My Experiance with Watkins Shepard!

So lets see where did I leave off........


Oh ya,


So I left WY and made it to the Helena, MT terminal. Where I ran into Chris (charlb) got to spend 2 days hanging out with him lol and I also got to meet mike (mikeNC).

I had asked to go to the terminal because chris had said they were good at getting things fixed. So I get there and fill out the little write up sheet on the truck and was told it would be in, in a few hours. So no big deal they have a nice drivers lounge there. So I went out to my truck to get something and noticed that the red light was on, on the QC......


So I looked to see and the first message was just asking to double check to see if I still want to run on christmas, then I got another one from someone in Missoula, MT asking me to call him (i'm retarded and can't remember who it was you'll see why I forgot in a minute) but anyway so I called him and got some great news.......

It starts out with me telling him who I was and he says "oh yea so Tim Conner in Conover called me about you and said you were doing a great job and to give you a new truck" and then we talked for a few mintutes and turned out the truck was right there at that terminal!

so before I go any further THANK YOU TIM!!!!!!!!!

so anyway I go inside to find out where the truck was and where my new keys are, and I get the keys and Chris and I walked out to check it out.....and this is what we saw:













Truck #2026!

It's a 2007 Freightliner Century Class ST! The interior is #### near perfect and they had detailed it at the terminal before I had got there, the washed and polished the whole thing, they even armerald the floor! lol It runs great, it has a working bunk heater lol This truck is awesome!

I'll post a bunch more pics within the next week and within the next week or two I should have a Video Tour up on my YT Channel.


So after moving into the new truck they gave me a new matress and told me to bobtail up to the Mythical Shelby, MT terminal to get a Empty and then go to Great Falls, MT and get it loaded and then come back to the terminal so they could fix all the stuff I needed fixed, nothing major, Cracked Windsheild, No steps for cat walk, Not chain rack OR chains lol, tail light out, bunk heater wasn't working, needed my inverter installed, and a few other things i can't remember and they got it all done the next night. Then I got up and came to where I am now in South Dakota on my way to PA.


While at the terminal I got to meet quite a few drivers which was pretty cool, its allot differant there then conover. In conover most drivers sit in there trucks while there, but in helena they all hang out together in the lounge. AND remember about a week ago I posted about how I thought I was going to meet that guys Matt from 1776Filmz in truck 1776?


Well I get back from getting that trailer loaded and I sit down to eat in the lounge and this guy walks in and sits down to eat as well....and I say "I know you!" and he says "no you don't" and I say "ya your matt from 1776Filmz on YT" and he face was priceless it was kinda like lol He said "that has never happend before" lol So I was telling him how the same thing happens to me all the time from the TTR, everwhere I go a W/S driver comes up to me and asked if im AT lol





anyhoo so I'm headed to PA then I donno from there... but I got that 2300mile run out there and now this one is 2500miles back east so 2 great runs in a row!





American Trucker

 

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American Trucker

 

I drove 654 miles today!

And I just got my BIGGEST paycheck from Watkins Shepard so far....$937.98 Take home thats all I got to say to people that wine about .25cpm


Pretty uneventfull day just drove allot, parked here in Evensdale, IA. They have Blizzard warnings in effect until 9PM tomorrow night lol I just seem to be following these storms around






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This is continued from Page# 39 Post# 383


This is for my second month with Watkins Shepard (November 5th- December 2nd)


Miles:

week 5= 2061 Miles
week 6= 2761 Miles
week 7= 2909 Miles
week 8= 1621 Miles

Total: 9352 Miles
Average Per Week: 2338 Miles


Money:

week 5= $714.15
week 6= $899.29
week 7= $296.62
week 8= $937.98

Total: $2848.04 (All these $ Amounts are Deposits "after Taxes")


Again things are still good, I'm still very happy that I decided to go with Watkins Shepard. As you can see above my miles have been pretty good with the exception of week 8 that was Thanks Giving week. Also when looking at the money that those are the weeks that I got paid for the loads so they WILL NOT corrispond with the miles of the same week number.

As most of you know in the last month I did allot of sitting and quite a few restarts but even with that I was still able to get the above miles and money so it wasn't really all that bad lol






American Trucker

 

I just turned in a 2280 mile run and the one i'm on now will be 2500-2600 miles...I'd be happy if I could do one 3000 mile run every week lol. My bills are $1,350 a month not counting road exspenses....




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