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My Experiance with Watkins Shepard!

Discussion in 'Watkins & Shepard' started by American-Trucker, Sep 25, 2010.

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  1. Dec 24, 2010 #1131
    Deserted1

    Deserted1 Medium Load Member

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    LOL Warp, let him soak up the sights haha... Anyway funny you mention Desert Center, my bud at Fedex is actually looking forward to getting off his local route to do swaps in Desert Center LOL... Its a pretty well known spot evidently.
     
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  3. Dec 24, 2010 #1132
    potterHSE

    potterHSE Bobtail Member

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    Thanks AT for the answer. i thought you were running pretty good back then for the type of loads you had, multi stops n'all.
     
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  4. Dec 24, 2010 #1133
    xlsdraw

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    I wonder how much $$$ I could lose in 34 hours haha


    34 Hours? Dang son, you can loose it all in 34 seconds!!!!!!:yes2557:


    Of course, you could also roll out of there a Millionaire..................NOT!!
     
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  5. Dec 24, 2010 #1134
    crfingnutz

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    Merry Christmas AT! Hope you get your bonus! Stay safe
     
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  7. Dec 24, 2010 #1135
    Wedge

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    Merry Christmas, AT.:biggrin_25525:
     
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  8. Dec 25, 2010 #1136
    American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    Thanks guys! Merry Christmas to you to!






    American Trucker
     
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  9. Dec 25, 2010 #1137
    American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    I drove 55 for far to long today!

    I drove to the SFS terminal. dropped my trailer, then bobtailed over to miller picked up a loaded trailer there. There was another W/S there that I talked to he was suposed to pick up a loaded trailer yesterday and the guys at miller left before they finished loading it and hes been there ever since....

    So I slid my tandems to where I thought they would be CA legal and be legal weight wise. Then I drove over to burrtec to use there scale and I had it right on the money, Steers: 11,220 Drives: 31,860 Tandems: 32,160 Gross: 75,290:biggrin_25525:


    Then I got to sit in bumper to bumper traffic for ever then do 10mph up every little hill but I made it! I'm sittin here at the TA Las Vagas! Not to happy though Everything's closed (food) except for the casinos but I'm not walking that far lol.


    So I've never pulled a beer load that was loaded so Half ##* before, I had to stop and Spend $82 on straps just to sercure this mess. I'm attaching pics:

    BEFORE:

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    AFTER:

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    It aint moving now!





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  10. Dec 25, 2010 #1138
    BackIsSore

    BackIsSore Road Train Member

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    With as much of the weight on those skids and the way the pallets kind of locked the kegs in together, you would've been alright the first time around as long as if you werent driving the truck like the nascar. But it's never a bad idea to take extra caution. I'd say be more nervous about the center of load unless you've crawled around making sure things are ok, the pallets I see ahead of the kegs with cans lean real easy if they didnt shrink them enough. I had to haul empty kegs once and it was nearly impossible but somehow made it without a mess all over the trailer!
     
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  11. Dec 25, 2010 #1139
    American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    I didnt like that that last pallet had th kegs sideways....Had they had them going the other way like the pallet next to it I wouldnt have been worried. I just didn't want to have them roll off the back. When I got to the TS to buy and put on the new straps the 2 I had in there had slid down the keg and were no longer holding anything.....and I had them so tight the walls where bowed in.




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  12. Dec 25, 2010 #1140
    American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    Oh ya and thats why I'm not a flat bedder, I'd have 10 chains on things that only need 4......haha




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