Got my job offer today

Take all your notes/atlas to eval. Everything you learned on the truck/ running the truck is on the test. No time limit so take your time. Read the question and all the answers then eliminate. Eval is on Sunday/Monday and Tuesday/Wednesday

 

I tarp everytime I lay down in the sleeper. Get paid $30 each time.(Tarping oneself with blanket)lol

 

Ah yes, conestogas. I saw a Maverick pulling one of the covered-wagon types the other day in Indiana. Not really the kind I was thinking about. I like the ones where you pull back the whole thing to the front or back. The covered-wagon would still seem like an improvement over tarping.
Wish the pull-backs were company-wide. Would be much more efficient and less time consuming than tarping (thus more loads being delivered) considering 99% of what we haul in regular flatbed would be serviced just fine by those.
But, I have no experience with them and maybe they suck, so who knows. I'd like to think they didn't, though.

 

Any trailer you see that is out of the normal with maverick is on a dedicated account. We haul lumber in Conestoga flatbeds and curtinside flat beds.




a few guys pull covered wagons out of the steel plant by Madison


I pull glass in Conestoga flatbeds and step decks, also Covered double drop trailers.

 

Yeah, that top left one is what I was thinking of.

 

the problem with a conastoga is that some loads can not be loaded by a crain or fork truck becouse they can not get all the way to the front or back. i saw a guy the other day that had to back under his load.

 

I had to back under and pull under alot of loads...even with a flatbed...just all depends on what the customer has

 

That, plus there are a fair number of plate loads that won't fit (most of my plate loads overhang on a 96 inch, and run right up to the outer edge of the rub rails on a 102), and they are just as prone to high wind issues when empty as a dry van trailer.

I've pulled both regular decks with tarps and those "roll tights", and I'll stick with regular deck every time. Tarping is actually pretty easy (if time consuming at times) once you get the hang of it.