What you refuse to haul

Be careful if it's finished molding for houses. The wind will raise the grain in the wood so they usually make you tarp it. There's a lot of finished molding and door stock going out of California.

 

Whats that mean, raise the grain? Anymore solid hardwood mouldings are the exception in my area- mdf and plastics have all but taken over for the most part.

 

I'm talking about pine molding. I've never had anything to do with hardwood molding. Pine molding is usually shipped unpainted and the air rushing over the surface at 60 mph will eventually dry the wood around the grain lines, raising the darker pitch lines in the wood.
That's the way it was explained to me. Summer or winter, we tarp molding when we haul it. A lot of time it will be wrapped in plastic. Doesn't matter, tarp it.

 

Interesting

 

Very interesting...didn't know that was a thing.

I don't understand tarping most loads, such as Plywood.

I hauled a gold mining sluice plant this summer.
The mental midget wanted it tarped.
I laughed and laughed, then drove away with it untarped.

Seriously you want me to tarp it, so it can then sit outside 365 days a year for decades, having dirty water pumped to it, and gravel poured into it.
4 days later I got it to its destination, and told the new owner that the guy wanted it tarped, but I refused.
He laughed to, and was shocked they would want it tarped.

 

And a 1000lbs pounds of metal chips and coolant! Nope!

 

Crushed cars, onions and anything that needs tarp in the winter that doesn't pay a lot lol

 

I don’t run East and I don’t run West
I don’t do the mountains but I do my best

I hate the snow and hate the heat but trying my best to be the one to beat

My rate per mile is not that flashy and now that I look, my trucks quite trashy

Faded paint and broken parts and most of the time it just won’t start

I won’t haul heavy or go to the Ports
Im the guy you see in flip flops and shorts

I’m broke as heII and don’t understand
Why anyone would ever become
A Truck Drivin’ Man?


This is what popped into my head at 3am when I read the post
That said I’ll never haul wet bagged weed
That stuff leaked and stained my trailer so bad that it took several washes to get it off and straps that smelled so bad that I tossed most of them

 

Weed? As in marijuana?

I would think hauling that would ruin a trailer for going anywhere else that weed wasn't legal. I know I definitely wouldn't want to pull that trailer through any of the Texas border checkpoints.

 

Yes
Picked up in AZ and delivered to like Maine?

I was given papers saying it was legal
It was technically low enough in % of the drug part to be legal
I think it went to a place that makes lip balm that when I got there was guarded like a prison but I picked it up in a field
Big white 2000lb bags that were soaking wet and it looked like manure running out my trailer and smelled like pot

I found a strap a few days ago that was used for this and it still wreaked and I hauled that load a few years ago