Why do Truck Drivers Refuse to Work in the Flatbed Division? 🚛
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2022
- Why would you NOT consider working as a Flatbed driver?
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I'm a flatbedder I find the waiting time argument absolutely hilarious because I hear stories of dry vans literally spending whole days waiting to get unloaded
Reefer is worse
@@AncientPharaoh Reefer is THE WORST. I arrived at a shipper and 6hrs later they told me my load was "still in the %#&ing field"!!
@@kemobam
You arrive early, go away no time for you. You arrive late sorry you missed up your appointment, wait up to 5-6 days for rescheduling. Come on time, they’ll make you late up to 34+hrs.
@@AncientPharaoh Yes Sir!!
Not true refer is the worst on delivering and shipping nit dry van
You forgot companies to greedy to pay drivers what they're worth
@@skinny-peters-JR. tmc pretty much are unreal. Meanwhile the CEO make over a million with bonuses. Bull. It should pay $150,000. With trucks that run 70mph it's alot of work.
@@jeremiahberry1134 it's not a lot of work and why are you counting that man's money? Would you say that about Walmart? I couldn't drive for a big company like that because they have too many rules but they're a very successful company none the less, just like Maverick, which I can't stand.
BINGO brian. You hit the nail on the head
Plus all the above...That's asking for it.
They drive, it's not that skilled lol
Flatbed for life baby!!!!!!
I honestly believe it is just to much work. People just want to drive and not "work,"
I do it because I love looking in my side mirrors and thinking "I did that"
And I love the workout when tarping and extra money
Depends on what they pay me for said work. Nothing? No deal. I can get repetitive stress injuries for a profit.
Mean while they 100 pounds over weight and out of breath walking into the truck stop 😂😂😂
I love the work aspect of it. I absolutely hated refer when all I did was drive.
@@shawnhinsley4896 I couldn't agree more
Hey bro, what would you say is the most common type of flatbed that brokers ask for?
Which type of flatbed trailer is the most commonly used?
Also, what types of tarps?
All I like to do is flatbed. My experience is I get loaded so much faster. I make more money and I like being active. The work helps keep me fit
The wait time is a joke. 98% of the place I go, zero wait. In fact they are waiting on me to untarp.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing
He must have confused it with reefer 😂😂
@@cormancrew5497 there are a few places that you wait at but they are the exception.
Don't know man I got stuck at a steel mill for two days once and an ingot place for 14 hours
@@Scarcitytown no way I'd wait like that. I start planning my departure if I wait for an hour.
I loved flatbed! Might go back and do it again. Been pulling hazmat tankers for last 12 years though.
Definitely not scared to tarp though. Most drivers are scared to burn calories!
I was thinking about getting into flatbed just to have the physical work aspect of it… I drive tankers now and enjoy it…. Especially the Shosh of the tanker when I gotta hit the brakes due to a 4 wheeler
What’s up man I’m a flatbed trucker now, are you an OOP for tanker or are you with a company?
Same here bud.Did flat 20 yrs.Moved to tanker.
@@StraighttothepointLIVE I drive a tanker. DID FLAT 20 YRS.Tanker is more money.
Keep it brother, tanker is sexy asf lol
I've worked with TMC, Yourga, P&S, and ATS. Out of all those companies TMC paid the worst, due to having a sliding pay scale that was affected by everything you did or didn't do.
On top of that the CEO was stealing from the company to fund his race car team. It was something to see when the old man found out what his son was doing 😁🤣
That is definitely one company I will never go back to ever!
Flat bedding is a tuff job yes but also rewarding too, I never met a bunch of guys willing to lend a hand or to show newbies the ropes like I have with flat bedding.
I haven't been flat bedding for about 5 years now and still find myself helping out the newbies in the industry.
Hats off my friends be safe and make it home.
1 you get exercise, 2 faster loading and unloading times, 3 way more pay than dry box or reefer, I started my driving career in reefer, Tyson makes you wait 24hrs for a load, veggies I used to do that from California to New York and then I did dry box, minimum 4hrs of waiting time, yeah stay in other fields, don't come to flatbed.
