I wanna skateboard

I'm very familiar with that particular J...they used to have that good Patriot House restaurant in there. I read somewhere that they're supposedly putting a Golden Corral in there. (The only other one I know of in a truck stop is the J down in Ruther Glen VA.)

 

If you don't have to pay out CHILD SUPPORT...then yes. (LOL...I was trying not to say that...but that was my big weekly pre-tax deduction.)

That said, if consistent $ is what's most important to you, you may do well to stay where you are. Not saying you won't make consistent $ with TMC; it just may not be as consistently good as Sysco's. A lot of that can be due to freight rates...a larger part is the winter weather, which in the flatbed business can hamstring you quick if you get caught out at the wrong time.

That's something else you may want to consider...how much of the elements you're willing to deal with. Few things are more fun than trying to tarp loads outside in the wind and/or snow...or trying to roll up frozen tarps after they've been sitting on a load all night. (Haha...part of the flatbed life.) If you're more comfortable and if it's easier for you to just close the door and go without getting all sweaty and such--or frozen in the winter--then you may want to stick to what you're doing now. (I know some FS distributors and LTLs have their drivers load/unload their own trailers, so there's some physicality there. But it's one thing to wheel cases down a ramp on a dolly; it's something else slinging straps, chains, tarps, climbing up and down loads to set tarps, fix straps and chains, set edge protector without a PVC pole--all that kind of good stuff. It can be fun; just the same, it can be brutal at times.)

I'm just trying to provide a balanced perspective. I won't sit here and say you'll get rich with TMC, or starve to eat, either. Many guts flaunt their pay figures upfront (as do the majority of trucking companies when trying to recruit drivers); far fewer bother to delve deep into (& share the truth of) what really goes into all that.

 

builders no longer takes new drivers, must have 3 months exp.

 

You need to make a PVC pole. Use 1" or 3/4" min.

 

Ha...I think I had four or five of those things at one point. (Two of them I got from the folks at LaFarge, now Continental, at Silver Grove KY.)

That said, those poles don't reach the top of everything.... (particularly when you're a little less than average height, like me. Ha.)

 

The one I made would extend to reach 13'6. Ii,m 6'1.

 

And I'm barely 5' 8"...you got nearly half a foot's reach on me, haha.

(But that's when one gets inventive with stuff, like draining the dump valve and dropping the tractor suspension--which became a habit of mine with those drywall loads...especially the 5-Hugh 5x12 "billboards" out of Cumberland City TN. "Ugh" didn't begin to describe it...haha.)