Gotta love Flatbed to do Flatbed

Soooo, how much does that liteweight aluminum stepdeck weigh again???

 

Hey...us door swinger have problems in winter too, have you try moving tandems on ice!? man! We have to find a flatbedder to lend us a piece if wood! and u know what they say about them flatbedder and their wood....

 

dont flatbed drivers have it easier when it comes to pick/delivery though?

like most places that you pickup or drop loads you dont have to park in a tight spot with no space you just swing around and have a forklift unload/load you?

also if your parking in a truck stop its sometimes easier because you can see over your load at the truck next to you on the blind side.

also door swingers have those crazy loads sometimes with 8 drops in brooklyn... yea flatbed dont got to deal with that BS atleast.

 

Sounds to me like you've almost talked yourself into making the jump over t the flat side of the force, hand...

 

Yep, you can see right over your load..... Periscope anyone? But a lot of the time we are over width, over height, over weight or any combination there of. I have been 15 feet tall, 13 wide, 107 feet long nose to tail and grossing 126k. Not all at the same time. At least door swingers have an address. Many times the directions we get are "just drive around (insert town name here) you will find it. Better yet try delivering to the middle of nowhere on N Dakota.

This load was 14'8" tall 11'6" wide and grossing 126k. Hills were real long on one side and short on the other.

 

Yup a lot easier.......................considering 90% of the stuff I haul I can't see over, or around. I consider it a great day if I can look under the load and see the front axle on the trailer.

Oh and did I mention that most of these loads have to be pulled out through a door that at best only has a couple inches of clearance on either side then backed in through another door with the same couple inches. The big boxes have to be pulled into the largest building in the world through a tunnel that's exactly 1 foot wider than the box then blind sided in between airplanes. The wings have to be backed up a ramp into a dock height building and through a door that is again only a foot wider than the load itself.

Ask some of the steel haulers about backing down into the loading platforms at the steel plants where your backing out of the bright sun into a dark building and have 1" of clearance on either side of your trailer. You can't be off by 1/2" or you'll tear up the rub-rails. At least when I back up at the customer I have a bunch of people watching and out on the road I have a couple pilots with radios watching.

 

I've had many multiple stops in Brooklyn. Having to untarp and tarp again at each one. The difference, the vast majority of our loads are normal working hours. Oh and we get paid better.