Destination Excellence???

Also, learn to back too. Backing a flat is a lot different than backimg a reefer. Also, grocery warehouses are very tight. Especially in the Northeast. Also, get used to trying to sleep right next to a giant fridge that kicks on every half hour.

 

I agree that flatbed is better than reefer when it comes to how you are treated. Night running is generally the exception pulling flatbed and the rule in reefer.

Without tickets or accidents what contributed to your CSA score?

 

Oh.. A couple more things. Reefer tuggin and delivering requires you to deal with lumpers and companies contracted to unload recievers freight. Not just is it another annoying part of the gig its often a very unpleasent encounter.

Something that bugged me in your initial post. There is nothing wrong with wearing boots and jeans while doing this work. Infact it grosses me out to see people walking around in flip flops and sweats looking like a piece of walmart trash. Same people driving around with there feet on the dash. But whatever you wanna do, go ahead and wear flip flops and get urine and feces on your bare feet all ya wanna. Crawl in your blankies and sleep tight.

Stick to the boots and jeans driver and stick with a flat. Ill keep on and on about the negatives of reefer tuggin if ya wish.

Im hooked to a reefer as I type this here in Erie PA bound for upstate NY. Doing a "favor". What a frusterating mess once again dealing with this #### reefer nonsense.

 

@Lepton1 I recall your from Yukon OK everytime im rolling 40 through your home two oh. No homo or nothing just remember.

 

If you want to pull a reefer make sure you are good sleeping in the daytime and have a good alarm clock. Many food DCs do their receiving in the wee hours. It ain't all double cheeseburgers and flip flops.

 

Come down the mountain to McMinnville & talk to Womack Transportation. They run flats & also haul garbage from here to Dayton & back everday. Talk to Brad,he is the owner,real nice guy.

 

I really encourage you to consider getting your Hazmat endorsement. Many good companies require it, and the pay is better.

I run flat to the oil patch, getting paid a percentage of revenue to the truck. A typical run from OKC to Midland/Odessa generates an extra $500 billed to the customer if it is Hazmat, so I get a bit over $100 extra. We run totes, which also requires tanker endorsement.

Get all the endorsements. It makes you more valuable.