Commonly shipped items

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I'd have to say I see more lumber and coil steel in this part of the country more than anything else.

 

A lot of steel, roofing products, pipe, lumber, aluminum, siding, concrete.
Most all building materials are loaded on open decks because it can be unloaded at job sites with a single forklift.

 

@student1989 i haul a lot of lumber going from mills to finial finishing. Steel from large producers to small independent shops that turn them into products or parts for a finished product. I haul ALOT of drilling pipe for the oil and gas industry in the northeast. Building material such as brick to places like Home Depot or mom and pop stone outfits. In the winter I haul a lot of wood pellets going from the mill to stores for resale. More or less the thing with flat beds is this, if you can imagine it on a flat bed then it goes on a flat bed. Boats, planes, cars, trailers, machinery, wood, steel, aluminum, tomatoes, onions, watermelons, statues, hell even live stock I've seen before. A flat bed is just a platform, with a little elbow grease and creativity we can and do move the world on these things

 

If you write "EVERYTHING", it's going to be a dull report.

Try this instead
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...t-flatbed-load-photos-here-v2-0.242058/unread

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I haul cattle hides from Nebraska to Laredo TX that get exported into Mexico , then I haul steel out of Laredo back into the Midwest ...also haul railroad track and locomotive parts .

 

When you want to think about what gets shipped by flatbed, it's generally stuff that can't be shipped in a van or is impractical to ship that way.

Some items, like lumber, are too long. 12 foot lumber can't fit sideways in a trailer, and the way it is packaged it's really impractical to pick it up longways, so it is much more practical on a flat bed. As things get even longer, this gets even more important. You aren't going to be loading or unloading 50 foot beams or poles in and out of a van trailer without some very specialized equipment, using a flatbed requires nothing more than a forklift big enough to lift it.

Another issue is weight. A large 45000 pound steel coil requires a crane or a very large forklift to lift it. The crane requires overhead access, so the van is out, and the forklift large enough to lift that kind of load won't be able to drive into a van trailer.

Also related to weight, in general heavy items need special securement. Coils placed inside of a van would require securement that is not practical in a van trailer. Flatbed trailers are designed with a number of securement points to attach chains and straps to secure heavy loads.

Also, flatbeds allow loads to be sideloaded, which means that a forklift can unload them from the side rather than driving into the trailer, removing the need for a ramp or dock. So if you are having, say, bags of stucco delivered to a jobsite, a flatbed is the practical option since you won't have a dock on the jobsite.


Look at the trucks on the road and you will see a lot of stuff on flatbeds. Some of it is easy to see. Power poles, lumber, beams, shingles, etc, you will see a lot. You will see equipment being hauled on specialized flatbeds like dropdecks and lowboys. You will see a lot of stuff that is covered in tarps so you can't see what it is. A lot of this may be stuff like drywall, sometimes lumber, and a lot will be steel products, plates, coils, beams. Glass is often hauled on racks on flatbeds.

 

Steel and lumber, by far, in terms of raw commodities.

 

Hope this makes your report more interesting by adding some official trucker lingo in it...

Toothpicks = Hauling Lumber
Sailboat Fuel = Air or hauling nothing
Monkey Pickles = Hauling Green Bananas
Skateboard = Flatbed Trailer
Parking Lot = Hauling Cars
Wiggle Wagon = Pulling 2 or more Trailers
Bed Bugger = Hauling Furniture,... moving trucks
Pond Skipper or Running Water = Hauling Pools

Bobtail N' Boogie on that report!!! Gud Luck!

 

A load of roofing materials including haz-mat, a load of lumber, a four-wheel-drive industrial mowing machine, a huge table saw and a moffitt. A load of roof shingles. 4 tractor tires on rims, a grain drill, two small tractors and a little zero-turn mower all for 4928 miles in the last two weeks. Next week; apple bins, two round balers, a tractor and a forklift and whatever else I can fit on 53 ft of stepdeck. Short answer to "what do you haul?", anything that fits on the trailer, and some things that don't!