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

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. She is finally out of surgery and in recovery resting. She is stable for now. We won’t know truly how the bypasses affected her until she wakes. Still hopeful we have a future together. God is great!

 

Prayers to you both!

 

Pulled into Tampa pepsi at 1330 for my 1400 appt,unloaded at 2155.You know it's bad when they give you a detention sheet at the gate.
Been real wishy washy lately,hometime for the weekend we'll see what's next.

 

Delivered my Bethpage load a day early. Actually found a spot at Vince Lombardi and spent the night there. Picked up a load of spices in Edison, NJ, delivered 'em to Petersburg this morning, then hooked a trailer full of cracker-and-peanutbutter sandwiches off the yard and schlepped it up to a Dollar Tree DC in Berwick, PA.

Currently parked at the Loves a mile or so away. Driving to Scranton in the morning to pick up an empty dry van, which will be traded in Canandaigua for a preload going to Pittsburgh. Then they'll have to get me back to Richmond because I got hometime this weekend.

 

Had to see the new safety director when I got to Richmond Thursday over my uptick in unsafe following distance videos. Rough month, letting stress get to me too much out here. Im starting to find it is less stressful to cruise between 62-65 mph. In spite of events earlier this week I still managed the minimum miles I prefer to get this week. Got a PM done and a 34 in and running a Sam’s Club to Lynchburg then drop empty at hill phoenix old stage rd then another Sam’s Club to Ga.

 

At home for the weekend,than I'll grab my loaded I dropped in Wilson,and deliver around the corner Monday.
Was a good week.

 

Welp, there go my plans for a promotion...

 

I appreciate the prayers, she woke up yesterday for the first time physically weak and tired which is expected after open heart surgery. New safety director is a dude, came from swift. Said he was a driver manager and safety guy there. Way he talked it sounded like he drove a bit but didn’t ask. He was real nice and was concerned about my uptick this month in unsafe following distance videos off my camera and didn’t want to see any accidents because of it. I admit I was frustrated and stressed out so much I was riding closer than I should have. Showed me a recent video of another driver that rear ended a car and caused a chain reaction crash with a 4 second following distance with no out. Didn’t talk down or anything. He did fire a few WM drivers though some deserved it but couple others my DM didn’t agree with. Just wanted to see improvements from me which I have been slowing down lately. Didn’t realize how sensitive the camera system is. Seems no non-sense too. He understands we can’t control others driving and cutting us off but doesn’t want to see blatant tailgating.

 

The Sam’s Club warehouse in Prince George is closed due to infrastructure issues so that is why we are moving stuff around to different places out of there. Knight driver sat there all day and gave the guard problems and was crying over pulling an AMX trailer that used to be an old Swift trailer.