I finally met an unhappy Watkins Shepard driver.

I'll omit my personal opinion here. And, provide you with as much "verbatim" as I can recall. His reasons for disliking WS, and wanting to leave.

Please remember...his words, not mine.

#1 He drives a Volvo, Volvos suck.

#2 He has a 13 speed. They suck, he wants a 10 speed.

#3 He wants a Peterbuilt, they're great. Especially the extended hoods.

#4 His truck will only run 66 mph.

#5 His truck will not pull a hard grade at 75 mph grossing 79k like his old W-9 would.

#6 A Peterbuilt has a smoother ride than his POS Volvo.

#7 He had 1200 miles to go, and only had 22 hours left on his 70. If he had a 75 mph truck, he could have run over 4000 miles this week. Instead of 3600 he was going to have in 6 days.

#8 Volvos suck

BTW, I got another one (truck) this week. I miss my Volvo already.

 

Actually, my thoughts run along the last sentence of your post. Will he be happy with ANY job?

As a rule, I try to cut any conversation as short as possible when dealing with people like this guy. This one lasted about 15 minutes. And was like listening to a broken record. The conversation "always" came back to his opinion of the Volvo he was driving, and how slow it was. And his need for a faster truck.

We all know the type I used to be there too. Our theme song -- Alabama -In a Hurry (to get things done)

"I rush and rush till life's no fun"
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