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

Yeah, heat will definitely affect retreads. I hate those and super singles. One always gets what they pay for, better off using virgin tires.

 

After dropping that York they gave me the Wegman’s load which dropped Monday morning. I had to look three times cuz I was shocked I was preplanned at 745 that morning to grab an empty ten years old or newer then head to West Point for a paper load to Bumfukt, WI, lol! Was supposed to deliver Tuesday but Chicagoland killed my 70 and drive time, only had 11 hrs to work with til today. Ended up doing a 34 at the TA in Deforest, WI. FCFS at West Rock in Adams, WI then bounced me to Quaker in Cedar Rapids, IA for a live load to Kroger in Memphis tomorrow at 1800. Hoping it was like last time at that Kroger and only there two hrs but I won’t hold my breath, lol!

 

Was given an assignment to pick up a half a trailer of mattresses in Columbus, to be delivered to a hotel being remodeled in Petersburg. Lots of time on the load, so I was planning on swinging by the yard to see if I could drop it and get something else.

Did not get that far, though. Shortly after I left the shipper, I got a call from my DM telling me they'd put me on an emergency rescue. Drop my loaded trailer at the Swift yard, and then bobtail over to the Petsmart warehouse in Groveport, where I was to pick up a pre-load that delivers tomorrow at 7:00am in Oak Ridge, TN.

These Petsmart loads are always (in my experience, at any rate) 3-stop deliveries. Have yet to haul one that didn't have stuff on it for three different stores. Hooked the trailer and was looking at the paperwork to figure how how much the freight weighed so I'd know where to put the tandems. There was no master BOL listing the combined weight, but when I added up the weight listed on the three individual BOLs, it came out to around 48k.

Told 'em at the guard shack when I checked out that they would likely be seeing me again Real Soon. Made my way down to the Loves a mile or so away, and sure enough: 80,660 gross, and 34,600 each on the axles.

So I hauled the trailer back to the shipper, scale ticket in hand. Was informed that the two dudes at the guard shack were literally the only people there at the facility. No chance of the trailer getting reworked until tomorrow, and no ETA for when tomorrow it might be. I said "That's fine. I'll just drop this trailer back where I got it and y'all can sort it out in the morning. Company will probably put me on another load."

The security guy made it VERY clear that he REALLY did not want to do this. He didn't actually refuse me, but he made it known that it would be kind of a pain in the keister for them if I dropped it back on their yard. And then he just stood there in silence, giving me plenty of time to change my mind.

I pointed at the numbers on the scale ticket and said "All three of these are illegal." Which, of course, we all know that I'm unlikely to get bagged for it just driving around the local industrial area. But parking is at a premium around here, and it's a lot easier to find a place to park bobtail. And it's not like they're not going to have to rework the trailer anyways. So I stood my ground, and he relented with poor grace.

And now I am bobtail and parked at the convenience store across the street from the casino. We'll see if they keep me on this load or give me something else in the morning.

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if we ended up losing them Petsmart loads.

 

Quaker is slow as all get out loading….

 

Picking up a multi stop trailer off yard,going to MD.No paperwork or seal with the trailer and nobody in office.

How do you run a multi million dollar trucking company, and have nobody here to answer phones. I'd takeoff,and the could fax it,problem is this company breaks seal when you get there.