Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

do you haul them 3 barriers side by side? or just 2 ? i always see guys that have 3. the straps are never touching the middle one.

 

i wouldnt want nothing to do with working in a road construction gig. ive delivered to a couple but traffic was routed onto the other side of the interstate... last year had some dumb broad try to get past me when the merge lane was ending and took out about 15 orange barrels, just barely missed that electric sign with the arrows.. ended up tearing up her front bumper , orange paint all over her white car... there was guys working only a couple hundred feet past where she got back behind my trailer... i couldnt believe what the hell i just saw.. and of course she takes the next exit a quarter mile up the road.

 

That is crazy. First thing they did was lay it right on the dirt when I unloaded. Then they are gonna kick it down the slope. The tarp thing is getting out of hand.

 

She probably needed the ladies room

 

Have loaded out of the place in Fernley several times. Never had to tarp them. Bentonite mats are a different story. Sort of the same thing, sitting out on the ground, load it and tarp, just to have it sit on the ground at the site.

 

i got the pleasure of tarping super sacks of bentonite, when it was raining. yeah wet bentonite on a aluminum trailer. it was like walking on a sheet of ice

 

havent been able to haul anything lately so heres my contribution to this thread. some pictures from several years ago.. much easier times being a company driver for a mega... must have hit my head to many times on that headache rack and came up with the idea to get into the business

 

I'll agree with you on one thing for sure. I wouldn't want to be doing another 20 years out there now. It's much worse than it was when I was working it, and "smart phones" have made it much worse, let alone the complete breakdown of consideration by the general public for anyone in their way, and add the current lack of law enforcement efforts on law breakers speeding etc. Much more of a war zone out there now. I know I peeved a lot of other drivers off going the speed limit through construction zones, but that's because I have a unique perspective they can't appreciate.

 

Rolling on the floor laughing. Glad to meet a fellow former mega driver. After I retired, they were the only one's that didn't try to force me through their school to learn what I already knew how to do, drive. I know they had their faults and embarrassments , but their flatbed division and it's training wasn't one of them.

Always remember my favorite joke while I was there. What's the difference between a Swift driver and a toilet?
The toilet can back up. Of course, they were referring to the van division. Thanks for the shots. My avatar is one of my loads from back then..good times, especially when the flatbedders descended on Laredo terminal.

 

We were taking them off the highway to Lancaster's storage yard, they're a pretty big contractor in that area. The steel fabricator I used to work for won a contract making some kind of inspection trollies to go underneath the new Tap, but IDK whatever happened with that. Contract just seemed to disappear from our schedule. We're supposed to haul barriers next week to the Herkimer compound for a Thruway project near Utica...