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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;supersnackbar, post: 11962744, member: 9858&quot;]I hauled glass for a different company, and as long as they&#039;re building buildings, they&#039;ll need glass.&nbsp; The problem is, if the housing bubble bursts, glass freight drops dramatically.&nbsp; With Combined, you&#039;ll do a fair amount of tarping and untarping glass.&nbsp; They have some conestoga and double drop trailers, but a lot of the loads I see are what the company I worked for called double hump man killers.&nbsp; Basically two sets of A-frame racks with totally removable tarps.&nbsp;&nbsp; The glass plant will help you position the tarp when you live load, but it&#039;s on you to pull and fold the tarps at the delivery.&nbsp; And I think Combined has you disassemble the A-frames on those type trailers from time to time to backhaul general freight when things slow down.&nbsp; On their double drop trailers, the tarp stays on the A-frame and you just pull it forward and secure it to the front of the rack so the receiver can unload.&nbsp; Conestoga are much easier, roll the tarp forward, unsecure the load, roll it back and you&#039;re off to the next glass load.&nbsp; It&#039;s more work than tanker, but not as much work as regular flatbed.&nbsp; They&#039;ll train you on the securement(every glass hauling company does it a bit differently, so they all run new hires thru the training class), but it&#039;s not tough.&nbsp; The biggest thing about hauling glass is how you drive...no hard braking, no hard cornering, no hauling arse thru the truckstops who&#039;s parking lot looks like a lunar landscape.&nbsp; Basically drive glass like you would drive an unbaffled tanker and don&#039;t baja thru rough parking lots.&nbsp; Believe it or not, todays screwed up roads don&#039;t cause damage to glass loads like you might think.&nbsp; I&#039;d probably still be hauling glass if my previous employer wouldn&#039;t have been merged with E.W. Wylie, I just didn&#039;t feel like going thru retraining at another glass hauler after the merger, and I couldn&#039;t stand working for Wylie.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as pay, not sure about Combined, but I grossed $80k my 1st year at my old company, and that was 4 1/2 years ago, pay rates have gone up a lot since then.&nbsp; A fair number of my former co-workers that stayed with Wylie topped $100k last year.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing to keep in mind, with glass, it&#039;s not &quot;if&quot; you get cut, it&#039;s &quot;when&quot; you get cut.&nbsp; Keep small tubes of super glue handy, you will get glass cuts.&nbsp; We&#039;re not talking limb removal type cuts, but your hands and forearms will get small cuts once in a while, no matter how much safety gear you have on...super glue is cheaper than new-skin and it works just as good.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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