Flatbed equipment and rates ?

I thought it was tar paper rolls stacked on the ends.......?

 

Could be, you know more about that plant than I do. On the couple the times I saw felt paper come in like that, the guys had to wrap straps around the top layer like a belt around the waist, and the bottom layer underneath it “to keep them from blowing out”
Hard to imagine rubber roofing would hold up any better.
I feel like that’s a good load for a van trailer.
@Cat sdp big Kenny told me a couple years back that a friend of his is like a shift supervisor or something (?) at that plant off 101 in Brentwood, n that those loads are big fleet specials running at like $1.30 all in.

 

$1.30 into a black hole....... perfect.

 

They load actual shingles 2 pallets high all day long on the multi axle trailers heading up to Michigan at one of the shingle distributors that I frequently load out of in Indiana.

 

Every single one? Really?

I only remember it being 2 or 3 rows in the middle?

 

Maybe it was roofing felt I was hauling?

All I know is it required 8’ tarps and 16 corner boards so I dont haul them anymore.

 

Yall got me kinda glad I can only scale 44k. It cuts out about half of the flatbed market, which oddly enough seems to be the cheapest and heaviest products being moved... lol

 

It was probably tar paper rolls...

 

.....so, you don’t like the heavy stuff because it’s cheap; but want to move heavier than normal bc you think it’ll be nice? More cheap = still cheap.....

 

Lol, seems contradictory doesnt it?
Out west( at least when I was pulling a box) there is very little freight. And what was there, was usually 46-48k, which I couldn't haul.
Now that I can split axles and maybe take one of those 48k loads, it would be beneficial in a dead area.... wouldn't that be better than waiting days for a lighter load?