Swift flatbedders... Oklahoma a no hire zone?

Witchy, yep that's the typical eastern triangle (that doesn't exist btw). Coil to Laredo, cat load or frame rails to nc or sc, chassis load to IN, rinse and repeat. 3000- 3200 mi/wk in busy time. How's Steve btw?

 

Which Steve are you asking about?

 

Lol you Steve, been a long time. How's vans treatin ya?

 

Treating me as well as can be expected. Probably the ONLY reason I'm still doing this is the fact I leased a truck.

Flatbed is WAY TOO MUCH WORK for the piddly little extra Swift pays you. NO WAY would I consider flatbedding as an O/O, the extra fuel alone wouldn't make it worth it.

 

Lol I don't do fb for the extra cash. I do fb because I love it. There's more benefits as well besides the extra money; we have mostly open windows for p/u and delivery, we get good long mileage trips, our support staff out of phx and Gary are top notch, we get a small company feel due to low amount of fber's along with a company that has access to tons of freight. While the bonuses of fb aren't apparent at first you get to see them as time goes on. As far as a l/o with fb the only slight negative would be decreased fuel mileage. Most fber's are getting around 6-7.

 

My 13 week average is in the mid 7s, I just pulled a 9K load from GA to TX and got 8.5 mpg. You can't get 8.5 pulling an MT skateboard!