Im thinking 140/98 is the DOT limit for home high it sould be. Me being an former EMT 136/88 is not to bad considering you age and wieght. i know for a fact you come to me 160/99 your hypertinsive and were geting you fluids and med to bring it down and a trip to ER of your chocie lol. im a ex flatbedder my self from 09, coming back to swift on tuesday the 5th. PS- you can just sit for a while and do some steady breathing and slow you heart rate and bring your b/p down. just incase your a big guy with little daliy excersize Good luck.
Well here we are back in Gary IN. There was no Flatbed work that would get us west, and nothing that didn't have us sitting until Monday. Vans had a run up to Minneapolis so we took that. Holy Crap did the windshield get covered in Mosquitoes. Shifting is getting better, but starts sucking when I get tired. I have been doing all the backing, and so far I'm sucking at it. The angle back is nothing but trouble. I did a blind back this morning in WI and I nailed it nicely. Now my trainer is wondering what is wrong with me. Had a funny thing happen to me in Minneapolis this morning. I called a good friend of mine to tell him I was finally in the same time zone as him. It was early and I had woke him up. He has been working in western N. Dakota for a few months now. I tell him I'm in Minneapolis. I can here his thinking stalling. He goes. "wait I'm in Minneapolis, where did you say you were" Pretty funny. That trailer to Wisconsin was a Refer. It purred like a kitten right behind my bunk all night. It backed a lot getter than those spread axles. Wonder where we will go next.
good stuff man, is your mentor an owner op or does he have a company truck. Remember the rear (last) axle is your pivot point on spreads, where as the front axle is on vans.
Im 6'0 and 225 weight and doc says to lose about 20 and blood pressure should go down considerably-been hitt n the gym and walking alot so the weight is what i gotta get off-thanks for the info
Thank you AZS, Pivoting the trailer isn't the problem, at least that I can tell, compensating for the center spreads binding up is the real hassle, completely throws me off. #### humbling is what it is, I use to be able to back anything up.
Have a new trailer behind us. Backed that step deck in a truck stop slot pretty good today. I guess we are picking up a coil tomorrow.
AZS I forgot to answer your question. My trainer is an owner op, sometimes because of fuel costs we don't run the truck at night which can make for a hot bunk. We are in El Paso now. We started out in Detroit the day before yesterday. We had picked up some I beams in S. Carolina the day before and that put us in reach of the load in Detroit. That is one hell of a sad town, at least the part we were in, run down once beautiful old Victorian homes and Brick Row houses. Sad Sad Sad. We picked up some machinery there one piece alone was 34k. All odd shaped stuff with sharp corners. One poor flatbeder was sent up there with a steel step deck and could not put any of the heavy stuff on his trailer. We tarped that load and scaled it, 79k. We padded the corners as best we could but by St Louise we had every flatbed trucker calling us that we had holes in the tarp. The tarps were kind of old anyways. I have some pictures of the loads. When I figure out how to load them on here I will post them Junkero
No problem, I assumed it was an owner op by the way you were talking. My mentor was also and he didn't like to run his truck either, only this was in January lol. Still, rather be too cold then too warm. No offense. Yeah Detroit is a dreary looking place, wait till you see some of the steel mills in winter time. Does your mentor not have edge protectors? I learned reeeal fast that anything with even the sharpest edge/point will quickly get eviscerated at 60+ mph.
After making it to Phoenix to drop off the Machinery ( it turned out to be a steel coil roller) We went to the terminal to get some minor work done on the truck. Here are some pictures of the load before we left Detroit.
Here is a picture of the load that cause us some trouble. The very famous band's stage equipment. We found out that they overloaded another truck that was there too.
