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Flatbed driver looking for a change.

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Stone Dude, Jul 2, 2018.

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  1. Jul 2, 2018 #1
    Stone Dude

    Stone Dude Light Load Member

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    I've been with Maverick for going on 2 years now, and I've had mostly good experiences with them, but I'm reaching the point where I'm tired of flatbed. Tired of the 8' lumber tarps, both having to carry them to the top of a mixed Home Depot load to having to roll them up. Tired of picking up loads that are literally the customer throwing more and more product on my deck until they fill the trailer and then telling me to pull over to that gravel lot and figure out how to strap it down. Oh, and make sure it's tarped too. Maverick has a reefer division that I'd love to transfer over too, but sadly the hiring area for that is smaller than the flatbed hiring area and I live outside it. So if I want something other than flatbed I'm gonna have to move along.

    So now I'm left wondering what else is out there? I've got 21 months here with no incidents so I'm pretty sure I could get hired by a lot of places.I could go pull a reefer for Prime or some other mega, but I imagine there have to be better gigs than that out there, but I don't know where to look. Anyone got any advice on how to start looking?
     
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  3. Jul 2, 2018 #2
    Chinatown

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    Pull tankers for W.W. Transport.
    W.W. TRANSPORT INC.
    Corporate Office
    701 E. Mt. Pleasant Street
    West Burlington, IA 52655
    This company also has flatbed, heavy haul, reefers, tankers, end dumps.
     
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  4. Jul 2, 2018 #3
    Stone Dude

    Stone Dude Light Load Member

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    Hmmm... have to check them out. Thanks.
     
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  5. Jul 2, 2018 #4
    Chinatown

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    Liquid Trucking
    Omaha,NE
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  7. Jul 2, 2018 #5
    STexan

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    What's you're preferred driving style and home time needs and preferences? You like to run and gun, running nearly "max miles" every week, or do you like to loaf around much of the time? Doing flatbed so long, you may not have sufficient "work ethic" to meet stringent reefer appointments, typically on both ends, trip after trip. Can/will you drive 1,900 miles in 3 full days in a 65 mph truck?
     
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  8. Jul 2, 2018 #6
    IluvCATS

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    F93D8F5F-E13E-4340-8872-838CDE640371.jpeg Ivan’s super fast delivery service.
     
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  9. Jul 2, 2018 #7
    already gone

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    This is an excellent point, and one reason i prefer flatbed/steel hauling. Id rather put some sweat into the load and drive 250 miles, 600 miles at a time drives me nuts, i have to get out and move around.

    I learned this the hard way, after years of listening to other people's ideas of what a good job is.

    Op, where is your location?
     
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  10. Jul 2, 2018 #8
    w.h.o

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    What about Glass division? If you live near Dewitt, you can land a ded gig and don't have to tarp beside roll tarps. I believe it's a regional thing.
     
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  11. Jul 2, 2018 #9
    Oldironfan

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    I saw one of the nicest tanker truck combo I've ever saw last night. The name was.
    High pressure transport. Like the truck and trailer just came from the showroom. Bad new is. Anhydrous outfit.
     
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  12. Jul 2, 2018 #10
    Espressolane

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    Going so fast, it’s going to take three days for the trailer to catch up.
     
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