@Brandon Comer tell that to my $5,500.00 aweek Monday through Friday, off on weekends and I usually go home once or twice during the week.
@@jorgeposadas1192 You a company driver or O/O?
Fyi flatbed has the least wait time for both loading and unloading on average
-a flatbed driver
Correct.
And most flat bed freight customers are on banker hours . No 11pm dock time to wait like door swinging trailers
I know ...reefer has always had the longest wait in my opinion.
Unlike Van/ reefer.. we can be unloaded anywhere and don’t have to wait at a dock to be unloaded… and we don’t hours at a time… it keeps me fit as well
22 years on flat bed and i couldn’t agree more about least waiting time i heard Refer trailer waiting most
I believe it’s just plain laziness! I like it because it keeps me active!
No doubt it's laziness.
It's more about pay on my end I dont mind getting busy and making it happen but the pay us trash at least on my past experience
@@jonathangarcia4089 Yup and they take too much taxes out
Yes, I don't mind the Hard Work .. But We're NOT out there looking to Work for FREE or CHEAP!!!
so let me just work twice as hard for half the pay? Lol I'd rather get more pay for less work and be active on my free time...
I’ve been a flat bedder since last October, it’s definitely hard work but I get a great sense of mission accomplishment when I’m running down the road with a secured, tarped load. Plus it’s keeping me in good shape and from getting fat while trucking. If you’re thinking about coming to flatbed, make the commitment in your mind that you’re all in before you start day 1 of training. I’d recommend Maverick or TMC or Melton to get your start, you’ll definitely want some solid training before you go down the road hauling a 48,000 pound steel coil. Good luck, it’s actually a great job, the tarping really ain’t that bad. Takes me less than 2 hours to strap or chain, and tarp. It usually takes less than an hour to get loaded or unloaded, like someone else on here said, the consignee is usually waiting for me to untarp.
How about pay?
Have you tarped in the Midwest during winter?
Shipper and receivers usually get right on it! I do it at 60
We are a dying breed brother
I love oversized. Bigger it is, better it is.
When it takes an army escort because my load is so massive and the city only gives me a couple hours window in the middle of the night to pass through, now thats a load. (I can also make a regular joe yearly salary with that 1 load)
How did you get into that field? I'm a flatbedder but I want to do oversized loads.
Don’t forget the hidden costs of running your own trailer/truck with gas prices and maintenance
I love my wide loads or 250k lb loads. You go pulling thru town woman's panties get wet.
THATS WHAT I LIKE TO HEAR. 🤜💥🤛
What load is paying you above 20k ? I'd love to know and this isn't scarcasm I don't have a cdl
“ I just wana sit in the truck”
Right. Thats the honest answer but people saw the choice for other excuses and ran with it
For the money we getting here in the flatbed yes 😅. Haha
I started driving with flatbed,I have done coils, pipes, oversize etc I loved the oversize cause permits, routes etc all preplanned plus we got to sleep each night
I almost never wait to be unloaded. But my delivery times are consistent, usually between 8am-4pm. I never have to bump a dock at 3am!
I did step deck years ago. I was younger and enjoyed it. Yup. No bumping docks at 3am.. it seems like the people were happy to see me at shipper and receiver.. pretty much in and out..
Now that reffer crap!! They can keep that!! Always waiting at shipper and receiver!!! Not for me. Each to their own
I did my last 3 years of over the road doing flatbed better yet Conestoga trailer's is the lazy man's flat bed no tarping required..I really loved it I never had a waiting issue with customers..
Flatbed, od and heavy haul are the men's department of trucking
Flatbeds drop decks and detach is the life!
Women do flat bed also
Whats od
And cdl a tow
Gotta love gate keeping what's behind your truck. You're not a real man unless you're haulin dynamite in a wheelbarrel down Wolf Creek Pass am I right?
Really I'd refuse to do reefer work. I guess every driver has their preference.
Me as well, between the noise, extra fuel, and the actual worst wait times in the trucking industry by far!!
