Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

I usually like running concrete, but talked to a coworker who had one shift this week. Two 20 ft x 4 ft panels, stacked on top of each other. 4 straps, clean deck (no ice), clean dunnage. He tapped the brakes and the bottom one slid right upto the headache rack. ??? Has that happened to anybody before?

 

ice or water on the concrete? that happens more than the ice on the deck (since around here all the stuff sits outside waiting for delivery/sell/whatever)

 

I don't worry about concrete moving around nearly as much as I worried about steel...most of the time, the stuff just sits there. Occasionally, if there's short pieces, they might move around a little. Like @LoneCowboy said, this time of year, the stuff is usually wet when it comes out of the plant and if it flash freezes instead of drying there might be ice. I had a load last month, the bottom tier didn't budge but the next 2 tiers kept moving to one side. Had to be ice between the slabs. It wasn't even a spring ride trailer, which sometimes will bounce the load around...very frustrating, eventually I added another tiedown to pull opposite of what I already had on there...

 

Plank to Stoney Brook University

 

Universities are always so much fun. Totally designed for big trucks with lots of room to maneuver. /s On the plus side, in the spring and summer the "scenery" is amazing.

Box culvert 9x5x8 about 31,000lbs

going to a mountain casino town. (which also are totally designed for big trucks). Got shut down by the wind (insane wind) so more tomorrow.

 

My pretrip math said 475 miles. Ended up at 519 door to door. Figured the math out and it’s easier to justify way less tolls and 12 mpg average plus faster load n unload times bc receivers let you pull around all the FTL guys waiting to unload for their quick pick pallet.





Pallets of 9’ house wrap

 

Plank to Oxford Ct.
now I just gotta wait for the crane...

 

an inlet, which despite them being called yesterday for it and me calling them this morning were totally unprepared to get it off. They finally put an excavator on each side and i drove out from under it.


Then got some manholes (which i totally forgot to take a picture of) and am trucking down the highway and all of a sudden i'm losing air like crazy and the compressor is running every minute

What the ...............?

Pull over and well this seems to not be normal


got the load repowered, the mobile mechanic came out and we jury rigged it and babied it back to the shop.

 

Delivered a lil sum-sum today.... pretty cool place...

Saw this guy right before delivering...


And got to spend this past weekend at home..