Is flatbed seasonal?

Typically spring to fall is the busy season, this year is way down, not near as busy as it should be. Winter is slow(er), but there's always something to move.

 

Hell no. It's year round.

Enjoy the sunshine, the rain, the ice and the leaves.

Plus tornados, hurricanes, trop systems that flood I 10 to 10 feet. For a week.

Cowhides that re covered in flies in the heat of the summer... or the pipe that are frozen together in chicago after you been splashed near the lakes in winter. A hammer aint gonna do a #### thing to break anything loose.

Ive done flat in all weather. My first flat was literally a winter mountain wonderland. up a 14% 3 mile grade to the reicever which was a lumber supply store each morning at 8 am after fighting ice from near DC all the way up to Altoona area in PA off the Bedford exit off the pike.

Then creep back down flat empty scared to death like a drunk mountain goat. No coice here.

Finally spring is sprung. Howling 40 mph steady sustained that boost to 60 mph gusts that threaten to strip the canvas sheet and vanish it over the hill and gone. Those things like 20 feet by freaking 40 feet weighing as much as you do rolled up. Wind is your enemy here.

I can go on and on and on. But why bother. Ive either scared you or motivated you to get in there.

 

I'm no skateboarder, but this last winter I had never seen so many empty skateboards packing all the truck stops. For the better part of December through February a good 1/3 of all parking spaces I saw were empty flatbeds.
I'd like to know as well, I've thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a skate board to use along with a van.

 

The economy is hurting a little bit.

I should take a trip down to CAT in north little rock near the Petro there off 40 and see how many cat parts are coming and going on decks.

Obama just did a executive order making a hostile Tarriff against imports of chinese cheap steel to make them just as expensive as our domestic steel, leaving the chinese out of the money in export. PResto, not too many deck loads running about at the moment.

Inranet is one of the largest flatbed outfits on wall street, they are reponsible for approximately 300 to 400,000 flatbed loads each year easily a billion dollars in business. They are better known as EcK Miller out of Rockport Indiana.

 

Not seasonal, but there is a bit less work in the winter (northern winter). Year round work.

 

Keep making it sound so easy & all the wimps will want to do it!

 

One can generally expect a little slowdown from about Thanksgiving to Valentines Day.
We didn't seem to have too much this past year. I've been busier most weeks than I want to be.

 

There's two seasons. Tarp everything season and tarp almost everything season.

 

The commodities are seasonal.

That said, this past winter/spring has been brutal to anyone who doesn't have regular customers. I heard stories from some OTR guys up here that they were stuck in the Southeast US for over a week a few months ago looking for freight.