worst thing about flatbeds

Trying to find all your gear after you leave it parked for a few months.
I've learned that the chains generally migrate to tractors or combines.
The 2'' straps are usually in a frozen ball in back of someones pickup.
Bungy cords just kind of run off as soon as you look the other way. The only ones left are the wounded ones missing an end that couldn't escape.
Even my carpet chunks find their way out as tractor seat cushions.

 

We prefer to use rolled up feed sacks.

 

I don't think anyone picked up that one yet......I did.....

 

Tarps, heat, cold, sweltering, tarps, freezing, wet, tarps, snowing, blistering, windy conditions. Oh and did I mention TARPS in any weather condition?

 

Driving when the wind is blowing sideways and you have a low profile load in the hammer lane. Oops.....the OP said "the worst things"..... Disregard

 

They're too #### high! I'm a short lil bugger, so I went low bed instead...

 

They're too high to haul anything that pays well.

 

If you are physically capable of almost any blue collar job flatbedding is pretty simple

For a new driver, I think the hardest part is backing a spread. It was for me at least. starling, chaining, load placement, was all pretty common sense to me

 

What he said too...

 

Being told how to dress.