Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Tostal miles I believe was 809.

Pay was $2700

I left my name and number with the logistics Sargeant and the civilian shipping coordinator and said call anytime. I have another one just like this in SLC for Wednesday that I'm en route to now.

 

Holy ####! This is a troll post right? Hauling jet engines for 3 bucks a mile? Throw away tarps? Straps over the engine? Well they get what they pay for.

Hopefully they hit you with a huge claim.

 

Couple years ago one of the carriers brokered out a load picking at the airport, outside carrier strapped over top. Total loss, $11m claim. The brokered carrier only had $100k coverage, the brokering carrier ate #### on that.

 

Sorry, this is not a "Troll Post". You obviously didn't look at my pics close enough to see the chains and binders under the bottom edge of my tarp that I used to secure the engines trailer to my deck. There is a diagram on each side of the engines trailer that depicts the securement requirements. The engine is secured to its own trailer by large dowel pins and bolts as well. No need for straps to secure the load .The straps are there to help prevent the tarp from flapping in the wind. They were also hand tight . I had to get permission from the dock supervisor to toss the straps over the engine.

If you would like to meet me in SLC we can go on post together and you can watch me secure the next one without any damages.

Just out of curiosity, when you first began to post here did other drivers beat you up with wild claims about your load and rate of pay without knowing any of the facts about it? Is that your way of retaliation? Just scream BS from the jump? It's okay if you don't believe me hence the offer to hop in the passenger seat and see for yourself.

Your hopeful wish for my ill will says alot about your character as a man and a driver. Other than hoping for my financial ruin with a huge claim against me, is there anything else you'd like to wish upon me like a slow and agonizing painful death? Maybe I could get hit by another truck and never make it home to my family?

 

I have hauled my fair share of engines being that I work at a company that hauls almost exclusively Aerospace freight. I have been around even more then I have hauled. There are only two hard and fast rules that apply to hauling engines. No securement anywhere except the lower stand and no bungees any where they can touch the engine. You are batting a thousand on ignoring those rules.
As far as the hope of a claim that may be a bit harsh on my end. When guys that don’t have a clue about the freight they are hauling, or the proper equipment show up to haul a high value load for barely any premium in the rate it screws it up for everyone.

You posted the rate btw. I completely believe you hauled that engine for 3 bucks a mile. I also know that broker probably kept more they you got off the original rate.

 

If you had actually spent the money on real tarps you wouldn’t need to throw straps over the load to keep your Walmart tarps from shredding.

 

Well, my days of tarping are done. I don't carry them on the truck anymore. Did you assume that this is the first aircraft engine I've ever put on the deck? I'm guessing my load securement being placed like the Air Force diagram and not a single one of my bungee cords touching the engine is incorrect? Even approved by the dock supervisor? The one bungee cord you may have been referring to close to the engine was touching the vertical support dowels from the engine to the trailer.

If there is anything else you want to prove you are better at than me or the rest of the drivers feel free to just keep posting away to your hearts desire.

Make sure you set up alerts for my posts. I'd hate for you to miss an opportunity to criticize my work

Oh, are you current or ex-military by chance?

 

I feel like you think I ha e some personal vendetta against you. I don’t. I’m just calling it how I see it.
If you don’t tarp anymore why would you take a high value tarp load? The shipper should have turned you away if you didn’t have the right equipment.

You’re securement on the stand may be exactly as it should be. The straps over the engine are still going to cause a major issue on the other end.

This isn’t a competition. We are not even playing the same game. I’m a company driver not an o/o.

I’m not ex military but I’m willing to bet they don’t throw straps over engines...

Good luck. You’re going to need it.

 

Wow. You kinda have to be a little gullible to haul anything from SLC to Tucson for $2700. Stop doing that. You're messing things up for the rest of us.

 

@sawmill, haha, I had a customer of mine that set up a complete route for me from Dallas to SLC, SLC to Tucson, Tucson to Morenci,AZ Morenci, AZ to Woodward, OK and then return to Dallas. Each leg paid me quite well so that's why I decided to take it. Normally I don't stop in the central Western States. I have a really good customer of mine who purchases their materials from a supplier in Dallas that I take to Milpitas, CA but I'll stop in between every once in a while.