The reason i dont like it, is that I’ve done it, working in the weather, freezing cold in the winter, soaking wet by the time I get home, and felt like i wasn’t getting paid enough to put up with the elements and the abuse to my body
I did heavy haul OD for 34 years. I hated tarps, and I hated loading and unloading in hard weather. Other than that, I loved it
106 degrees in Arkansas and 15 below zero in Wisconsin. Those were the only 2 days in over 5 year's that the weather was a bit out of range for me.
22% said i don't want to work, 9% said it's too much work, 7% said my time is too valuable, 4% are chickens, 59 % said we don't like to work just wanna be a steering wheel holder!
😆
53% said the juice ain’t worth the squeeze. If you’re dumb enough to work THAT hard for a 2 or 3 or 5 cent bump in pay, then hey, you do you! We get 90% (or more) of the pay, and do half the work. That isn’t lazy, that’s smart. (You know the old saying, “work smarter, not harder”? Yeah, that’s us. 🤓
this that old head propaganda that working harder is better even if you're getting paid half of what the easy job is getting paid lol
22% said they don't want to risk injury slipping on wet/frozen surfaces or tarping in 100+ degree weather
If flatbed actually paid for the extra work, you'd see those numbers go way the hell down. But you're barely getting paid for the miles you're missing out on, sometimes not even that, much less the additional work.
When I started I thought all this.
Now I do it and I'll never do anything else.
Well , it takes a different kind of man to be a flatbedder, you got the heat,you got the cold,you got the salt and road grime on tarps. Yea you gotta work. Hard work. You have to be fit ,have good balance. I love it and wouldn't do anything else.
Well if you can't stand the heat stay the beep away from my freight. You keep on going with your little box and stop parking in the fuel island. I have freight to chain down and flags to put on before dark. To much time waiting on loads? Well when your waiting at a food warehouse for 8 hours what do you call that? Give me a step, detach, or a stretch any day. FYI flat beds don't pay lumper fee's either. When I started driving I hauled a load 650 700 miles the lumper fee's for both load and unload were over a hundred dollars more than I got paid as a company driver to haul it. I do what I have to too pay the bills but I HATE box freight. Even when I'm in northern Wisconsin in February picking up a non functioning harvester.
You're not bright are you ?
Years ago there was a time I was in between jobs and took a local gig hauling odd shape beams for construction, It took about a hour of straping and tarping and climbing the flatbed to get it done properly also it was always on my mind if the loadshifted or 2nd guess myself did I secure the load securely, it was alot of stress!! Ever since I left and went to Hazmat Tanker and never looked back!!!
im a hazmat straight trucker now.
I love pulling flat, especially step deck!
Haha .. the reason I moved to flat bed ..waiting time , huge waiting time almost every time on refregirator
I think flatbed has the least amount of wait time.
We have a lot of wait time. But we get paid for it. Anything over two hours gets detention.
17 years of flat bed experience, recently switched to vans and i make twice the money with 90 percent less work.
Flat bed carriers are just too cheap. You never get paid nearly enough for the hassle.
This is the only real answer. I took pride in flat-bedding, but it’s not worth the effort when van drivers do less physical work and get paid more
My flatbeds are making $1 more per mile with flat vs van right now. Ain’t no way van is paying more in todays market.
@@tdashkevich owner ops? I’m talking from company experience
I got a buddy quit van hauling to haul rolls of steel in a day cab. He does pretty good moneywise. But he said he won’t go back to vans unless this place closes.
@@adrenaline4life233 yes o/o loads. but that goes to show how brokers are ruining rhe system. its listed for 1$ more per mile than the same van load. but flatbedder only gets offered 60% the rate.. hmm.
I was a flat bed driver for 17 years of 30 years driving ,flatbed makes you smarter driver, trust me
Your poll is correct and I concur with your findings. Also don’t forget it doesn’t pay enough for the amount of labor involved for the driver!
Very few if any FAT flatbedders!
I will sling chains till I can't do it!
