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

have a good trip home , I got back from the LAND OF ICE & SNOW yesterday to a ice storm here at home as well yet 72'F in NYC

 

I am truly blessed to be with Johnboy and my new family at Abilene Motor Express and sitting here on my porch in Plymouth NC where it is still balmy reflecting on this past year. I had been a dispatcher at Waste Management of Hampton Roads until February 15 this year. They centralized dispatch to Columbia MD and told me I could apply for the position if I was interested. Nope, took the severance and ran. Hire somebody else who doesn't know the area to dispatch my area. Go ahead. Moved to NC with my wife to live with her parents who are elderly to aid them. Saved my severance checks to go to Sage Trucking School in Rocky Mount (75 miles away) in July, finished in late August, went to work for Howard Transportation out of Laurel Mississippi on a flatbed (what the hell was I thinking) and washed out with them in my eighth week of training, the last week of October. Filed for unemployment, but by the time I qualified, I had caught on with Abilene. After a 19 day trip, which was mostly glorious, I too have finally found my new home with this company. The people, the trucks, the freight, the superb maintenance team, the miles, it's here. ALL HERE. There is a wonderful sense of community here and I felt that early on when Sally Arndt called me just six hours later after I emailed my application at 2 in the morning. I had put in ten or so applications elsewhere and heard back from only Estes. I am grateful to be a part of this company, I am lucky and blessed too. Who's got it better than us? Nobody!! Merry Christmas to all of my new Abilene family!!

 

Glad you found your new home.

 

Wow!!! A 945 mile bobtail move? And to think, I was astonished when Louie had me bobtail from Pittston to Petersburg, VA.

 

Seems to me that the sign of a good company they're getting you home for Xmas no matter how much it costs them. Not many companies around like that anymore all to busy trying to make money and not caring about their big asset the workers.