Post flatbed load photos here V2.0

Nothing real exciting the last few weeks
15’6” wide box
10’ wide preload. These are about as easy as flatbeding gets. We drop the trailer and tarp off at the customer, they load, belly tarp, strap, and top tarp (including all the bungees I think) and a local driver goes and picks them up for us .
two pick, one drop pod load with my brand new straps from the last preload! Only downside is I now have a bunch of 15” bungees that I have to trick another driver into taking off my hands!

 

Wish you the best brother !! Life is to short to work with people you hate

 

Thanks man! My boss is actually a really nice guy, and I like him, but he sure sucks at being a boss. That’s the way it is with the upper management as well.

When I started this job, my position was brand new. No one in the company knew how to do my job, I came in with minimal flatbed experience and no knowledge of our products. Without any real training, I dove in head first and kinda just made it up as I went along. I managed to teach myself pretty much everything I now know. It was a rocky road but I have learned so much, and gained so much trust from the customer. Problem is, I still have to answer to the chain of command that still doesn’t know anything about what I do. They don’t like it when I make decisions for them, but at the same time they are never out in the field like I am and refuse to actually get involved in the day to day situations that require the decision making. It’s frustrating as hell!

That said, I do realize the grass may not necessarily be any greener anywhere else I go, and these problems may very well exist at every company. I still have time to change my mind, but that will mostly depend on what (if anything) management decides to do to handle this situation. So far I’m not impressed!

 

When I see the pictures of the crazy loads you get this just blows my mind! Talk about trial by fire! I’d say you’ve accomplished a lot there and any other flatbed loads should be a breeze…
You’ve got this man!

 

Thanks!

 

That articulating boom had to be heavy on the drives.

 

It was right in there. Because I’ve got a flip neck, I could get more on the steers. I can scale 20 on the steers, and 46 and change on the drivers. Those man lifts are such a pain in the ash. This one did not have the over ride to fold the bucket back 180*, so it had to set on the rear deck. I couldn’t load it the other way either, so it is what it is.

 

If you didn't have an accident or tear up anything.... you got yourself some experience.

 

I agree, makes a good story.

Honestly though that load I had before was nothing compared to scariest road I’ve ever been on went to a mining place in West Virginia. I thought for sure one of those hair pin turns on a 12’ wide road was going to end my career. It was 13 miles and took me 40 minutes.