Diary of a current Swift flatbed driver

Pulled the cabinet out and put the cooler in its place. Good call schmud.

 

Anyone??...........

 

All of the flatbed trucks I have seen were freightliner columbias, so I am going to GUESS that they run DD15 engines with an eaton-fuller 9 speed.

 

so, updates as promised.



chain link fence under that. Sorry didn't get any pics before it was tarped.



chassis going to MI.

 

a really big juicer



That's all I got for now, the rest schmud has already done or I didn't get any pictures!

 

That used to always irritate the piss out of me. The tandem axle stepdecks were supposed to be relegated to the daycab drivers who ran bus chassis from Freightliner Custom Chassis in Gaffney to Thomas Built Buses in High Point, but, more often than not, they'd either insist on taking the newer stepdecks (to what end, I'll never know) or else those dolts at FCC wouldn't pay any mind to which trailers they loaded the bus chassis onto, so an OTR driver would run chassis up to wherever... Elkhart IN, Wakarusa IN, Niles MI, Sturgis MI, Brantford ON, etc., etc. (it wasn't so much of a problem if you went to Forest City or Charles City - at least, not immediately afterwards), then Swift would want to send you back as maxed out as you can get with a steel coil (usually picking up either at US Steel in Gary or I/N Tek Kote in New Carlisle and going to All Metals in Spartanburg) so that they could send you right back to Gaffney.

Niles or Sturgis?

 

haha yup, I've done more coils on sd's than I have with a flatbed, usually with those wheel wells right where you wanted to put the horseshoe chains too.

Those chassis went to Sturgis. After that though I got a load of wood barriers going to CA which I took in a heartbeat of course.

 

I've taken chassis to CA.... don't remember the customer offhand. For a while, they had a pretty sweet run going from Terminal Island to Goose Creek, SC... mostly military five ton trucks coming in from Korea.
That's one luxury I had with Swift which I don't have now... it was of no concern to me what a load paid to the truck. I got paid the same for high value loads as I did for cheap loads. Much different story now.