so, watkins shepard or prime for teams?

So, after many a years with many companies, and 3 trucks of my own, and the rough times we encounter in today's world, my wife and I have decided it was best that we sell our 2 Pete's and join the world of company drivers. Now, I know I will be getting a lot of lip from many people here about not becoming a company driver, however, my wife and I have put much thought behind our move and feel as though it would be best for the both of us.
After 37 years of driving together and as solo drivers, I/we don't need people telling us what we should or should not do.
Linda( my wife ) and I have decided that we like what Prime and Watkins Shepard have to offer. Linda has spend many hours reading thread after thread on Watkins and Shepard, and can not seem to locate the bad in that company. Linda, however was able to find plenty bad about Prime. But I always say, "Can't always believe what you read" and a lot of what we read is from past employees, who left on bad terms with a company.

So, I come here baring information on both companies. Which company is better to work for?
Cant find much information about the teams at Watkins and Shepard, which I would like to hear more of, if any is available.

Thank you for taking the time to read our post, and look forward to the replies.

Linda and Mark

 

Well, allow me to start out by saying thank you for the replies we have recieved. and the few private messages as well.
about the paperless logs, that seems to be the new thing, my wife was just speaking with a Watkins and Shepard driver the other night, and was told they too will be going paperless, or at least they are trying it out in some of their trucks.
3000 miles a week for teams at prime seems to be a rather low number by my count. i understand watkins and shepard driver usualy avrg around 3000 miles a week for their solo drivers. so i would imagine they get around 2200-2800 as we stand in our econemy.
I would also imagine watkins and shepard drivers teams avrg around 5-7000 a week? could be wrong.
why would a "company" driver boo hoo over dh miles? for years it was ok for my wife and i to boo hoo, as we owned our own trucks, and had to take those dh miles as a lose, 700 - 800 max was as far as we would dh, if it paid more, maybe more then 800, but didnt have to dh very often.
i did however locate a thread about watkins shepard, some 1,2xx pages, couldnt get to read all of them, but spent much time reading some of the more recent threads and read mostly good things, a few arguments between some fellow drivers, that my wife and i found to be houmorious reading for a night off. we did find many bad as well as many good pages on prime. but prime is bigger then watkins and shepard, therefor we figure more mad drivers.
prime trucks go slower, we are used to running the posted speed limits, even 80mph out in ut. and we do understand that becoming company drivers we will be limited as to how fast our travel could be. watkins and shepard trucks seem to be limited at or about 65mph, where as prime maybe limited at 62? 63? it will be hard to adjust to the slower speeds, as we will feel like sitting ducks on the highways and byways.
however, it will reduce the chances of a speeding ticket in slohio and calif.
my wife and i will be taking much time to put our thoughts into what our choice will be, as we are preparing to rid our last truck in sept.
this will give us ample time to hear from either companies and compare the 2. we do like both equaly. its just a matter of who we want to work for.
again, from my wife and i, we thank you for taking the time of day to read and respond to our post and look forward to more great reading.