Heavy equitpment or machinery only ??

I drive for ATS.
They pull more than heavy equipment. They pull everything. They also tarp. I dont like tarping and so I dont do it unless they pay me what I want...which normally works out to be 4 times a year putting rags on a load. Sure, they move stuff like John Deere and CASE, but they do lots more. Pipe racks, boilers, tanks, construction equipment, nuke loads, crane parts, structural steel, pipe, oilfield stuff...whatever.

I've pulled the big stainless brewing tanks for beer pubs, elevators for mine shafts, buildings, a bridge (the road part was diamond plate and 14 feet wide and over 100 feet long), an electronic cotton gin, a service platform for fighter planes, (the high end stuff is going to have to be tarped), stuff that requies an armed co-pilot, military convoy (Dear God, it takes forever) an observation room (it looked like a lab room cut out of a hospital), specialized rail cars for this gigantic thing that was boring a tunnel underground underneath Philadelphia, and a gigantic thing that looked like a hand with 5 big augers for fingers.

Go into the scale and the scalemaster always asks, "What the heck is that thing?" I look at the BOL and say, "It's a M43Q8432131 Version II." Then he ask, "What does it do?" I have no earthly idea. It looks like the giant hand of some sort of robot that wants to drill 5 big holes at a time.

ATS will put you to work and let you work your way up, but if you strictly want to pull machinery, you'd better bring your own rig.

 

Can I ask why no Tarping is the main selling point?

 

Can I say "lazy"

 

those of us that do the heavy haul for the most part have all paid our dues. suck it up buttercup pay your dues the company i work for has you pull a flat and or step for the first year you are with the company. the fact that you don't want to tarp is a red flag for many companys. to me it means you are lazy and not a good self starter. You don't care enough about the load to take care of ALL the little things. pulling O/D loads is not for everyone. we have several drivers that don't want to mess with it.I have tarped O/D loads.start on the ground floor like the rest of us. learn to rig,tie down learn to load odd shapes and odd weights for a year or more. If you don't understand the simple loads then you have no business in front of an O/D load. Remember we ALL pay for our learning some how

 

Call Kaiser in Janesville

 

Lol he said no tarping not i want to tarp every single friggin load!

 

For what, like 50.00.

 

Here is the load for him

 

You ruined it!! LoL but you know you do it enough you learn tricks and it's not soooo bad ive done worse things

 

JK Hackl tarps just about every load.... loaded next to one of their guys today. He had old truck engines on going to Calexico and his company told him he had to tarp them, not the shipper. These were old engines that were blown up and missing half the parts. He said that there isn't much they don't make them tarp