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

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  1. JohnBoy

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    I've picked up 2 in 2 years. My suggestion to you would be to just take enough clothes and essentials to last a week. They are very good about dispatching you back to the house your first trip to get the rest of your belongings. Just make sure you tell Don in orientation you need to swing by the house to pick up your things. Then when you go and meet outbound dispatch you tell them the same thing. We all have 1500 watt inverters. Those dashcams are both outward and inward facing. They only record when there's a critical event that triggers it. They do not record you or the inside unless you have a boo boo. They've had them as long as I've been here and all I do to make sure I have privacy is put my hat over it when I'm stopped...most of the time, sometimes, if they do record me they get an eye full of me and my birthday suit with a big smile on.
     
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    Got a grand total of 5 inches all weekend. The news kept playing it out that this was going to be a terrible storm for the 81 corridor. At least they are always good for a laugh.

    And Cranky, the DOT will be inspecting tires for ALL Patriots fans after learning that Deflation is always a problem
     
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    Final day off. Mommy6 is at work. Kids are playing at friends houses or taking naps. Laundry is done. Still gotta go to the the grocery store, but I can do that later. Tim has told me I can only go west if I bring back more fresh fruit. Seems my Grandparents in Phoenix are now an Abilene favorite! Maybe I could get one of those famous Johnboy specials-3k plus miles and 5 stops! Although I do like the straight drive n drop idea.....Tomorrow morning 9 am will be the tell all. Trainee or no.
     
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    Thank you John. Are you guys on elogs? If so, what system of elogs? Do you guys use transflo to send in paperwork? Are they good about reimbursing for CAT scales? Do they have Prepaas and EZ Pass?
     
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    Well got to.the yard from Leesburg Florida around 1 pm to have a preplan.which pick up at lumber sit all day liquidstars going to Auburn Maine for Thursday....... really nobody listens to the news??? So after talking to safety I was taking off that load and given a two stop advanced auto parts load.... one drop IN Thomson GA Wednesday at noon the other is a drop n hook in Lakeland following morning!!!!! I could run Florida five days a week!!! I did push off my Hometime from this Friday to next Friday to let the northeast get clean up.......I was also ask today if I would like to become a trainer!!!. More to come on that later..... johnboy enjoy your next couple weeks with your refresher....done have to much fun now.......hehehehe....just remember they all cant be as good as me!!!!....... lol.... hey uturn1. How did university park ill. Treat you??????
     
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    Don't know yet. Stopped at the AA for the night. 10 degrees right now and getting ready to roll. I'll be there somewhere after noon. Wonder how much it's gonna cost me since no swap info or change of appt time came through.
     
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    Qualcomm Elogs. Transflow yes. Never had an issue with ANY reimbursement. We have prepass and ezpass.
     
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    Dude, I'm on the moon straightening out the flag.
     
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    Make sure and rake out your foot prints just like in a Sand Trap on a Golf Course
     
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