Live Loads - Drop & Hook Loads

That's another reason to carry pieces of 2X4. Dump your tractor airbags, put the pieces of wood on the frame rails, back under trailer and inflate airbags. You can crank down landing with ease then.

10 points to whoever can guess the main reason to carry pieces of 2X4 when hooking to a trailer.

 

Ha!
You think you could get the tractor frame under the trailer!!!!

You're funny

 

I like running the same trailer. But in flatbed i certainly dont want to do drop and hook

 

There are customers where bumping a dock and getting unloaded is a lot easier than dropping and hooking.

One customer I go to gets 15 skids. I drop in the dock, then bobtail a half mile away to a potholed gravel lot with 6 inches on either side of the trailer. Just hooking is a pita, getting out without hitting is a skill move with the potholes. Half the time the yard jockey is bringing my orginal trailer in as I'm leaving.

 

I think it depends on the customer. I dont particularly mind sitting for an hour or two, but after that I'm ready to go, especially when I see empty trailers on the yard and they're on the 4th or 5th hour of "unloading" me. Though if it's a live unload I know I wont have to play 'hunt an empty' to get my next load.

 

When I was a company driver, by the hour, I didn't care how long it took, fact is, I almost encouraged it. When I had my own truck, company I was leased to, gave 2 hours to load, or unload, after that, it was an hourly charge. You wouldn't believe how things would come together at around the 1:45 mark,,,