Watkins & Shepard Trucking reviews

Watkins Shepard is 2 weeks. And you are in a hotel every night. The same room at the same hotel. They have orientation in conover nc and Missoula, MT

Current driver here, very happy. The equipment is good and getting better. Pay is good. They just opened a new terminal in Fontana, CA to accommodate the expanding business. If they would just reinstate the 401(k) match (and add lower expense-ratio options) then everything would be perfect 

Well the pay jumps up after three and six months, according to this post. So just multiply the mileage pay by 3000 miles or so and you've got a good idea. Bonuses are usually (for me anyway) between $100-500 a month.

I'm happy at Watkins, not looking to go anywhere for now. I make really good money, run pretty much the same area every week, and have the hometime I want. I don't have to run a lot of miles to make good money here. I make my money on stops. I'm happy. If something changes I'll be sure and ask on here first for the best place to go. But if it does, I'm prob going to be looking at LTL home everynight jobs.

Plain and Simple, Your lives are about to change in a big way. Schneider is a low to mid paying company. Trucks governed at 60 mph. Anything above 60 with you foot on the pedal is over speed. Anything over 70mph Excessive over speed. No self installed power inverters . You can have one that plugs in the cigarette lighter plug as long as it is 400 watts or less. No 8/2 splits. You must take full 10hr breaks.No pets. All riders must be over 10 yrs old. insurance cost less than $10.00 per month. All drivers are auto enrolled in Per Diem package at a cost of .02 cpm . You must opt out if you don't want it. If you drive unsafe and someone calls in on you,it could be your last trip. Three critical events and it could be your last trip. Every year you have to go ride around at an terminal to re-certify that you drive safe. Any accidents and you are pulled in to a terminal and go through training. Top pay at 45 cpm north east region. every where else around .40cpm . Raises are hard to get. You must over 100% in certain categories. Here they are mpg,eta,fuel compliance,days worked. Anything less than 100% for the year all you get is between between 0-1.5 cpm .Miles are zip code to zip code . After 6 months you can order 2 free shirts for no cost. after a year you can order a free jacket. All trucks will have Qualcomm mcp 200 based units installed.I hope this merger goes well for all drivers. We are the ones who suffer at the cost of the big pockets books. Hope we all come out on the other side of the tunnel.

So this thread is less than a month old and it would seem there are already some changes being made. The pet rider for those who don't already have them and Schneider teams pulling sticks out of Conover. That was always one my favorite runs. Did quite a lot of them to Spokane and then pulled tire loads to SFS.

All I can say is a I really loved running and working with WS and I sure hope things don't change too much for the current drivers. Best wishes everyone!