My 10 day Orientation Experience with

Thank you for reopening the thread it is mine to help people get an understand of what a great company Watkins & Shepard is. Admin is I know you can block Kabar from threads I have my own similar thread I used to manage just block him from the Watkins DAC Folder threads it is a few simple clicks.

THANK YOU once again for reopening so I can continue my information providing to people who would really appreciate the information.

 

For everyone's information WE BROKE NO LAWS or RULES.

Also know this is not a normal thing for 10-day orientation drivers to go on a road trip like this. We left Saturday morning at 8am and returned at 10pm Sunday. Because we are LICENSE holders nothing to explain it was all legal and no rules were broken. ENOUGH said on that. Kelby drove the 1st leg, I drove 2nd leg, Doug drove 3rd leg and James drove 4th leg and Kelby drove final leg. It was great to have a LIVE load, I backed in a truck stop and then also at our 1st delivery which was dust an unhook. The doug bobtailed to the yard in Denver, we dropped the empty and hooked a loaded trailer coming back this way. It was great to be on the road real world, shifting and controlling on hills it was great. I could not believe how easy and safe up and down shifting on a hill was, my brakes NEVER got hot. Can't believe people people attempt to discount it because it is a real brake saver.

Now I will post on Day 5.

 

DAY 5,

Backing evaluation, everyone did well. 1 person still struggling a bit but did excellent today, you can tell he has been practicing. We are down to 10 people from the start of 13 last week. We then learned more about logs, then trip envelopes, CSA-2010. Pretty mellow day LOTS AND LOTS of rain it poured and now sun is out and all the puddles are almost gone. So far so good passed 2 driving evaluations and 3 backing evaluations, I think tomorrow will be our 3rd check ride that will include mountain shifting and operations, should be fun I learned a bunch on the ride over the weekend I am looking forward to it.

Not much to report today was a great day, I am a little tired I did not sleep well on the road.

Until tomorrow......

 

I have never purposely tried to insult you. I know more about trucking then you thing, just because I have not driven myself until this last 2 months. I have a family member who was been in trucking a long time. I ask that you PLEASE just stay off ANY THREAD that I PERSONALLY start. My threads will be 100% INFORMATIVE nothing negative or derogatory needs to be posted. If we are on another thread posting information which by the way before I post I even check with my family member to make sure I am correct. Leave me alone and I will leave you alone. Thanks and be safe buddy.