how much work is involved in flatbed

You've never pulled van or reefer have you?

 

It's winter, closer to spring Bulk should pick up.

Shipper's often treat driver's like the lowest form of humanity at some "dry van" and "refer" warehouses.

Let's put it this way, my husband did both Dry van and Flatbed when I was riding along. I enjoyed the Flatbeding better. The only issue I had ( or would have doing it by my self) is getting the tarp's ON the deck, without help. I can carry them, but as the deck is chin level to me, I found it very hard to lift them that high. Could I do it? Well yes, At lot of places will lift them with a fork-lift anyway. btw, my husband had no issues lifting the tarp's.

Melton was a pretty good company when my husband worked for them. Some people don't like the work envolved flat bedding and quit or they are expanding again, two reason's that they could be on a hiring spree. They call him at least once a month, but he like's sleeping w/o a refer as a neighbor.

 

Flatbed work is not hard enough to keep some of these fellas from getting fat!

i don't like sleeping beside a reefer myself, or an APU for that matter. doesn't bother me a bit when it quits running.
not quite sure how sleeping in an idling truck makes you look arrogant. But hey if that's what you think so be it. Probably work for one of those big companies that won't let you idle. I know if I stayed out as much as some I would probably buy an APU but if I had one it would die of old age or from not being used long before it payed for itself.

And if I had to work for what some of these guys loading our trucks make I would probably walk around miserable all day also. I try to always be cheerful ( as much as an old Jarhead can be anyway) if they want to be miserable screw em. They are nobody to me.

 

Why are you that bad of a driver?

 

Cause some of them are rather noisy, specially when you have your side window's open and the "door" window's cracked, so that you don't have to run the APU or Idle.

And because it never failed, we could be the only truck in the far back of a dirt parking lot ( with cement up front) and some J.A. with a noisy refer unit would park right beside us. <shrug>

 

He was likely parking back there so as not to annoy all the other drivers .