Is Roehl ever going to get any new equipment?

Flatbed is great this time of year, plenty of work, warm sunny days. Just wait til January and Feburary in the Twin Cities, then you will wish you had never seen a flat bed. It is good work, but it does have a real downside, and with Roehl it seems almost everything has to be tarped.

 

If you want to get into shape go work for US Express delivering Dollar General, or something like that. Or you could try just walking everyday when you get parked, and eating better...

 

I have been a flatbedder forever too. I enjoy the work, just not the cold. There is only so much that you can put on to stay warm, and still be able to move. The biggest problem I usually had was getting tarps folded small enough to get them back in the boxes. Other than that just have a good broom and shovel so you can clean your tarps and trailer off, and always carry some kind of ice melt in the winter to put on your deck before you load. I always carried a couple of extra gallons of water, that way if I got really dirty and the weather was okay, I could clean up a bit before I got back in the truck. Just my two cents...