24-HR Flatbed Shippers?

Those look like permit loads. So you start loading an hour before sunrise so you can be ready to boogie down the highway just as the curfew is lifted. Or get to the destination just before dark to unload. In my mind that's normal hours, no different than working construction.
Guess i wasn't clear before. It's certainly not that stupid 10 pm to 4 am crap that grocery warehouses enjoy so much.

 

You should go through and read a lot of catalinaflyer's older posts and talk to him before you make such assumptions. Look at his posts from a few months ago before he stopped pulling OS/OW and you would see and understand that those pictures he posted where loaded and unloaded late at night a lot of times, not just "a hour before sunrise" or "just before dark to unload". While the majority of "permit loads" might be loaded and run down the road during the day, there is quite a bit that isn't.

 

That's because you move black helicopter parts.

 

I can't begin to count the number of nights I was loading at 10:00pm or Midnight, tarping till just before sunrise so I could get a couple hour nap in before rolling at the 9:00am curfew bell. Same with unloading, arrive at the port at 2:00pm, wait on the ship to dock at 6:00pm then finally back under the crane at midnight where I would sit till 2-3:00am waiting on them to pick the wing.

Yes there were a lot of loads that everything was done during normal business hours but with the companies we hauled for they ran 24 hour factories and as such there was no "normal" hours, you roll in at 2:00am, you load/unload.

There are pages and pages of posts by myself and others from my company where we sat out in the parking lot for hours and even days waiting to load then finally pull in long after the sun has set to begin loading only to be expected to be rolling at the crack of dawn. It's the nature of the beast but we were compensated well above industry average for what we did.

Then we would have loads where we worked our arses off through the heat of the day loading, securing, tarping then because of the width we could only run at night.

What he said^^^

 

Yea and our favorite west coast hauler gets to run tonight into the port out in La for a 2am unld. Then if like the last time they kick him out and he has to find a parking spot with his big trl