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I was told there would be no backing in flatbed. (tuesday version)


It's worse than you think


I'm standing on the opposite sidewalk. zero room. (same place I was a week ago)

I actually did it in one shot this time. No, i could never do it again, it was clearly total luck.


I was told there was no backing in flatbed, wednesday version. Some multi-million dollar house in a ski town being built at 9000 feet. You can imagine the roads and this driveway and you'd be right.

 

No backing with flatbeds, I have heard that saying for years, and wondered what a guy should call some of the obstacle courses a guy has to back a 1/4 mile through at times. lol

 

Hey, the crane could get there. What's the problem?

 

I know it's all tongue in cheek

I mean I've done food service, delivering in fast food parking lots in the middle of college campuses with a 48' and a sleeper and it's NOTHING compared to what I've done backing in a flatbed.

I really wonder where they came up with that saying.

 

A couple of years ago a small contractor that I knew when he was just a lowly truck driver called and ask if I could drive for him for a one day deal. I didn't want to and told him a guy that could and needed to, but he said he really needed someone that he knew could back up and would not be comfortable with someone he didn't know.
Now we are talking about a belly dump hauling asphalt, how much backing and how complicated can it be, well I got a lesson. lol
They were paving a twisty winding narrow bike trail, yep he needed someone who could back up alright. lol

 

It is a bit maddening. I dont miss the jobsite deliverys running drywall. Ok,now turn down this street where you going to jump the curb all the way over from the other side of the road. Turn here here and here. Try to squeeze past the idiot thats double parked and now past all our work crew that is likewise parked on the street, nose into this cul-de-sac. Now have fun backing out of this entire mess. (Wait you didnt bring a forklift?) "No" an hour and a half later it turned out I was delivering straight too the site for FBM a (certainteed, somehow failed to mention this) they showed up 3hours late as it turns out. And then another driver pulled in behind me and that poor guy had to back out before i could.

But yeah, how the rumor got started that flatbeds dont know what reverse is,,, id like to know.


Though minor perk of drywall, getting to block Santa Monica blvd for the short amount of time I had to back onto it out of something they were building down there. Heres 30 seconds of revenge SoCal.

 

Well guys, I happen to know for a fact that flatbeds do not have to back up, and here is why I know. Several years ago the scalehouse shut down a truck (junk) and told me I had to do 12 hours of just the welding part on the trailer before he could leave. lol

They did escort him to the shop and I told him to back it in, he pulled up till one steer was off in the ditch and the bumper was against a light pole, then in a minute came walking back, and told me he had a problem. He had somehow let a little matter slip his mind, reverse was out in his transmission. I ask, how he could possibly be running cross country without reverse and even worse, how could you forget. I then picked up the back of the flat with the wrecker to move it over straight, and the tandems stayed on the ground, held in place by gravity and brake lines. lol

 

Thats almost medal worthy. Im going through my head now, last time I think was about 4 months ago, that I didn't have too touch R.

 

There was 2 guys in this truck, and right off the bat one ask me if he could trade me something for a pack of smokes. I ask what is this about trade, and he told me they didn't have a dime between them. lol I ask how they expected to pay for repairs, and got the old I don't know. lol
We then had a powwow, and come to find out the passenger owned the motorcycle that was loaded on the flat, and had bought diesel with what ever money he had for a ride to Texas, the trailer belonged to a small carrier the driver was leased to in East Tx, the junk cabover was his. I wound up trading the motorcycle for enough work to get the truck legal and they left the trailer.
Several months the company called and were sending someone to pick up the trailer and wanted me to load it. They sent a 30 foot gooseneck to load an old 45 foot hobbs float on. lol No it did not fit. lol

 

You mean like a hotshot gooseneck? I would have payed for tickets to that event.