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

Just like the animals in Ferguson, the animals in Baltimore have absolutely no effect on my life. They can burn down every last building in their delightful neighborhoods, kill each other, and carry on in their blame everyone else for our problems ways. There will come a day when karma will strike back, I just hope I'm around to see it.

 

Got to Richmond at 10am this morning. Was assigned a load just as I was dropping my trailer on the yard. I had to have my door hinges fixed as per a service order from KW. Our body shop had to remove the 2 bolts holding the door stop hinge on the body, put pipe thread on them then tighten them back down, the whole fix took 10 minutes. Apparently they were working loose and if they vibrated enough the holes would widen then it became a 3 hour job.

I went into dispatch and got my marching orders. Hook a load on the yard going to Indianapolis for tomorrow morning. I only had 6 hours left to drive and made it to the Peelot in Nitro WVA. Before I left I had an issue with my fifth wheel. It had too much grease in the locking part and wouldn't release the jaws. Over to the shop I went, 3 cans of brake cleaner, a power wash, then an adjustment and I was good as new. I'll be rolling at 4am. Time for sleep.

 

Yes, and yes.

 

Got to my drop in Indianapolis at 9:45 yesterday morning and was empty at 10:30. We usually just drop our trailers at this customer but I had a reefer trailer and had to live unload because it was needed in Forrest City Arkansas at our customer there. I was given a deadhead move as I was leaving and had a 486 mile deadhead to drop and hook in Forrest City this morning. I stopped 160 miles north of West Memphis and went to bed. I was up and rolling at 2am after my 10 hour break. Got here at 5am and started a 10 hour break. My load is going to Groveport Ohio. I'l leave here at 3pm and be up there about 2am. Just did my miles for the ending pay period, a little light this go around.....6095 paid.

 

Tell me about it. It's been real crazy lately. I know it's nuts when I have lunch at 7am and supper at 1pm.

 

Sabra is up and running again. That should straighten a lot of this out.