They all got bad backs
Weak minds and weak backs is what I think. I've been flatbedding for nearly two decades, I'm 45 years old. I wouldn't do anything else honestly. Tarping, chaining is all part of the job and I love it. I started out pulling dry van and I realized really quick that I wanted more than that. There's just something about putting my steel toe work boots on every morning and getting it done. One thing I do know is I can probably throw a van driver or tanker yanker over my flatbed..lol.
What a boss. Cheers to you driver. Be safeee
Looking at it now there’s an even bigger reason. Lack of proper training. They’ll throw you into a 2-4 day class and expect you to know how to do everything. Flatbed is very hands on, need more hands on class training. Stretch it to 5 days minimum, first day first half of class teach about the straps chains weight limit each supports and distance between each strap to be DOT legal. After that 4 1/2 days minimum of outside practice on things like coils, heavy equipment, lumber loads metal loads speciality loads. Just cut the Execs pay for a few months so they can afford to have this extra stuff for their classes.
That is most definitely true!
Hell, all of that is what *keeps* me in flatbed. I enjoy securement and I take a lot of pride in a nice, neat tarp job.
I guess most effective to retain flatbed drivers is by paying them on revenue sharing option.
Yeah I tried that and still got screwed , 25% sounds good until you find out it's 25% of the profit after everything else is paid out before you get your piece of what is left , One trip and done working there ,
@@jickmccivy6327 hahaha trying to scam you. 25% of gross.
@@HansraRulez scam where ? It’s cats getting $2500 consistently running flatbed
*laughs in dry van drop and hook*
😂😂😂😂you dumb bro
Can also drop and hook reefers. 😊
Can also drop and hook flat bed too.
agree with 1. I hate tarping. especially for customers that require it on all loads simple because "we want the wrappers to arrive clean." when its 100° outside and you want a full load tarped with no rain in the forecast. im getting a load from someone else.
I don't mind strapping and chaining. part of the job. keeps me fit.
I love overdementional stuff. long as its not tarped too . I've done over weight, over height, lots of over width (up to 12.5' wide), and overlength (up to 80').
I've spent more time at customers when I pulled box van than I ever have with a flatbed. even when tarped. plus flatbed don't have lumper fees.
oregon flatbedder here. 8 axle setup. (4&4) 62/65k lbs loads and 102/105.5k gross plenty.
I run a small earthmoving business, so I'm a defacto flatbed truck driver. As others have said it's great exercise.
I suffered serious back pain for 30 years (6 damaged disks in my lower back) before I started this work and the physical exercise of loading and unloading, tying down etc has cured that for me (pain free for two years). So I'd drive flatbed all day if I was just driving.
Lazy door swingers 🤷♂️
This is my new insult for "steering wheel holders" 🤣
I’m using your stuff bro
I’m soooo stealing this😂😂😂
Love Flat bed! Ever get GPS address to pick up in a field somewhere?
Gotta love it 😂
After reading the comments I just realized how overly sensitive most flatbed drivers are and do to that simple fact I will never be a flatbed driver and only a car hauler....
I work for a company in Germany that delivers construction materials with side-kid trailers without covering and anti-slip beds.
Since the police can see the parts of the freight which sit higher then the side-kids of the trailer, they can check your Freight and how you secured the freight in a drive-by.
I am diving for 4 months now and I have multiple incidents where police or German Freight-Transportation-Authority sped past me just to pulled over the curtainsider in front of me. And when they pull you over, they also check for defects on your vehicle and your driving records.
Which means...If you are driving a truck where your load is visible to the authorities, like on flatbeds, and you properly secure your payload, you have much less to worry from them, because they don't pull you over in the first place.
My brother makes great money in flat bed! He doesn’t even own the truck! I don’t agreed with waiting time and unloading! Also i love the fact that there is physical work involved!
Cheers to your brother on being one of the hardest working trucker
Door dummy here just hit my one year mark. I jumped into this for a change and to make some money to clear debts and hopefully set myself up for a future that is still unknown to me. I'm just trying to get from Point A to Point B with as little bs as possible. I'm not a "professional driver" or "trucker." I drive an automatic semi from place to place. Thats it. No glamor no glory I'm not part of this industry. Just poked my toe in for a few years. I hope...
