Let’s talk about hauling produce on flatbeds.......

specifically, lanes, time of year, commodity and equipment needed. Produce can get you out of some places where you would ordinarily never go with a skateboard. I’ll start,

Just got back to Dallas with onions from eastern Oregon. 20 skids of bagged onions delivered to a produce supplier. Had to top tarp it only. Kinda heavy but it paid well above the other freight in that area. Was told they run onions on flatbeds as long as it’s not freezing. So think late spring to fall. Any additional thoughts? Please add more to the thread and let’s see what we come up with. Might surprise you.

 

World's biggest pumpkins on a stepdeck
Watermelons under a sidekit(and don't worry those sidekit guys will haul them like they do sheets and coils,very few tiedowns)

 

Short haul around here , Apples.......

 

Watermelons. Or in Jersey (Waddermleons...) anyhow...

those go into a covered wagon. Take the sides down after you get empty. Sometime.

Do not whatever you do put that on a non airride truck.

 

Where is “around here”?

 

Upstate NY and New England.....

 

What time of year, do you tarp them, where do you haul them?

 

From farms in like 22 bushel pallet sized bins.......

No tarp , real short runs at harvest time.

 

Ive seen potatoes onions and watermelons on skateboards. Theres a lot of green beans here in tennessee, i will pay attention to see how theyre leaving the produce plants that get them straight from the field. They come out of the field on stakeside flatbeds with a rubber mat bottom that gets reeled in by pto shafts at the produce joint.

 

We hauled maters on flatbeds from So. fla. back up to canning plant near macon,ga. in wood boxes stacked 2 across 2 hi, and had to have Fla. dept of maters put their stamp on it at the agg. ck station and the lady allways wanted you to load a sample bag for them to look at? they wanted you at plant before sun got on them a 2ed time so they were fresh.