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Leaving Flatbed

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by -insert name-, Jul 26, 2012.

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  1. Jul 26, 2012 #1
    -insert name-

    -insert name- ATM squishier

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    Its been a good 15 years pulling flats around, I am sad to say I won't be around it for more years. I got a fully paid for truck, gonna trade my rack in and see about buying/leasing a van trailer.

    I wish all you flatbedders luck and safe drving. Flatbeding can kill but makes money.
     
    -insert name-, Jul 26, 2012
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  3. Jul 26, 2012 #2
    CenutryClass

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    Why go from specialized to competing with like a million other trucks for reefer work.

    I know you have your personal reasons, and your truck is paid off. Best of luck to you man.
     
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  4. Jul 26, 2012 #3
    Hegemeister

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    Going Dry is gunna make you feel like your on vacation. THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!
     
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  5. Jul 26, 2012 #4
    CAXPT

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    You'll be back. :D

    When I drove some van ,intermodal and tanker 2 years ago, I kept looking at and critiquing every flatbed load that went by me. It drove me nuts. I'm resigned to the fact that I like flatbed work more than anything else....so you may too, after hauling that box around and noticing that there is no challenge in the door slamming jobs. :D

    You know what they say, when you go flatbed, you don't go back.
    :biggrin_25526:
    Kind of like you don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.
     
    CAXPT, Jul 26, 2012
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  7. Jul 26, 2012 #5
    AZS

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    but why? you have a close call with hurting yourself or something just guessing from the 'can kill' part of it.
     
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  8. Jul 27, 2012 #6
    Semi Crazy

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    Have fun yanking that 53' rolling warehouse around!
     
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  9. Jul 27, 2012 #7
    SHC

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    Going by your location information, you will be able to do just as well pulling a van as long as you stick to niche stuff such as hazmat and LTL. Ler the big boys deal with all the cheap Walmart and big box freight.
     
    SHC, Jul 27, 2012
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  10. Jul 27, 2012 #8
    -insert name-

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    One of my main reasons is my knee's are killing me, the only painkiller that works was prescribed and it says I can't operate anything over 5GVW on it. Don't want to get caught with that stuff in the truck. I'll be sitting at the house for 3-4 weeks while International gets all of Boyd's stuff off and out of the computers, etc. Maybe an extra week depending on how much recall work it needs. I know one thing, those singles are coming off. I blow one pulling the sliding tandem I'm looking at, that gator will take something out. Getting Firestone all season all around, replacing that dang electric APU with a diesel one. Plus having a condo-sleeper thing fitted. The trailer I'm looking at is a 08 Great dance. Plywood floor and walls.

    And yes, I have had a close call a couple of times while having lumber put on. Put that bundle on the other side and pushed the other right off. The biggest reason is the Lowe's DC's. I'm tired of their bull. Now I'm keeping WELL away from DC's. Another close call was high winds. Threw a strap over, the wind got, brought it back over and caught my neck.
    *reading other posts*
    If I do come back to flatbed, it will be lugging a curtain around. Something where I don't have to use my knee's to push off whiling tarpping a high load. Such has lumber.
    *reading more*
    AH, thanks SHC. I do see a lot of vans coming off of exit ramps.
     
    -insert name-, Jul 27, 2012
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  11. Jul 27, 2012 #9
    snowwy

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    can't says i blame ya brother. the only good thing i see about flatbedding is the exercise.

    i've had butthead loads that like to float loose on bumpy roads. tarping load after load. freezing snow, summer heat. gale force winds. lotsa reasons why flatbedders quit.

    i wished i had a curtain.

    tanks pay the best. but man they can beat the crap of the transmission.
     
    snowwy, Jul 27, 2012
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  12. Jul 27, 2012 #10
    -insert name-

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    Oh woo, got my truck back earlier! Only recall work was the Regen. And Boyd's stuff came out easily, just a bunch of programs. Also got my trailer. It was my friend's but he only used it for storage after the airlines got ripped out. Its fixed and rolls smooth. Now if I could just figure out how to slide the tandems.
     
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