Do all flatbed companies have a tough guy chip on their shoulders?

Ehhh. I have to disagree with you. I became an owner of with zero flatbed experience. I have 15 yes driving experience. But I taught myself off YouTube and Google AND asking other drivers there thoughts on my loads and tarp jobs. Every single one took the time to talk to me and give me pointers

 

"Sticks and bricks"?

 

Never noticed it but I'm always giving them things I find on lease roads I can't use like binders

 

Those who haul general flatbed freight, typically with a skateboard (normal flatbed.)

Lots of lumber and building materials in most general flatbed loads, so you usually call em "bricks and sticks."

Because theres alot more to flatbed/open deck than just general freight, though most everyone pulling anything open deck is considered a flatbedder in most circles.

It just helps those of us in the industry to put a post it note answer on what type of freight you really do haul.

 

ALL of my flatbed companies AND the PEOPLE in them, ESPECIALLY THE SUITS... are hard as nails. They eat neutronium for breakfast and break marines into blubbering crying weeping sanitarium patients by dinner.

And while these company suits slumber in blissful ancitipation of tomorrows profits, TOUGH Flatbed truckers roll through the night, tossing coils onto decks and everything else off with bare hands.

We don't EAT. Its the coils cutting into the drivers that provides the iron nutrition to keep us going strong. No anemic crybabies here. HA..

And the Office Drones, Gumchewing smacking chain smoaking broads who refuse to take any talk back or sass shuffling mountains of paperwork until they find the one you screwed up on. Then you go back and do it all over again to be done right.

HA....

Flatbed. Motivating. Children play games of teeter totter. When they have a pair of balls big enough then they graduate to flatbed.

 

That was epic!

 

Stick and brick haulers
Steel haulers
The LTL guys
Specialized guys, who haul everything on planet earth.
Heavy haul, specialize in all things huge and ugly.
All under “flatbed.”

 

Functionally retarded or on parole are their two main prerequisites.

 

There's all different kinds of toughness, intellectual, psychological, physical, spiritual, it all adds up.

Flat bedders are sissies, deck haulers are tough.
A deck hauler doesn't care what kind of trailer it is, flatbed, step deck, drop deck, double drop, combine trailer, low bed, specialty trailers, A train, B train, heavy haul, meat railer, a deck hauler does it all.

If you've never tarped a load in -50º weather you don't rate on the tough scale.
Truckers accumulate points as they gain experience, the more points you gain, the more experience(s) you have, the tougher you become.

 

Oh yes -50 is really dangerous. Expose skin if at all wet will stick to metal and there you are. Stuck.