My Experiance with Watkins Shepard!

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  1. xlsdraw

    xlsdraw Road Train Member

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    Sorry dude. Maybe next time. Are you safely home yet?
     
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  3. American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    it all depends...on what you get and where you get it from. My first truck was a mess old POS but it got the job done. It came with a cheap CB and was wired for an inverter, and had a pioneer CD player with AUX jack.


    My new(er) truck was washed and polished inside and out before I got it and I was able to get a new matteress from the terminal where i got it. It too was wired for an inverter and had a cheap cb in it, but this one has the freightliner CD player in it.


    Some times you get lucky other times you get to clean and scrub an old truck lol


    Welcome to the Family!


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  4. American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    not yet, almost though about 6.5 hours from MY bed!






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  5. xlsdraw

    xlsdraw Road Train Member

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    Hey AT, check out my thread sometime. Maybe you can give me some tips as I go along in my schooling. I would provide a link if I knew how.
     
  6. American-Trucker

    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    So today I get up to......... a foot of snow on my truck!!!!! and it was still comeing down good...:biggrin_25510:


    So I pre trip and cant leave because there are a bunch of idiots stuck in the TS so I had to wait an hour for them to get out.

    Then I finnally hit the road at 06:30 and the roads are horrible and everyone wants to do 10mph!!!!!!!!!!!!:biggrin_25510:

    Then the snow + idiot plow convoys doing 15mph + morning rush hour in NY and NJ = a migrane from hell!


    It took me from 0630 until 1115 to get from Exit 1 in MA to the NJ terminal should have been a 3.5 hour drive lol


    Then I can't find an MT and I now have a broker yelling at me because dispatch told him there would be one there for me....and after an hour and a half of running around they had the trailer i brought in MT so I just took that lol And I made it to the shipper by 1400 and they close at 1530 so I just barly made it....They loaded 6 pallets abour 2.5 feet high with boxes of paper...9,000lbs thats it from NJ to NC!:biggrin_2559:


    Anyway so then I haul butt south towards conover and got stuck in 5mph traffic all the way here so i gave up here in Tom's Brook, VA at the loves for 10 hours then a 5.25 hour drive to conover then home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    I have to do my trip envolopes for my last 2 trips + this one now! ####...:biggrin_2559:







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    American-Trucker Road Train Member

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    i toldya on the phone rememeber? Copy and paste the link from your browser (the bar at the top of your screen you type the website in)


    copy and paste = right click, then click copy then right click in your post then click paste! walla




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  8. crfingnutz

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    When they issued me my truck it was mechanically perfect (penske truck) the problem was the interior was about as dirty as a homeless persons clothes!! There were dirty socks on the arm rests, cigarette ashes all over the place, dirty jeans on the smelly mattress and a million other dirty and smelly things. Took me a whole weekend to clean it. Goodluck with your "New To You" truck. Almost forgot about the porn mags that were left under the bunk, this dude was into some freaky s#*t!!
     
  9. Lilbit

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  10. xlsdraw

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    Yes ma'am. :biggrin_25514:
     
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  11. crfingnutz

    crfingnutz Light Load Member

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    AT do you have the Cobra CB with Blue Tooth ? If so how do you like it? I would like to use the phone with out having to hold it. Plus i dont want to look like a tool with that thing in my ear( its one thing if your in the car but do you need the butt plug in your ear when your in the local deli) I'd rather use the cb mic so other drivers would wonder who i was taliking too!
     
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