Any questions from prospects or lookers from real Watkins and Shepard drivers?

FWIW, I was asked (urged) to help unload 45k pounds of flour at the Sacramento Baking Company last week using a pallet jack. What made it interesting was that the trailer was on a slight incline with the ### a little higher than the nose. Oh well, the workout did me good.
However, I have had plenty of time to recover in the week I have been home with my truck in the shop getting a few DoT violations and APU fixed.

 

make sure you note that on your trip envelope you get paid to pallet jack

 

Found out today I will be getting one of the chocolate colored '06 Freightliner Columbia, really don't care as long as it's in decent shape. They all pay the same to drive and being a newbie I have to start somewhere. Truck is to arrive in Conover tomorrow.

 

so you can get those flour pallets off with a jack? good to know whats what im fearing i have to look forward to tonight. only thing i hate worse than manual labor is lumpers hahaha...so there ya go.
i had sugar pallets once a long time ago and i couldnt move them because a similair incline situation. there were like a 2100 lbs each. and i had to sit there all night until i could get a tcheck for the lumpers. wasnt bad enough, im just ########, i wont wake up dispatch or anyone unless its an emergency or really bad situation.

 

Yes, I'd hope I still have the stamina and focus on what I want to get into, at age 51 to cut the mustard! A while out for me, but even Roxy assured me that age was not the prime factor in hiring.

2021 +/-

Be safe guys!

 

Go get em'. Congrat's..........with a can do, positive attitude, you'll do great! Best of luck to you.

 

i'll have to keep an eye out for ya, let me know your truck # when you get it.



Congrats on making it though Orientation!




American Trucker

 

In our group we had three in their late twenties, two in their thirties, and one in their forties, plus two who went home who /were/ older, but they were also poor drivers.

Joe and I were talking about this and agree it is far harder to learn to drive a truck when you get older. So there may be more older drivers cut simply because it is harder for them (*cough* us) to learn a new skill than the younger guys.

 

here's a question...when your sittin in a truckstop far from home for a 34hrs restart, can you lock the truck up and go do stuff for the day???, or do you need to stay with the truck...??

 

yep you can do whatever you want.




American Trucker