"Don't forget, you're here forever."
Flatbed driver here. All of those are valid points but not on every load will it suck. It will keep you more active. So far I have lost 30 pounds, gaining muscle and feeling great.
Thanks for your feedback!
I do lowboy work now and I love it. My oversized loads drive off my trailer under my control. No wait time... when I was OTR I was pulling stepdeck. I was proud of my tarping skills. Yall can keep your training walls, I do it with straps and chains
What?!? 😨. Never mind, I dream to work with flatbed.
I did flat beds for 30 years im 66now and still would do it i enjoined it the young drivers just want not to work keep the fath baby
I love flatbed. Been doing it since 2017. It's been my favorite division of trucking since childhood.
That’s why I haul pallets and wood pellets there’s no tarps it’s a lot straps but easy work. Love it
translation: "I'm too lazy. I just wanna drive but get paid more than grub hub."
They're scared to work. I love heavy haul.
As a flatbed driver all of the above is very true... I get weeks where I'm golden and rich in the pockets but others weeks your barebones on income... It's a very volatile job and very much a job that will wear you out and down over time.
I do flatbed locally for an excavation company. One of the reasons that drivers might refuse to get involved in flatbed is because you have to work significantly harder. HazMat, heavy haul, and flatbed drivers all should be paid top dollar.
I used to do flatbed otr. My boss issued me a tarp that was impossible to use on aluminum rolls from KY to Richmond CA.
Half the time I was charged $200 for damage. I quit the guy 3 times. He's in prison now for attempted murder. I can't get work because I have no reference. He constantly lied, blaming everything on drivers. The thing about flatbed work is that the driver gets screwed with too much. I wish I'd never started on flatbed. The bosses are almost always crazy.
I have to say as a ex LTL truck driver and a box van from pop to a 53-footer. I had it easy but when it comes to a flatbed those guys haven't really hard strapping tarp Etc. Benny have to get out and make sure like we all do make sure the equipment is solid but they have to do more to make sure the straps stay on it the bed and everything is stable on a flatbed they need to get paid more money. Thank you Brothers you do a good great job. 💯💯👍👍
Lazy,overweight and straight up no experience with strapping loads
Driver's lately do not want to lift a finger
I love it!
Helps keep the heart pumping and in shape 💪
Let's not forget the weather elements that accompany the work with the flatbed. And then the region that you pick up in or deliver to. Wind, rain, heat, dust, snow, and ice just can't be healthy for your body to withstand the constant changes that quickly, in the time that it takes to do the work of a flatbed. It's nice to just jump out and close the doors and ride.
I'm a flatbed driver for over 12 years I love it.
Flat bed is easy ! No waiting , tarps are not that bad , straps and chains are great and the work keeps you in shape ! It’s dangerous though because you need to secure you load and check it once and a while ! I make 2200 to 3900 a week ! This week I’m making 5000 . I put a lot of miles in ten days but it is well worth it !
I lost the eyesight in my left eye from a bungee cord, tarping a high n wide load at American axle in Buffalo NY.
I'm sorry to hear that.
I never was taught to tarp right, and never was much good at it. I have a bad back now, and can’t climb up on top of loads anymore. But although I strap and haul some flatbed loads for my company…Tarping would be a total NO for me taking an actual flatbed job.
I used to do flat bed and the number 1 reason why I won't do it again is because of the amount of time it takes to tarp which effects your drive clock and when you are putting on the 2nd tarp they consider it as the 2nd part of the 1st tarp which means they don't want to pay you for putting on 2 tarps and you better believe the 2nd tarp also burns your drive clock. I drive from 500 to 800 miles a day as a dry van truck driver and I make way more money working less than I did doing flat bed. I had to bust my butt off just to make $1,200.00 a week as a flat bed driver. Now I make from $1,500.00 to $2,500.00 as a dry van driver and I pick up and drop off preloaded trailers and work way less and make way more money than I did as a flatbed truck driver.
