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

Ok, I finally was able to sleep in this morning, well, until 8 this morning which for me is late. I got up, and cleaned the inside of my truck, now the inside matches the outside. I went in and took a shower, had breakfast, then went back to the truck and had a message waiting for me from dispatch. Kimberly told me to go see Aaron at the Wytheville yard for my next load. I drove over to the other side of 81 and went in to find out where I'm headed next. I told him my reset was up at 5am so he looked at the computer and gave me a load that is sitting on the yard that delivers at 1pm tomorrow in LaVergne Tn. Not bad, 360 miles and I'm 125 miles from Murray Ky for a Pella load when I empty out tomorrow.

This is the first reset I am doing where the new H.O.S. are really a joke. My reset is actually up at 10pm tonight, but because the new rules say 2 consecutive 1am-5am time frames, I have to sit here until 5am. Like I haven't had enough rest. I have hometime scheduled for next Monday and Tuesday. I plan on being home Sunday. My wife and I are having our house painted, new French doors put in and having new hurricane shutters installed throughout the house, I want to be there when the work starts, at least when they demo the back wall for the new doors. Anyway, that's my day today. I'll be up at 5am, get some coffee then drive back across 81 to get my trailer. I plan on being in LaVergne at noon local time tomorrow.

 

We can stay at the yard. I usually do, it's very quiet at night. The only reason I didn't was because I got my truck washed yesterday and the yard can get dusty at times. I slept at the J at the 80mm last night, woke up this morning then went to see dispatch, then went to Walmart, then spent the day at the J at the 77. I just went and picked up my trailer,and drove the mile to the Hess. I'm leaving at 6am. Don't read too much into my driving around today while I'm still on my reset, it really isn't what you might think........wink wink.

 

You're absolutely right. I slept at the J at the 80, spent the day yesterday at the J at the 77, went and visited the Walmart at the 70 then spent the night at the Wilco last night. I was going to send out postcards but no one had any showing the picturesque fuel islands of said truck stops.

 

I don't think someone's there, I'm not sure.

 

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