Watkins shepard

soon2betrucking · Feb 11, 2010

rednek said: ↑

Hey s2b u wish ur truck was white huh baby boy lmao
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ummm....
big red sleeper is just fine for me....

uncbenben · Feb 12, 2010

Im going monday to do pee test and physical, woot woot!

Warpdrvr · Feb 12, 2010

Me too! I'm going to the Feb 24 10 day in Missoula...I just finished my CDL class today. Good luck ben. I'm sure we will cross paths someday!

S2B....get back to work!!

soon2betrucking · Feb 13, 2010

Warpdrvr said: ↑

S2B....get back to work!!
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dancnoone · Feb 13, 2010

soon2betrucking said: ↑

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Wha ?? You snowed in at home ? And can't get out ???

Owner's Operator · Feb 13, 2010

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WHAT AN INDUCTION INTO THE WORLD OF TRUCKING:::::::hey all my w/s connections SOOOOOOO heres a brief recap of my first week and a half out of the 10 day orientation at Missoula, So I got to my truck in Sante Fe Springs and had to wait for 4 days for it at the shop--- it needed to have some things done to it to make it safe to drive and not get redflagged---which I might add they fixed or changed everything on my long list---- BiG Kudos to Ramone at the SFS shop.
Soooo my first load I went from Sante Fe Bprings,CA to Birmingham, AL then unloaded then I was on my way to Dalton,GA to drop and hook a trailer to Richmond ,KY,.. all sounds good so far right ??/!! wrong ------ on the north I59 in Georgia I was sitting in stopped traffic due to a fatality ahead of me about 500 yards and a couple rearended my truck at 70mph !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in their minivan, ......it took emergency crews over 2 hours to get the guy out of the car, (his wife was extracated fairly quickly and transported via ambulance- I later found out she was going to be OK) as of then the husband was still alive but in bad shape, steering wheel and dash were in his stomach and lap ,,they had to shut down both sides of the 59 and land a life flite helicopter on the interstate, they had to jack up my trailer to get it off the front of the car so they could pull his vehicle out form underneath the trailer (when he hit the trailer it lifted the whole back of the trailer up and it came back down on the top of the car) , then they had to cut apart the minivan and roof to extracate him, the impact was so severe that it bent my seat back , slammed the back of my head against the cabinet, knocked everything in the truck around , all the stuff on the dash got thrown off and whiplashed my back..
I had turned on my flashers about a 1/4 mile back (so no one would rear end me) but unfortunatley it didnt work. A truck driver came around the front of me and stopped to give assistance, he said the brake lights never came on in the car that hit me , and the speed limit there is 70 mph ...... that was the longest 53 feet I have ever had to walk --- when I stepped out onto my step and looked back and saw that debris field and crumpled car under the trailer I thought for sure I was going to walk back and see dead, smashed bodies --- I almost didnt want to go back there , but I did and both were alive but BADLY injured. After nearly 4 hours of being out there on the interstate (which was shut down in both directions for nearly 4 hours) ----then the state troopers had to tow my rig and trailer to an impound yard in Chattanooga,TN because even though it wasnt my fault ---but, because it was a semi it had to go through a DOT inspection and review in morning... so then I had to stay at a hotel in Chattanooga,TN until the next day, and meet with insurance person, terminal manager, state trooper etc.. THANKFULLY I had all the problems to my truck fixed IN Sante Fe Springs and my truck PASSED the DOT inspection,,,,,whew ..I can only imagine what would have been the outcome if they found issues with my trcuk,,, so anyway my check engine light had came on in AR, and the shop told me to keep driving until I got to the next repair shop then the Dalton shop had to have me drive it to truck repair shop in Dalton ,( the problem was that one of the fuel injectors was bad and others were acting up ...so now I sit here in another hotel in Dalton until at least Monday.... ( 3 hotels coming back from 10 day, hotel in Chattanooga, and now hotel for days in Dalton) ---- I must add that W/S has been there every step of the way at all times when needed,, that was a great comfort knowing that I was'nt just a driver #- another reason I chose W/S - their reputation of being and treating drivers fairly and knowing who they are.
IN retrospect I am glad the minivan hit me... BECAUSE if they had'nt of hit me , they would have rearended the stopped car in front of me at full speed AND that would have no doubt burst one, two or three cars into flames ( a car traveling at 70 mph and hitting a stopped car is quite an impact) and surely people would have perished ,,, and possibly me because the impact would have been right next to me and its hard saying if the collision would have drove them into my left fuel tank and possibly blow me up or catch me on fire also????!!!!!
So I want to think that by getting rearended----lives of others were spared.. quite the sombering induction into the world of trucking, they say every trucker at one point in his life will undergo some kind of horrific accident in one way or another -----------mine all just happened in my first trip..

and BTW the crash I was stopped for was from another trucker that got rearended 500 yards ahead of me.......unfortunaltely the driver of that car was killed,,, and the trucker left the scene so now they are looking for him as a hit and run,,,,

AND always check your truck for safety issues before you leave because----- you NEVER know what is gonna happen!!!
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Why the hell did they want to DOT your truck? You where stopped for crying out loud. Even if they did find something wrong with the truck, would it have automatically been your fault? I hope the idiot that rearended you got at least got a ticket.

soon2betrucking · Feb 13, 2010

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Wha ?? You snowed in at home ? And can't get out ???
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actually between the storm over the weekend and the storm that came in tues-wed we had 50 inches of snow on the ground...

and for this winter season snow fall amounts, here in philadelphia we have more snow then buffalo, more then wyoming and colorado, even alaska
yeah, you could say im snowed in.... with another " clipper " forcasted for monday....

Warpdrvr · Feb 13, 2010

soon2betrucking said: ↑

actually between the storm over the weekend and the storm that came in tues-wed we had 50 inches of snow on the ground...

and for this winter season snow fall amounts, here in philadelphia we have more snow then buffalo, more then wyoming and colorado, even alaska
yeah, you could say im snowed in.... with another " clipper " forcasted for monday....
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More than even Montana...I talked to Roxy yesterday and she said there is bare patches of ground with no snow there in Missoula...

soon2betrucking · Feb 13, 2010

Warpdrvr said: ↑

More than even Montana...I talked to Roxy yesterday and she said there is bare patches of ground with no snow there in Missoula...
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ha ha yup... even more then montana... we have 50 inches on the ground between 2 storms and another 5-9 expected mon-tuesday...

Warpdrvr · Feb 13, 2010

Hope you have a plow on the front of your 'shaker S2B so you can get back out there...

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