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The driving is the easy part.

 

Welcome to flatbed.

 

LOL...Try untarping, rolling up fifteen straps, folding and rolling your tarps, tieing down your dunnage, and putting everything away. At night. With no yard lights. In the rain with wind gusts up to thirty knots. After having driven all day and chaining up twice.
That was Friday evening for one of our guys. He's 68 years old. Never heard a word of complaint and everything was done right and up to standard.
He'll be retiring next year. I don't think we'll be able to replace him.

 

Lots of little tricks ya gotta learn for flatbed. Strap winders make rollin up straps quick and easy.

Folding up huge lumber tarps? Do it where its slightly inconvenient for others. You get someone to help ya out pretty quick lol. This works about 1 out of 5x's for me. Most of the time I get told to park in the street and untarp way out of the way.

Have a routine for how you do things. It makes everything go quicker.

 

*follows advice and tries to roll up tarps in the middle of the interstate*



*is now dead*

 

Maybe not the freeway. But kinda in the forklift operators way, and as soon as you get it laid out they'll help ya fold it real quick like usually.