Post your flatbed load pictures here

I see one of those blocks has a major split in it.. Hope it does not go all the way into the piece. Might cause you issues later if a lot of the weight will be sitting on the outer edges and not on the deck..
Good luck also in your new gig.

 

nope, got lucky this time

just enough!

first time having to use my TWIC card too

 

Well I got a very cool load yesterday. Got to go out to the flightline in Meridian Naval Air Station, Mississippi and grab some plane parts and tools and run down to (800 miles) West Palm Beach Int Airport, FL for some repairs on a Navy Training Jet. It pays round trip and hold over time at 450.00 a day. Only prob is, its fixed after 1 hr.so tomorrow morning, going back. Oh, it only weighed less than 10,000 lbs and 4 total pieces.

 

I noticed it as well after I took the picture. The piece I'm picking up only weighs 22,000# so I'm not sure if it will affect it or not. I'll have to see exactly what it is I'm going to haul. Might have to go exchange it for a different one.

 

I used to only use my TWIC at ports, some refineries, etc but now I have been using it at Military bases. You can go unescorted and dont need a base pass. It will also get you into areas on airfields that you would never get to. I have heard you can use it for airports when travellling too and can surpass the security screen, not sure if the latter part is true.

 

Ft. Campbell, KY and Holloman AFB will not accept the TWIC card. Just found that out this month when I went there

 

Thats nuts as a I just went through the double security check at NAS Meridian all the way out to flightline (because of TWIC) unescorted and was let through the gates at Galaxy Aviation like a rock star but you have to be escorted (safety reasons) as they have all the lear jets parked everywhere and trying to take off and just had GW Bush take off about 40 minutes before my arrival.

There was 1 port that wasnt going to take TWIC and I only had my paper CDL with me as it was just renewed and that was at Oakland. I was picking up a "special load" there and had an appt with customs. I got pissed at the lady as she first said to me "dont you understand effin english" and then she denied my TWIC in which I said "you better call your effin boss right now" LMAO she did and they let me in no prob. I also was trying to explain to her that my TWIC supersedes my state issued CDL as its Federal and checked out by homeland security for gods sake. LOL

 

Those Navy test pilots are hard on their planes. I hauled the wing of a F5/T38 from Pax River a while back. The pilot ejected supposedly and the plane hit the tarmac hard driving the gear through the wing. I was trying to get back to haul the fuselage too, but didn't make it.

 

I checked in at White Sands with my TWIC and they just ushered me on thru and had the dog walk around my truck. That was it......and it's a nuclear site!!!

I've had them search my truck from top to bottom at Ohare Airport but at a missile range they just let me on it lol

 

some military bases will ask for your drivers license and some will ask for your twic. it depends on what the base commander has made as policy for that particular base.

some will ask for both. very few places will you be escorted on a base. fort bragg has one section where you go thru additional security after you are on main base and are escorted then to load certain products. ft. campbell only asks for your drivers license when you check in the commercial gate, its not that they wont accept the twic, they dont ask for it, they get more info on you from your drivers license.

the usual deal on a actual flightline is they will check your tires for rocks before you pull out there, rocks are not jet engine friendly . some of the bases are appointment only now. dover afb and red river depot as examples. at dover you will get a walkaround by the k-9 puppy. langley, eglin are pains, langley being the worst. ft.polk has to be the easiest, scan the barcode on your license and youre in.

the problem with twic is no one has the scanners to read the biometric info, so its actually a fancy id card at the moment. if ya cant scan it you cant get the info contained in the chip, they actually havent even approved which scanner they will use.

many ports also require you to have your plate registered with e-modal or you dont get in even with a hired escort.

and a word of advice, dont take pictures when you are on a actual military flightline and post em to the internet . there are ususally signs up saying no photos. someone might get upset.