Winter gear for flatbedding?

antifreeze for your tarps !

 

a shovel to clear the bed or your trailer off. Salt to put on the bed when iced over or under your tires if you need traction. A spray deicer is nice if you keep your headache rack locked. Back in the day when fuel tanks had cross over lines I always carried a butane torch with me.

Extra food and water is good. I always carry a couple of candles too. A old timer told me years ago that a candle could keep it warm enough in the truck if you were froze up that along with your bedding and coat you wouldn't freeze to death.

 

Pretty much everything has already been mentioned. I will just stress A GOOD sleeping bag. Double boot backup. Most of all; you just can't have too many spare gloves. I like goatskin over cotton. They grip GREAT but wear out fast. I get the goatskin online; 70 bucks for a dozen pair. Most people won't spend that kind of money. But I hate to wear gloves and the goatskin is the only think I found that gives acceptable dexterity.

 

I can get an entire high vis CAT suit (jacket with hood, and pants) at a local bargin bin place for $20 a piece. i have 4 sets in the closet

 

As far as gloves, IMHO, do not buy the really spendy ones. They wear out just as fast. I just buy them 3 packs from Pilot. And get some brown jersey gloves for liners. Have several pairs of each. Rotate them over the heater vent, and you'll always have dry warm gloves.

 

I always had a ski-mask like for hunting. Air line antifreeze. Can of ether. All the above mentioned too.

 

All of these guys have had good ideas, that work...... however I would add to the list: a set of high lift knee pads.... I have a pair of gels that have the 4 wheel drive grippers and they stand off the ground about 2 inches.... works well at keeping the ole prayer bones high and dry.

 

Sounds like a side business to me!

 

Agreed on extra food & water. I started out over 30yrs ago, mostly day/night runs offroad into the many oil and gas rigs in western Alberta. You break down out there and it might be a day or so before someone comes by. Packed a box with a few cans of soup, beans, corned beef and some tea or coffee and 6 candles etc. Also brought along one of those single burner cooking rings and 3 bottles of butane (same bottle as for a torch).

Only needed it once, I was toasty warm and well fed and watered when I got out of there.

 

I have a good quality pair of rubber (not plastic) overalls and hooded raincoat and rubberized gloves. Its bulky enough to wear over a Carhart jacket and I keep snug and don't worry about wind and cold even in Montana and 10 degrees. Tarping is just part of a flatbed. Got hurt once with a covered wagon tarp in 30 MPH winds in CA. I try to tarp inside or down wind of a bldg. No one has ever told me to move.

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