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

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  1. FLATBED

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    Fairbanks is a nice trip , but considering they had SNOW up in ALBERTA Canada today good luck
     
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    Too funny
     
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    if i was only trying to be funny........sigh
     
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    Fairbanks ... That would be an interesting trip.
     
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    Well, finish the last five days with 2,400 miles and like three 10-11 hour days under my belt... Not bad for my second week... I think.

    Also got to be on my first High Value load too... That was an interesting pick up... Had to drive INSIDE a MOUNTAIN..... How cool is that??? I know it doesn't compare to Fairbanks, Alaska but I got a rush out of it.
     
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    I just inquired about testing out of Stage 1 but was told stages 1 & 2 were 4 weeks and stages 3 & 4 were two weeks...

    But then again, I was told a truck with a stage one student could only run 14 hours a day and then we never had a 14 hour day since... LOL ... Along with other things that turned out to be not so accurate either... lol

    Ah the joys of corporate communications. :)
     
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    Cranky Yankee Cranky old ######

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    there are bean counters somewhere thinking your doing it the way they envisioned
    as long as your trained correctly it will all be ok
     
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    Oh... Uh... Ok... Not too funny.

    ;-)
    :)
     
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    What??? People lie and mislead the Corporate Bean Counters??? Noooo... Tell me it ain't so... {world is shattered}

    FYI... Was one of those Corporate Bean Counters is my first career... and yes, we know and can tell when they blow smoke up our skirts... Yea, it was a rather strange corporate dress code... LOL
     
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    Well, been here three weeks and counting the initial road test I have backed up only three times... LOL

    Ok folks... I can drive forward in a fairly straight line and can put back to back to back 11 hours of driving together... Can I please be trained in backing more???

    Or did the Corporate Bean Counters put backing into Stage 4? ;-)