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

Started driving at 4:30am, finished up at 5:30pm. Made it to the receiver with 3 minutes to spare on my 11. Haven't burned a full 11 in a good long while.

Currently parked bobtail at the Ashland TA. Will mosey back to the yard sometime tomorrow and then head home.

 

Ended up dropping the Manassas load on the yard last night cuz there was no way I was getting there 0400 this morning being my ten wasn’t up til 0630 this morning. Got to the shipper and of course I wasn’t given the right pickup number. Close call last night, get on 95 from 85 and a couple exits up a minivan misses the exit and decides to stop right in the middle lane and a pickup truck narrowly misses slamming into the back of the van by swerving into the right lane and almost gets hit again by the van trying to drive all the way over to the exit, pickup had to go to the shoulder and barely got by and I meanwhile stood on my brakes being the van kept on crossing over to the exit. I laid on the air horn a good couple minutes…I often wonder what goes on in people’s heads, just go to the next available exit and turn around and come back instead of causing an accident. Figured Id at least end up with an unneeded 34 with freight the way it is. Got what I need this week along with a day layover though. If nothing tomorrow Ill put in another day of layover.