Diary of a current Swift flatbed driver

I found a way to carry v boards legally on my truck took some creative thought!!!
i carry alot of stuff, trying to keep enough of everything to do any load given.

 

t-call is when i drop a load off at a terminal to be repowered or delivered by another driver later on. I do this quite frequently in Laredo because i cannot drive in Mexico. Or if i pick up a load and it doesn't deliver for a while so you drop it off at a terminal near its final.
b-service is the 35,000mi service. Oil change, grease points if the can reach them, usually they get most of em, some grease on the 5th wheel.

 

Yeah i do. But i don't keep a trailer long enough to keep stuff stored on it. so i keep everything on my truck. When you go through 3-4 trailers a week, it gets kinda old dragging a bunch of wood around.

 

Ok here is the update. I emptied out on the 30th of december. Spent the rest of the 30th -1st in Wilmington terminal. Relocated to fontana for a shower. Sat in fontana till the 4th, got a load of lumber to run up to Salt Lake City deliver it tommorrow am. Currently sitting at the old flying j in Payson Utah. I like it its closed and quite!! Ill take some pictures of this lumber load tommorrow am. This is a runner up for one of the ugliest lumber loads ever!!
Forklift guy tried stacking me almost 15 feet high .....What a trip.