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I'm a flatbedder!

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by gravdigr, Jul 27, 2012.

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  1. Aug 10, 2012 #221
    Logan76

    Logan76 Crusty In Training

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    Easy now, I haul some of that pre-loaded gravy!!!

    That's the thing I dislike the most about flatbedding here where I work, pre-loaded trailers, but where I work it's a necessary evil.
     
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  3. Aug 10, 2012 #222
    CAXPT

    CAXPT Road Train Member

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    Actually it's not so much the pre-loaded trailer I hate, it's the driver that dropped it with issues that I have a problem with. :D

    Plus I agree with Dirty Diesel's notes below too. ;-)
     
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  4. Aug 10, 2012 #223
    DrtyDiesel

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    I don't care for pre loaded trailer only because I'm very crazy about three things

    1. How much securement is used
    2. How the product is secured
    3. How the load is tarped

    Those are the three main things I can't stand about pre loaded trailers. I will say this, if it wasn't for pre loaded trailers I wouldn't be sitting at home right now.

    Ethan
     
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  5. Aug 10, 2012 #224
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    Why I pulled out flatbed, I could NOT STAND pre-loaded trailers with crappy tarps and next to none in the securing department. Also I blew the same knee cap out twice and it won't take another blow, rather lose my favorite line of work than the ability to walk.
     
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  7. Aug 10, 2012 #225
    snowwy

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    i just hate swapping trailers, PERIOD.

    cuz no one takes care of there crap.
     
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  8. Aug 11, 2012 #226
    DrtyDiesel

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    My trailer got worked on previously. It only has 12 winches....I have 22 straps.....

    Ethan
     
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  9. Aug 11, 2012 #227
    gravdigr

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    That was one of the biggest things I hated about pulling dry van. I have hooked up to 5 different trailers in 1 day before. Full inspection on each new trailer and you were pretty much guaranteed to find something wrong. I picked up a loaded trailer once that was t-called at one of the company terminals by another driver....One of the trailer tires was blown and rode on until it was nothing but 2 sidewalls. So not only did this joker blow a tire and ride on it for miles, he dropped the trailer and never called in that it needed a new tire leaving the problem for the next driver to power the load...me.

    Now I pull the same trailer every day. So each day during my safety check I'm looking at the same trailer which makes it easier to find problems, at least I think so, since I am working with a piece of equipment I am familiar with as far as condition and wear go. If I'm driving I can notice if it's pulling odd, or not brakeing well, making a strange noise, etc.

    I never what to change trailers like I used to ever again.
     
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  10. Aug 11, 2012 #228
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    Yeah, the most I've pulled a trailer around was for 6 years, and that was when I started. It was a 99 Great Dane, spring ride, sliding tandems. Sadly, it fell a part going down the highway one day. 76k, hit a HUGE pot hole, BOOM BOOOM BOOM YANK BOOM CRUNCH. 2 minutes later after I got my marbles, BOOM. 4-wheeler not paying attention whacked it.

    Pre-loads were nice, but some guys didn't care how good in condition it was.
     
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  11. Aug 11, 2012 #229
    Logan76

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    Luckily I work with professionals for the most part, and its pretty rare that you get a load that looks like crap or isnt properly secured, and if you do run into that you know who to go find since were a small company.
     
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  12. Aug 11, 2012 #230
    SHC

    SHC Spoiled Rotten Brat O/O

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    So when another driver "drops" a loaded trailer, they leave all the securement stuff and tarps on it???

    I did just a few trailer swaps while I was with Pape and you just took all your stuff off and put a "shop" tarp on the load. Only reason i did the swap was because it got me out of the yard with a machinery load instead of waiting around to unload the next morning and reload. So I didn't mind at all....

    If you guys have to leave your equipment on the load you drop, that would suck, because most likely the driver dropping it would have used his crappy chains and binders and tarps becasue he knew he was getting rid of them
     
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