Is there much more sitting around flatbed

Hey i have a question i stay in Texas ima be one day late renewing my medical card Would it affect my license?

 

Flatbed (Specifically covered wagon) isnt so much the sitting. It's the detail work that must be done that takes a certain amount of routine, time and attention to making it a good job well done. I never have a sloppy trailer or a crappy load if I can help it. (Ive actually had a couple which were... outright gambles and two turned into proper damage claims...)

Flatbedding any other way such as loaded at Lowes Hagerstown Railroad transload facility knowing you will be up above Fishertown off PA 56 for delivery near Altoona at exactly 8 am next morning makes for a nice start to a day that will involve potentially three or more loads, tarp secured and delivered and cleanup. Shingles are the easist. Roofing rolls are not. (I hate these to this day.. they flop so much...)

You might sit now and then but when you consider the differences between the current Log HOS requirments with that 34 hour reset versus none of that in my time, I would imagine you will be sitting more.

 

Make your own thread.

I'll answer it. Renew it asap do not be driving a commercial vehicle under a load or dispatched empty until that card is renewed.

Next time make a thread on these forums in the appropriate section, you will get lots of answers rather than barging in and hijacking a topic.

 

Sorry bro is my first time using this i dont know how to use it but Would it affect my license bro??

 

This is why I don't say I'm a truck driver. I'm a petroleum infrastructure technician.

 

I've noticed a lot more of those drivers are getting to be the ones holding up lines. I haven

I was Bull*****ing some half drunk college boy over New Years. I told him I was a Freight Transportation Specialist. Then he asked "where did you get your degree?". I told him Princeton University the look on his drunk face was priceless.

 

I was given a notification from my home state warning me under the current US regs, if my DOT card expired, my CDL would instantly revert to a Class D.

Not meaning to sound like a prick, okay? You can get your medical card renewed ANYWHERE. Why on earth would you allow it to expire? That would be foolish. To get your CDL reinstated will require you to go back to your home state DMV and play musical chairs and pay fees, fill out another application for another license...etc. You probably wont have to take the CDL tests anymore BUT, it's a big pain regardless.

 

Lots of truth here. Most tanker loads, and that all I pull, don't wait around. Now, on the other hand, sometimes it is hard to get loaded if you are away from the major complexes but most of these tanker companies have all that built into the rate and you rarely end up sitting.

 

I have pulled flat's, tank's and van's and I have had horrible wait times pulling all three. I agree 100% with the sentiment that the dispatcher is a big part of why trucks sit,but another factor is also the type of freight being hauled. Lumber,shingles,sheetrock and other high volume commodities where they are loading 50-100 trucks a day tend to lead to some pretty horrendous waits. Same thing with food grade tanks.(I have pulled into a juice bottler loaded and there be 30+ trucks ahead of me waiting to offload.............36 hours later..........pulling a van now,direct contract for a feed mill and my longest wait has been maybe 3 hours in the 2 years I have been here. When you got something they want/need those waits drop exponentially.

 

I've been pulling flat for 14 years.
There is some waiting at some customers that seem to want to drag their backsides.
Yet you get a fair amount of sitting with any type of trucking.
Flatbed is definitely the way to go if you feel like actually and honestly earning your pay check.
On the other hand, you could just sit on your backside, open a set of doors, and be happy.
All depends on what you expect.
Personally, I wouldn't do anything but flatbed.
Everything in America starts on a flatbed.
Vans and reefers haul predominantly finished freight ready for sale.
But the plants, the factories, the manufactures that make finished products for vans and reefers, all started with materials brought in on open deck trailers.
They were all built off of flatbeds.
So next time y'all want to bad mouth a flatbedder, just remember, he might be hauling the lumber, the aluminum, the copper, the steel, etc, that's going to build that plant or that product for you to haul.