How old is too old to do flatbed?

Lol....I started school in France. Was an Army brat. We went to school all day. Around 2pm we got a piece of French bread and a huge chunk of chocolate. The kid next door got a Superman suite. Climbed a ladder onto his roof, jumped and broke his leg. Not sure why I just wrote that

 

Doesn't matter when I was doing flatbeds I was using steel tarps old ones and they were heavy as hell but it also comes easier tarps come smaller now but it depends can you jump or get on it

 

I'm in my early 60's, been pulling a flatbed for almost 2 years now. If you're used to a little physical work it's not hard. I personally don't want to deal with tarps, pull a trlr with a roll tite, I pickup my outbounds in Mn, too #### cold up here to be tarping in the winter, even the roll tite is stiff in -0 weather.

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Having to be up on a slippery flatbed trying to sling chains during the winter kinda concerns me.

Any of you flat bedders ever fall off the trailer?

 

I was on the front of my flatbed finishing tarping a load. I was bent down trying to pull a bungee cord that was just to short. I gave up and let go with one hand. That was enough to throw me off the trailer. I hit my fender then my Rigmaster on the way down to the concrete. I sat there for about 5 minutes waiting for something to happen. I was fine. It was a freaking miracle

Forget about slinging chains in the winter. I was in Washington State picking up a load of rough cut cedar fence railings. It had to be tarped. It was raining freezing rain and overcast. They loaded me on Friday and all went home. The load had to be tarped. It was dark and the only light was a ways away. I was on my ladder and 13' up trying to unroll my tarps on a slick surface. On my hands and knees feeling them getting cut from the rough cut cedar.

When I was done I almost had to cut my clothes off. I was soaking wet. My legs were blue stained from my jeans. My chest was red from my T-shirt underneath my blue sweatshirt which stained my neck blue also.

The only place close was a small scale. I pulled in and a sign said no parking. I was there maybe 10 minutes and a DOT showed up and knocked on my door. Before he could say anything I said give me a break. He must have seen the look on my face and me and said your ok and left. It snowed that night. When I woke up in the morning and got out to check the truck it looked like an Indian war tribe had circled the wagons all night from the tracks in the ground.