Switching over from tanker to flatbed?

Might want to rethink your plans, tanker is the best trucking job you can get. With all that a flatbedder has to do, in a week, you'll be wishing for that tanker job back. Don't do the flatbed, especially after a tanker job. Relax, Rome wasn't built in a day, stay with the tanker.

 

If you were on with Schneider, that should be enough to get you in the door at tanker outfits. Hopefully Chinatown will see this. He has referred lots of people with 6 months exp. Don't give up, like I say, flatbed is a good job, many advantages over a box, but believe me, the order of trucking goes, the worst, van/reefer, then flatbed, and tanker, the best. People spend their whole careers hoping for a tanker job. Hitching up a hose, opening a valve, and break out the truck wax anyday, over trying to tarp a "S" load with 2 dozen straps ( that need to checked every 100 miles) in gale force winds, will have you wishing for that tanker job, trust me.

 

TMC

 

Would it be so bad to put another 6 months in at your current outfit? Like @"semi" retired said, tanker has spoiled you from the start. Usually guys move into tanker after finding out how much work everything else is.

If you are looking to really WORK hard for your money, then go ahead and do flat deck. It is rewarding work and with the right experience at the right company(ies) can open bigger doors. But it's very hard work just starting out, and if you don't get the proper training, you'll grow sour to it very quickly.