Diary of a current Swift flatbed driver

time for some more pictures and then for this weekends saga.....


heres some pipe load i took from washington to idaho

 

gotta love it tarp a load thats been sitting in the rain for a week, wet metal sure does slide, one lift slid off the forklift and the banding broke and pipe went everywere. picked up a load of lumber, had to waste all day getting the load....

 

gross weight 95,960lbs first weigh.....not to bad only 16,000lbs over gross

 

So here is my day today....
first off i pinched my little guy in my zipper this morning, then dropped off the pipe.
Got to the lumber place waited around 3hrs to get loaded. fInnaly got in the lumber yard in idaho and the forklift guy loaded me. He was like that should do you...Then the office lady came out and told him to put 6 more bundles on my truck, she said look at all the room on that truck still. I told her "ma'mam theirs room but ill be over weight if you keep putting lumber on my truck. Shes said "you dont have scales on your truck so how do you know"? I told her load what you want i'll just be back in 15 minutes for you to take a bunch off.... My mudflaps usually dont drag on the ground.
The forklift guy said your going to be way over, i told him i know, so i went and got re weighed and came in at 95,960lbs gross
The forklift guy took ten bundles off broke some banding holding it together, and the way i went to get re weighed...came in this time at 73,460lbs.

went down the road saw some lumber walking out, fixed that, went down the road about 5 minutes lumber bouncing off of the pavement, pulled over tarped the load even though it wasnt supposed to be(i'm not hurting, damaging, or killing someone if i can spend a 1/2 hour or so to cover the load). wind picks up I fall off of the trailer, get the load tarped, get on down the road cigarette cherry falls inbetween my sock and boot and burns me pretty good. And the icing on the cake this is my weekend load. I picked up today(thursday) deliver monday in Denver,Co total miles 880 miles so they beat last weekend thursday-tuesday of 1500.
On the bright side my friends driving to denver right now so I'm going to chill at his sisters drink beer watch the broncos game and maybe get a good long jog in at the mile high city.....


side note the forklift guy was really cool, and hopefully they start listening to him from now on

 

Those are my lumber tarps i just fold em really small

 

nope especially when i drew blood