My Experiance with Watkins Shepard!

Delivered to the caves in KC, MO today, interesting to say the least....

Then i moved 3 miles over to the J, i HATE this TS, i'll be heading 45 min south at 330am to get loaded heading to charlotte, nc for monday.

I've done a little over 3200 miles in the last 7 days over $1,300 gross.



American Trucker

 

Caves:









The Chili Pepper farm i loaded at the other day down by the Mexican Boarder:



The leaf spring that broke last week:







American Trucker

 

Got to the shipper 0400 this morning, loaded me pretty quick and was rolling. I've got 44,000lbs of kitty Litter .

Anyhoo i'm short on hours so i only made it as far as KY for the night, i'll make it to either TN or NC tomorrow and deliver monday.


Its been nothing but 20+mph wind since i left NM. At least i've been 77K+ ever since NM lol





American Trucker

 

Oak Grove, Pilot




American Trucker

 

Funny story:

While sitting in the Bobtail area waiting for them to load my trailer, a O/O leased onto JBHunt pulls his Busted Volvo in front of my truck and stop (he came up the hill with 44K in the box, tandems ALL the way back and it sounded like the truck was in 8th gear! the thing sounded like it was about to die) He jumps out and sees me in the truck.

Then he comes over and says "hey man have you ever loaded here before?"
so i say yes
then he asks "do you think they'll reload this in a good trailer?"
i said no.....
then he says " i cant get the tandems to slide..."

So i grab my flash light and get out, and he pulls the lever out and all 4 pins come right out, so i double check to make sure there all out and he gets in and trys to slide them.....the truck/trailer take off backwards at 15mph!

He gets out and is like See! I just looked at him and said "your breaks arent doing anything lol You need either a wheel chock or back upto one of those curbs and push back.

and he points to a 3" tall curb with polls right behind it and says can i do it there? and I say "umm no see those concrete polls you'll hit them when the trailer moves......"


Then hes like oh ya ok. So i asked him if he had any WD40 and he did so he sprayed down the rails. and he's like i shoulda thought of a curb or WD40...Then he tries to move them again and like magic they move. Then he asked me where to put them


some owner op

so he thanks me and tells me about his military driving exp and all the years he's been OTR and how hard he worked to become a O/O. He says "they loaded it to heavy thats why it wouldnt slide" i said "no i think the problem is its a POS JBHunt trailer lol"

Then he gives me his Biz Card "Load Master Inc" and then leaves while grinding every gear and rocking the truck all over the place .


Then about 2 hours later i see him on the side of I-70 East Bound on the shoulder with the hood up .






American Trucker