My Experiance with Watkins Shepard!

Enjoying reading about your WS adventures. It will take me forever to get through this thread alone!

Still in CDL training and WS is definitely a place I'm considering when I graduate.

 

I'm considering going to dry-van from reefers because the reefers deliver at all hours of the day & night. Are dry-van hours any better and if so what can be expected with watkins shepard?
Thanks,
Vetted

 

Thanks AT. I also heard they do about 75% drop & hook, so I think I'll give them call.
Vetted

 

Hey AT do you plan to get back into OTR trucking ever?

 

You know those Lipton soup packets? They come in a couple of different flavors. Each box contains two packets and costs about $1.50 or so. Beefy Onion or Onion work great for potroast. Just sprinkle half a packet under and the other half on top of your meat, add about a cup of water and let that cook on low for about five hours. Then add whatever veggies you want (potatoes, onions, carrots and whatnot) and then sprinkle the other packet on top of the veggies and then let it cook until the veggies are done (if you put the veggies in when you start the meat, they cook into total mush).

No other seasoning required. Those packets are handy (and readily available in any grocery store). The other flavors (like the Garlic & Herb) are excellent cooked in a crockpot with just some potatoes and onions. I lived off of that in college.

So all you need is the meat, some veggies and a box of Lipton soup packets and you're good to go!

(I realize I'm responding to an old post, but it's taking me forever to read through this whole thread and I'm only up to January 2011!)

 

Hey brother not being a smart ##### but did you really have allot of 10-16 hr breaks? and if so how did ya make money? I know they are paper logs, but didn't that effect your mileage? 75% drop and hook had you dropping at off time correct? ...Thx I have been looking at them because of paper logs.

 

Where did you get 75% drop/hook? It's more like 75% furniture store offload! That's how AT and the rest of us made our money with the amount of stops we had. The more driving you do, the less money you make.