Why do some truckers dislike flatbed trucking

No,but some of us sure .......nope,uh,uh,I aint gonna say it....nope. I was accused on a different thread in a left-handed kind of way;I should be more serious,so,nope,I aint gonna say it..

 

So you can drive in the rain and snow, day or night but you still have to pay someone to unload your trailer?

 

Where do they keep load locks on a flatbed?

 

Oh great, now you've really confused the newbies.

 

Yeah but our trailers dont need to be fueled. One intresting thing ive seen is a lot more reefers going to spread axle trailers. I think they are getting tired of sliding tandems.

 

Some reefer/van guys are slow learners. Flatbed guys have known the advantages of a spread for decades. One guy told me he didn't order a spread because "it was more expensive" I guess paying $8.50+ to scale every load at the truck stop doesn't count in his cost of ownership figures?

 

Now that's funny!

 

Just bought my flatbed and have about a week of box loads left and hand the box over to my new driver. Most of my supplies arrived today as I was getting loaded in my home town. Actually unload the R+L guy in the parking lot of the place I was loading at. My son brought my PU over and we moved the 800 lbs of chain and tarps and binders and and and into the PU. Only a heat index of 112.

And it got me thinking.

WTF am I thinking. I bit ch when I have to open and close doors in this heat.

As far as some talk about the money and it is not much more. For O/O's, $.50 more/mile is almost all net profit. And that is on low side when you consider that you can do that on 1,000+ mile loads compared to 400-500 mile on the van side.

So excited and scared all at the same time. It has been years since I pulled a skateboard and never had to tarp. But i'm not a hot shot so I will take it slow and not scared to ask for help.

 

one thing ive learned in my short career so far, there is no thing as too much securement on any type of load.

 

I usually make more money on the shorter runs than longer. The long the run the less they want to pay per mile. Not always though.