Another Watkins Shepard Thread

See you when you get here!

 

Hey Java Joe... I hope things go good for you up there. I was with CRST but things went really bad there. So I too have been dealing with getting my application done with W/S and so far it looks like I will be there hopefully on the 3rd also... I hope things go right. Do you know if everyone gets to take a plane up there? Im in So Cal.

 

Hey Koolkid, hope you can make it. They will pay for your bus fare up to Missoula, or if you decide to fly, you can book a flight and they will reimburse you for the amount of the bus fare to pay for the flight. I think I had to pay an additional $40 or so to fly... well worth it if you ask me. Good luck.

 

anyone know how the O/O side is doing in the western are? got my own truck hopefully. if i can get 2500 a week i will be fine.

 

Harley, sounds like your starting to enjoy it here, i run short haul outa sayreville nj, its nice to hear that your eager to get to the east coast, ever been here?, if not youll enjoy it, and then youll hate it, the North East, if you make it to sayreville, dont let them no you enjoy it a lot or they will have you running some local, or short haul while you wait on a load, and i dont think youll enjoy running into the bronx or brooklyn, and if you think youv backed in to some tight spots, you should see a lot of these places we have to back in, i always take pic of what we have to do, and i always leave my camera in my truck... one of these weeks ill remember to bring it home, and ill post the pic i have, if and when you make it out here, 1710, look for me.
take care, and best of luck

 

Bet they've got some nasty little furniture stores for you to be delivering at soon2be. Also sounds like you're in a sleeper tractor! What a brave man to be tackling the bronx and queens all the time. Do they still pay you mileage and piece count pay or hourly?

 

no no no!!! i dont do the bronx all the time, only gone there one time, and i was sooooo not happy about it. i usually run upstate new york, and even theo the rds up there are wide and not traveled quiet like New England states, the places we delver to up there remind me of trying to back into a in the bronx, i did drive in the bronx and brooklyn and manhat. and LI, while i was training for 2 weeks with a local driver, in a day cab with a pup, and then they put me in a sleeper with a 53'. most of the places we go to we should not have a 53' WITH a sleeper, but hell, im just a driver ya no? im not a dispacther that sits in an office all days who doesnt see what these places look like.....hmm...
i do love my job tho!!

 

But hey, that's Watkins Shepard for you. Welcome to it! If it werent for the learning quick how to do some real backing up when I started there, I dont know if I'd be half as efficient at my current LTL job.