Flatbed questions, how much physical work is involved?

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Had to erase my post and start over, are you doing this for a company or you owner op ?
Drywall is easy, I don’t do it cuz it don’t pay enough.

 

Drop and hook basically is the trailer is loaded, you go hook up to the loaded trailers, hint; before you secure the load, do your pretrip inspection on the trailer. Idk how many times I’ve secured a trailer and when I’m ready to go, I find something wrong that I missed. Anyways, secure your load and at your destination you’ll probably wait to unload or drop and pick empty. If your only hauling drywall, that’s easy except for the tarping if required, but once you get use to it, it’s easy, I myself don’t tarp.

 

Drop and hook is NOT what you want with flatbed because with flatbed you normally have quite a bit of tools, gear, dunnage, accessories compared to dry van and reefer. If you do drop and hook with a flatbed you have to spend a significant amount of time moving your stuff to the other trailer. There are lots of videos on YouTube showing you what THAT flatbed drivers does on loads. I never did flatbed, so the above is my view from the outside.

 

Things I would ask would be like, are you gonna have enough room in the truck to store all Your securements, are the loaded trailers decent, etc. you’ll pick up things along as you go. How I learned a lot about securement was watching others and I ask questions.