 4 am Monday so I finished my sleeper at 7am then the fun started.

I fought Atlanta traffic and made it to Forrest city at 3pm in time for my drop and hook. I made it to Little Rock and got 14 pallets of freight off in an hour but ran out of time there. I took my 10 right there, got up at 5 am then drove the 210 miles to Springdale. On my way up my reload came across my Qualcomm, I had to deadhead back to Forrest City and do another drop and hook for a 2 stopper, Brooklyn NY at 2am Thursday morning and the final at 6 am in Edison NJ. Gotta get ready to leave.....
To be continued..........

 

I see I'm not the only one working the night shift.

 

Ok, let's continue......

I knew right away that I wouldn't be able to do this load as it was scheduled. I did my drop and got to Forrest City at 3pm and sent a message into dispatch that the closest to 2am I could get to Brooklyn on Thursday would be noon. After getting my trailer I had one hour left on my day. With everything I had Wednesday, I drove 502 miles, made 2 drops, waited 2 hours for my new load, then as I figured, I ran out of time. The first response from dispatch was to take my 10 right there. I wrote back that that wasn't going to help the issue. What was going to help the issue was to repower the load when I ended my day Wednesday.

I was up and rolling at 5am Wednesday. I sent a message into dispatch and was finally told they were working on a repower. I was told to go to the TA in Roanoke and someone will switch with me. I figured whoever was going to do the switch had to be rolling out of Roanoke by 7pm to get to Brooklyn by 2am. I hadn't heard squat from dispatch about the switch, I got to Roanoke at 4pm, 656 miles for the day with only stopping once for a half hour. I called in and was told another driver was on his way. He got there, without a trailer for me and took my load and left at exactly 6pm. That gave him enough time to do the load as scheduled, me? I was exhausted and at that moment didn't give a rats backside about not having a trailer, I figured I would deal with it in the morning. I went right to bed. About 9pm my Qualcomm came to life. I got up and read the messages. I had to bobtail the 75 miles down to Gatorade in wytheville and pick up a loaded trailer at 4am with a load going to Mesquite Tx. My sleeper time was up at 2am, I was rolling at 2:15 in the pouring rain the whole way, got there at 3:45am was hooked and out the gate at 4:30. I now had the pleasure of starting my day for 2 days at 2am.

I went to the Wilco down from the shipper to scale out and of course I was over gross. Back to the shipper I go. They take off 1 pallet and I'm done in 15 minutes. I go back and reweigh and it's all good after adjusting my axles. I make it to west Memphis at 3pm yesterday, shower eat and go to bed. I was up and rolling this morning at 1am, got to my delivery an hour early and was empty by 9am. I got my reload info, reloading in Dallas going right back to wythevill. I told dispatch my hours are shot and I only have 4 left for today and will be working off my recap. This is scheduled to deliver on Tuesday, I plan on being there Sunday night to drop it at our yard. In the meantime, I had to drop the reefer trailer I had in Irving and get a dry van for my next load. The only one here has a hole in it so now I'm waiting for someone to come out and fix it.

 

71 on the pedal and 68 on the cruise. If we keep our foot in it too long then the computer cuts us down to 68 for an hour.