Where are my beam trailer guys??? We deserve our own thread.

probably the most rewarding trailer I’ve ever pulled. Granted there’s a lot of physical and mental anguish somedays. Some dark twisted humor when you’re putting a step deck load on the bloody thing to make dispatch happy. Between that and the truck stop hero’s telling you what you already know… like you, all of us are married to our 3-1 trailers and it’s a large reason why I don’t go back down to 7 axles with a bigger sleeper.

happy trails.

 

were not hiring now and it's not because we're a good place to be, currently. i'll leave it at that.

beam guys tend to be cut from a different sort of cloth. i know that's very stereotypical to say but... anyone can load a floor, takes a certain type of mindset to load a beam. something the 'go go go' crowd doesn't typically have. i'll help just about anyone out. sure, there's companies that I tend to look the other way on, mostly due to the way their drivers have treated me in the past. but i will at least offer some help if i see them struggling or scratching their heads. beyond that everyone has a different way of doing it. i've seen some of the canadians, earl paddock and bellemare(?) load CAT excavators at dundalk... now, I don't speak French but man do they make something that's relatively easy look hard.

 

Little 3 axle Talbert I use to pull for R&L Drilling number of years ago. Setting at Dover elevator in Cincinnati in this pic. Dover is now Thyssun Krupp….

 

Pulling a beam you become one with the blocks.

 

Earl Paddock checking in... it does get interesting when the beam driver pool gets widened. Unfortunately theres only a few of us that pull them semi regularly, and then all of a sudden theres a bunch all loading at the same time! My hats off to you guys that load them every week, its always interesting to learn from a distance.

 

I first got my hands on a beam 11 years ago. Second driver in the fleet to give the second hand 1998 TrailKing a try with a mission to Keen in Aurora Ill. Its been a labour of love, or maybe just lots of labour since then, running them as far north as Whitehorse, YK and Labrador City, and as far south as Laredo and Miami. May not know all the tricks yet, but I sure enjoy watching peoples heads turn when you get something interesting loaded up.
Heres just a few of my recent moves.