The Truckers’ Report flatbed Hall of Shame.

30,000 pound Bone--

 

I was offloaded last week with a Bone with a capacity of a tad over 50 tons. Pretty impressive machine, requiring a climb up a ladder to get to the cab.

 

Round my parts those are called a "load-all" But I knew what was meant by the term "Pettibone".

 

Around here they call them a Lull, regardless of brand. Kinda like calling all locking pliers Vice Grips regardless of who makes them I guess.

 

We call them lull’s too

 

And channel locks are channel locks. And a coke is any soda

 

Remember a couple years ago this came up and someone said “Zoom Boom”? I been trying that out at job sites for fun; every time but one I got the same reaction
“The #### is a zoom boom??”
The one exception the guy just stood there looking at me for an uncomfortable amount of time, said oh... and walked away to ask his boss lol

 

We used the term grade-all

 

Interesting. Round my way a gradall is always one of these:

 

The term telehandler is what I am used to hearing these telescopic all terrain forklifts called. Being from the west coast I never heard of regular forklifts being called Hi/Lo until I got to the mid west. Every region has different names for equipment of all kinds.