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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;technoroom, post: 4393122, member: 100208&quot;]^ ^ This was my experience with them about a year ago. As I approached my one-year anniversary, my miles were getting lower and lower -- it was about 2,000 miles a week at the end. And a fair portion of those miles were starting to be curtainside loads, which (at the time, likely still do) pay $0.02 less per mile than flatbed loads. (In fairness to Roehl, they were trying to keep me running, even if it meant curtainside, but it did illustrate that they were having trouble booking enough flatbed volume at the time.) </p><p><br /></p><p>Trying to slide the tandems on their older curtainside trailers during the winter is a whole lotta fun -- the slider mechanisms are usually rusty and worn-out and don&#039;t slide well even in the best conditions on dry, clear pavement. Trying to slide them on a parking lot covered in packed snow and ice was an exercise in frustration, as the wheels would just slide on the snow/ice rather than the tandem sliding under the trailer. I recall spending an entire afternoon one day last January burning up my 14-hour clock messing around with that, trying to get the load legal. Eventually had to pile some of my load chains in front of and behind the tires on the rear wheels, and even then the tires would try and skate up and over the piles of chains. Fun times.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did not have the opportunity to pull a gooseneck (RGN) load during the year I was there. I got the impression that you don&#039;t get to do those unless you&#039;ve more experience. I did pull a couple oversize loads though, and a good number of stepdeck loads. (An ordinary non-oversize stepdeck load pays the same per mile as a traditional flatbed load.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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