My Experiance with Watkins Shepard!

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i ALMOST forgot!

I met RonPaul in Conover a week or two ago.




American Trucker

 

Im sry i should have been more clear, RonPaul2012 the TTR memeber he is a New Watkins Shepard Driver.



American Trucker

 

when 5 flatbedders quit.........i'm 6th in line



American Trucker

 

Ok so i today i had inteded to do 5 stops leaving 1 for tomorrow.

Well as always i got the the 1st stop early, this is where it got fun. 1st stop i had 4 boxes. They are there at 8am but do not receive until they start getting paid to do so at 930am. So i get there at 8:45am and a Cargo Transporters Truck is in the "big truck dock, and some other no name company rocking a old POS SheetSpreader flat top was off to the side with his trailer doors open waiting in line for cargo to be done.

So i park on the side of the street and walk right up to the head warehouse guy that ive delivered too a few times. And Ask if i can just drop my 4 boxes as i have lots of stops to do. "he says i dont get paid until 930" so i said all ya gotta do is sign i'll take care of the rest" so he says fine i dont care. So i backed into a straight truck dock (no dock plate) and pulled the 4 boxes off and left all in under 13 minutes and 30 minutes before they start "receiveing" meanwhile cargo and the other guy are standing there like WTF!

So then i do another quick stop at a moving company.

Then onto another stop i back in and their crew starts unloading my 41 peices (these guys work quick so i always stay out of their way they can unload a WHOLE truck in less then 45 minutes) so anyway im sitting in my truck getting ready for stop #4 and here comes Cargo Transporters....

He walks up to me and asked how old i was and was like "man your stealing all my apt times today" (my apt was 2pm I got there at 1030am) and we made sure we were not delivering to anymore of the same places for the rest of the day haha

Then i hit my 4th then 5th stop no problem and then it just so happend to be 2pm....12th stop is 45 min away........and they close at 3pm and its the 1 and only peice of furniture on the truck...........hmmmmm HAMMA DOWN!

I get there and its a store on the other side of the median...so i try to call... ya right i got some biz in WV. So i call conover and Voiced my opion about there "work" and asked for the Proper Phone # which i then called. The guy Says "are you sure your not suposed to be going to the ware house?" i read him the name and the address and that was of the store, so i told him it was 1 peice and he agreed to take it there since the warehouse was closed at that point. So after he signs the paper work he says "thanks, and dont ever come here again, always go to the warehouse"

I had to unload it in the street since there was no way to fit a truck in there, not even bobtail.


So Anyway I then came south to Ruthers Glen to the old Petro NOW Flying J! I got my truck washed, ate, then took my free shower. I'm going to head to NC Really Early (im deadheading) to conover to drop my trailer. Then im going to some tire shop in Hickory, NC to get as many drive tires as i can get ( i want/need 4)

Then im going to either drop the truck off or the key off at blue ridge (depending on whether or not they will give me a ride back to the terminal as im NOT doing the 2.5 hr walk again!

I need:

A LED Light on my Visor
Yet ANOTHER Windsheild
Oil Change
Lube Job
Alingment (only been 10 months that i've wanted one now its been 14 months since the truck had one i WILL get it this time.
I need a new Passenger side 1/4 fender as werner decided to take mine off the other day (I was doing 55mph in a 55mph zone, Werner comes by at 62mph and cuts me off less then 5 feet between us when he comes back over and blows a trailer tire which i then ran over ripping off the 1/4 fender thanks to werner)


Anyway after alllllllll that I'm headed HOME for 8 Days!



I'll take and post Before and after pics of the tires tomorrow




American Trucker

 

i got up at 130am and headed to conover at 215am.

Got there at 730am dropped my trailer, and bobtailed over to the tire place.

Old Tires:














After:











Notice the siped tread and the open shoulders? thats for traction on snow/ice WHY all SS tires arent like that i do not know. But these will be 1000% better in the snow then the crap that came off. The old tires had 330,000 miles on them.



Anyway then i dropped my tractor off at the terminal so blue ridge can do there thing. (i lost all my coolant AGAIN! hopefully they can fix this this time)


now im home its been a LONG 3 months.





Andrew
American Trucker