What have you heard or know about Watkins & Shepard?

hopefully watkins will get it in gear and make some changes to bring those bad scores down. i'm sure the higher ups are none too happy with those scores. obviously, it can deter people from wanting to drive for their company

 

I retract my statement

 

Funny math you are using. They only have 4 violations in almost 2 years so unless they have only 8 drivers your half the drivers statement is way off. Always a few bad apples but it doesn't mean the whole company is bad.

 

Your right. I stand corrected.

 

I worked at Watkins for a year and a half solo. This was my first trucking job and overall a great experience. After that year and a half me and the wife went team. After we went team they took me out of my Penske truck and put us in one of the red trucks. It had #### near 900k miles on it but it seemed clean. Then after about a month it started breaking down, just about every week. After a while of this, and asking for a differnt truck, dispatch started to make comments about us. We did not want to break down, we were not being lazy. We really didnt want to be broke down on the side of the road in Needles, Ca in the summer. It got to the point were we werent making any money. Basically I got a good start at Watkins but after a while it was time to move on. After leaving Watkins me and the wife went to US Xpress, killed miles ever week in a truck with less than 100k miles that ran like a champ.

 

We work at US Xpress, gotten a new truck every year.