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

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  1. fisher guy

    fisher guy Road Train Member

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    just sitting around the house bored and I figured I'd see who else on here runs beam/rail trailers. I pull one full time for a mining company in Florida. We have floor trailers as well but it seems I am the only one in the company that seems to enjoy pulling a beam. In all honesty its only because I just don't want people moving my stuff around lol. But without further a do here are some of the loads I've hauled with mine. Feel free to post pics of yours image5.jpeg image4.jpeg image3.jpeg image2.jpeg image0.jpeg
     
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  3. stwik

    stwik Road Train Member

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    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.
     
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    fisher guy Road Train Member

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    That's awesome, I used to want to get on with keen back in the day but whenever i tried they weren't hiring at the time. One thing I've noticed with beam trailer guys is that we all try to help each other a little more than other trailers....Just today another company was helping me move dead 773's out of Georgia. We never met before, we didn't load together, and we didn't run together but they were at my yard when i got back and we shot the stuff for an hour or so. As we were waiting on tires to get put on (long story) I helped him get unloaded and he helped me. It kind of reminded me of flat bedding back in the day lol. I was checking out how he loaded his truck and he was checking out how i loaded mine. We both came out of there learning a few new tricks lol
     
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    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.
     
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  6. OLDSKOOLERnWV

    OLDSKOOLERnWV Captain Redbeard

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    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….

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  7. IH Truck Guy

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    Pulling a beam you become one with the blocks.
     
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