Do Flat Beds Have Loading Docks??

Bull Moose Tube in Gerald MO is like that. It’s like a nature anomaly. No matter what time of the day, the sun is always blinding you, or it’s raining and you can’t see anything out of your mirrors.

 

95% of loading will never involve you backing up. The other 5% will be some random near impossible back. Usually out onto the street when you find out from the loader that you aren’t allowed to enter until you untarp on the street in the middle of rush hour traffic

 

That looks like fun to get into

 

Indeed yes.

Beautiful interior docks under 250 ton cranes plopping gigantic coil onto center line.

Mind the tracks under your wheels as they load rail cars now and then too.

Now getting the spread axle into a dock, that's a right pretty move when done right in one.

I once was near McLean outside on the laydown pad loading billets when a storm with thunder and lightning showed up. Nothing on the load or truck except chain conducted electricity anyhow that much. Two hours of securement. I was actually the greatest conductor around as far as cloud to ground strikes were concerned. Ive been hit 4 times or nearly so in my life time. Usually when it goes into the ground or strikes a object or tree within say 20 yards. Electrifying I say. The last one was bad. Took out two people next to me. They lived. But they wont be chasing wife for a few days.

Check off 5 beach towels bigger and taller than you are in the sleeper supply box. You will need all of them after something like that.

 

I don't know where you load or what you haul, but loading for me is 95% backing in and about 60% backing in for unloading. This one is pull in and back out!

 

The only docks I ever had to back into involved metal products mostly.

 

Always stay hooked to the same deck. Still gotta bump docks at some receivers. Got customers who don't have overhead cranes.

 

I dunno about easier or harder, each trailer has it's own tricks.

I will say if you learn how to back a spread axle proficiency, dry box will hold no fears for you.

 

Looks like atlas roofing in Franklin Ohio. Fun to get in there with a 53' Conestoga !