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

Jealous.... Feels like 100 here today.

 

I made it into halls nice and easy. Got unloaded then sat around there for a couple hours waiting for a load. Tried calling a few times but got nowhere.

Eventually got a deadhead move 50 miles away in NJ. I head over there thinking it was one of our customers and I would get further load instructions on the way but nothing. Grit my teeth and start calling again finally get through to someone who gives me just a pickup number and the city its going to. No load numbers etc over the QC.

It wasn't until I was nearly an hour into my journey towards that city that a QC message comes through...while I am driving and cant read it.

I stop because I needed to scale anyway and that process takes over half an hour between waiting in line for scale and waiting for attendant once I am on the scale.

Head off again only to realize that the route to the consignee has no fuel stops once I leave NJ so I have to stop again. Just as well as I95 is stationary after the toll booth just north of carneys point.

By this point I am done. No point burning time creeping in traffic so I shut down at the flying j in carneys. I decide to take a closer look at the bol and the appt time is 1 hour earlier than listed on the QC so its yet another split sleeper if I am going to get there on time.

Only 264 miles today. I doubt the extra 10 cents is going to make a dent in that.

 

I met him in school but we did become close as I helped him get through it all. Especially the pre trip. As he said in his own words, "Chris, I can't even change the oil in my car". (Think he wrote about that in his thread)

I can say this. He passed but he was NEVER "comfortable" driving that truck. Tense and white knuckled just rolling around the yard. Then he went with Swift? Running the NW? I shutter to think.

 

Call the customer up Redtwin,i've had different appt times from the bol and qc.,and the qc was right.This load I'm on now has appt time on bills of 07/01 don't think I'll be making that one.

 

Oh come on now. With the way these folks equip the trucks you're saying y'all don't have one of them Flux Capacitor thingys? LOL

 

The company seems to think so sometimes lol.Unless they installed jet boosters last night I'm not making it captain.

 

I always got along well with our dispatchers and we'd kid around a lot. Occasionally I'd get the same thing and QC back ... Soooo ... next year then?

 

Well good night gents,get with you in the morning,lookout pass and 4th of July are calling my name tonight,and unless I want to take the scenic route down the side of the mountains better get a few winks.

 

Two of my favorite bumps. Especially in 2 feet of snow. (Got a story on my thread about that) Good night Fin.

 

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