Flatbed Team Loads

There is not a lot of flatbed work that requires teams. If you find a flatbed load requiring a team, you will probably get a nice premium because there are not a lot of flatbed teams out there. They will be few and far between. Rates for long loads are also not as great as rates for 0-700 miles. Lots of the bigger companies like long loads because they think they create better utilization. If you are relying on load boards, I would come up with a different business plan. The long loads on load boards seem to pay even worse.

 

LS has quite a few flatbed teams loads actually. Run CA to the east-coast and back from what I've seen and #### good rates too for expedited runs. Mainly hauling containers, so I'd suggest using a stepdeck with can-locks. Might not sound too interesting, but the rates are usually $3+ mile.... If I could trust someone else to drive while I slept, I'd consider it, but I have control issues and don;t trust anyone but my father to drive me down the road.

 

i don't get a nice premium for driving team loads.

the nice thing about team. is two people can tarp and untarp at the snap of a finger. two people are really nice to have in the southern heat.
another nice thing is that could haul almost twice the loads during the week.

if i were to do team. it would have to be lady though. lots of guys are pigs and abusive on the equipment. and i've been down that road before. won't do it again.

 

hah good luck getting a good lookin woman snowwy

 

My wife and I run a team flatbed and do pretty good with it.The truck doesn't always have a "hot team load" on it but we just fill in with regular loads. Nothing wrong with loading a 1400 mile load and delivering the next day.

 

3.00 a mile out of California on containers ? Are you sure about that I was with mercer and we never saw any 3 dollar a mile containers.

 

I was wondering about that rate myself.

 

Yep, everytime I've been in Los Angeles there are a few container, high value loads going to NJ paying over $3 mile to the truck. They are team only runs... on the LS board every week.

 

Then those loads are about $2.25 in the real world.$3.00 in Landstar world.