Reefer or flatbed career?

The problem with doing Reefer is you Get So Lazy.

You tend to just sit around a bunch and watch mindless TV.

Don’t get me wrong, Getting Tanked day after day can get old too.

And than you just hit a wall and dream of nothing more than just getting back into Reefer

Only after rehab of course though

My name is Tommymonza and I have a Tanking Problem.

 

Hours of service are the same with reefers or flatbed. Reefers will work for you and many reefer outfits have fancy trucks set up for driver comfort. Take a look at MC Van Kampen; trucks run 75 mph.
Click here > MC Van kampen Trucking
M.C. VanKampen covers 75% of the country excluding the East Coast. Some of our main destinations are: California, Arizona, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Texas, Georgia, Alabama.

 

MC VanKampen

 

Stay with flatbed. I hauled a LOT of reefer, thank goodness, by the hour, and I can say, without question, some of my biggest hassles in trucking involved reefer. It's like you were doing them a big favor by delivering what THEY ordered, "back it along the fence, we'll come and get you when we need the stuff", and there you sit, after driving the wheels off to get there, making less and less as the time goes by, and your reefer using $4.00/gal fuel. Flatbed is a much different game, and my experience, is they are waiting for YOU. Reefer can be ok, but ONLY by the hour pay and you can watch the guys paid % or by the load, get madder and madder. Heck, I'd pull a van or dump trailer before reefer again.. Good luck.

 

Here's two more you can look at:
Holland Enterprises Inc.
Freymiller
Both do long runs with an average of over 1000 miles per load.

 

@Ssand Man works there and can answer that question. Maybe he'll see this post.

 

Yes, you will run thru Little Rock quite often. Not a lot of deliveries tho, just passing thru.