I spend a great deal of time, sureveying, researching and snooping on established heavy haul companies. One thing that i have come to find is that these companies seem to end up with tons of flatbed trailers. So much so, they seemed to be forced to stack them and stuff them in every available nook and cranny in their available yard space.
My question is.
Is it safe to say flatbeds pay for nine axles or is it a consequence of owner ship of your 50ton+ trailers that you are put in position to need lots of flats / steps/ etc. to supplement the heavy trailers?
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Heavy haul Chicken vs. Egg
Discussion in 'Heavy Haul Trucking Forum' started by kptnt2016, Apr 2, 2020.
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Take a monster crane.
Put the boom on one flat. Weights on another, One tread on a third. Other tread on the fouth, Boom hooks and doodads on the fifth. Cables on a sixth...LoneCowboy, fast1buzz and Landincoldfire Thank this. -
when the phone rings and you don't have the equipment, you don't get the job!
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I sit in a mixer construction company back home one day in the office surrounded by macks and Lowboys for TBH company in Maryland (18 wheelers and cement mixers) and the Veep idiot actually tells me a bald faced lie that the class A in my pocket is too much qualification.
I should have taken them to court, but I was not yet experienced in such matters. But I learned.
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The right tool for the job. Sure they will be impressed when we show up with a self steering Faymonville. But at the end of the day when a spread axle step deck would of made the job so much easier. Now who feels a fool.
Like me right now. My last Vancouver load was decent besides the hiccup with the spread. We made it work because that's what we do. I'm on my way back and do I have a spread? Nope. A tridem 48' flatbed. -
Then there's a crane move, a few heavy haul trucks, one very heavy haul for the house and dozens of flats/steps to move all the rest of the gear. We moved a crane from Arlington, TX back to it's laydown yard in Gary, IN many years ago after it lifted the roof on Jerry's playpen and that was over 100 "legal" size loads alone. I made 8 trips with a 4 axle truck and 3 axle lowboy hauling 1 counterweight each trip and there were 2 of us just moving those. There were at least 50 loads of boom sections (probably closer to 100) and who knows how many loads of "fall offs", the nuts and bolts that hold the whole thing together.
I worked for another company that specialized in pre-stressed concrete buildings and bridges, we had 6 trucks and 50+ trailers. Those sat around for months at a time, all stacked up to take up less space then when it came time to move a building, they would all get loaded with pieces, moved to the job site, staged, then as they unloaded, stacked up, brought back to the yard and parked till time for the next one. We built a packing plant in Hereford, TX that took over 300 loads. When it came time for a bridge, same thing, the whole bridge would get loaded onto stretch flats and taken to the job site then stacked up and brought back to wait on the next one.LoneCowboy, blairandgretchen, FoolsErrand and 5 others Thank this. -
That was some good info.
I wasnt thinking in terms of 13+ axle trailers but maybe I need to think bigger.
My goal is and has been to purchase and operate trailers that I can put to work with a reasonable frequency. I'm still struggling with pricing structures as quality CUSTOMERS. Flatbed seem to be absolute necessities as well as steps.
But California's trucking / HH / OPEN DECK market seems to have a 80% bottom feeder lose money every load crowd as well as a 15% profitable every load where every job comes by relationship.
Me on the other hand, I'm in the leftover 5% sometimes we can get a $2500 load to go 22 miles with a stepdeck. Sometimes $800 for a #### 65,000lb. Haul truck for 100 miles.
My trucking life is like a box of chocolates.
Much appreciated @catalinaflyer
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