My Experiance with Watkins Shepard!

Thanks, and no I didnt im trying to find it now though!



American Trucker

 

http://www.weather.com/outlook/videos/iwitness-snow-explodes-off-semi-19594


American Trucker

 

Thats funny I've often though about finding a 13' 7-13' 9 bridge to clean the snow off trailers lol I dont know about at 65mph though lol



American Trucker

 

Got my 3 stops off pretty quick today, I was MT at 3:15 and I told dispatch yesterday I would be MT at 3:15......I'm just that good!


Then I go to fuel before I head over to get loaded, it was this little BP and OMG! I could have pissed 50 gallons into my tank faster then these pumps pumped it! It took me 45 minutes to get 50 gallons! And of corse theres no card reader so they have to CALL it in and sit on hold and I was pissed!


So then I call the shipper because of course there address doesnt exist....And she tells me how to get there....and even says thats how i get to work everyday. So I follow here directions and end up 20 minutes in the Wrong direction, its amazing that she finds her way to work....

Then I went to scale it, the load was 41,000lbs on the paper work and so I new I wasn't over gross but it felt Az$ heavy so I weighed it and of course 450 lbs over on the tandems....but I've got slideing them down to a science!

Then I drove a few minutes further down the road to this pilot here in Walcott, IA



AND I blew and GREAT opertunity to make a totorial video only because I was short on time. I missed the enterance to my last stop and of corse there on a deadend road.....but there was a tiny little col-de-sac at the end. And I may not know everything about driveing trucks or be the best driver out here but I do have some pretty cool tricks up my sleeve...

So I went down the road and there where these guys watching and shaking there heads like "look at that idiot". Well I get down there and BAM 10 secound flat I was faceing the other way! This is something EVERY driver needs to know how to do, this was NO big col-de-sac this one was about as wide as the trailer is long, luckily I learned to do this on an even smaller one with a 379EXHD Pete!



Then yesterday I sent dispatch a message telling her EXACLTY when i'd be MT and how many hours I would have left on my 11 and 14 and I told her I would be short on hours for the next 3 days. So she sent me a load minutes later. I reply "I can't get it there on the 9th, i dont have enough hours". She replies "call the broker they set up the appointments" So I look at the Load Assingment and theres nothing on there about a broker..... So I called her and left a Voice mail asking for the Brokers number....Still havent heard back and I have the load...So if this is a broker load this is a sheety broker!

Because I'm just that good I might be able to get it there on the 10th with JUST enough hours to get back to conover...or they'll get it on the 11th, I hope not but I can't control everything.....Not yet anyway!





American Trucker