I pulled a flatbed for 24 years and currently still do. My wait times from start to finish is typically 1to 2 hours max that includes everything …loading unloading tarp and strapping everything. I’ve heard different stories about dry vans taking much longer. It is work, but I need exercise after sitting all day in a truck.
Flatbed trucking is a young man's game really. You love it or you don't. Pay attention to the pay increase with each type of load. It's nice.
I have zero complaints as a flatbed driver. Was paid $150 just to use the tarp. I did hate chain binders, those are just unsafe. Never sat more then a hour. Would always have a contact number to get unloaded.
I broke out flatbedding, did it for 10 years and loved it! Spent the last 20+ pulling HazMat tankers though and don't plan on doing anything else. Yeah flatbedding is work, no doubt about it, but I enjoyed the challenges.
Been a flatbed driver for 28 years the only reason most people don’t like to do it their unsure themselves hauling real freight. A flatbed operator can haul anything with the upmost confidence.
Why? I’ll tell you why. When most flatbed and heavy haul companies pays about the same like drop and hook dry van, why anyone would?? Why anyone what choose to work WAY HARDER? Not even talking about the fact the flatbed is WAY more dangerous than dry van.
I’m a flat bed driver for an electrician trade supplies & equipment distributor. We’d had box trucks and enclosed in the past, I avoided that at all cost. I believe and feel for myself flat bed and open deck is best way to go. Chains make me feel safer about my load securement too. As mush as y’all may hate them.
I’m retiring from the Marine Corps this year, currently attending Troops into Transportation here in Ga. I have an offer from TMC and Melton, I’m leaning towards Melton just because they are the less militarized company. Going to let me take my dog with me, and become part of the #flatbedgang. Socrates:
"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. it is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strengt of which his body is capable." This tells you everything when great men speak of being useful to the greater good of man kind.
I pulled a flatbed, drop deck, dovetail, and a oversized for 20 years, and it was the best driving I've ever done. In my opinion; the, biggest problem with trucking is the trucking companies...
I used to haul dry van and went to flatbed. One of my dry van loads took 15 hours to unload, yes I said 15 hours!
I enjoy flatbed throwing a tarp around is getting harder but flatbed is what keeps me fit
I just can’t find a good flatbed company that doesn’t have driver facing cameras 😞
We get "weather" being a big one, but many of our flatbed drivers prefer flatbed because of the physical aspect of it.
When I did flat bed, wait time wasn't a issue, load securement was fairly easily, tarping was ok, but really hated lumber tarps and bad weather.
The true issues are with carriers,
Knuckle head dispatchers who don't know anything except what a screen tells them. Companies who take their driver's for granted.
I just did 9 months flatbed at age 62 after doing van, reefer, hazmat. Albeit few tarp loads. I got the Guillain-Barre syndrome from J&J vaccine just after starting flatbedding again, hardest year trucking of my life, and I am taking a brief early retirement. Hope to return to steering wheel holding soon.
NUMBER ONE REASON: since 2006 the safety situation with shippers and receivers has gotten too hazardous. Construction companies worst. They hire insanely mean ex-cons, and fill the slots with anything with an empty head to slap a hard hat on.
Apply OSHA safety regs to trucking, Brandon, dammit. And make trucking companies back me up in the field. I miss the old I.C.C. Police. I actually got poked in the back twice by lift truck operators this year! Never happened 20 years ago. I lost count of times stuff was thrown down on me and hard hat saved my life.
I am also still healing from injuries caused by these Generation-Duh manliness = meaness, hawhaw boys.
NUMBER 2 REASON: shippers do know how to load trucks, but intentionally load illegally and impossible to secure. (hawhaw) so reload/fixing loads and securement was taking as long as the travel time. Flatbed load distances are mostly one day travel time, so lower wage by mileage pay, harder work.
Flatbed loads in the ‘90’s when I drove paid 20% more than vans on average. Today the premium is half that.
I worked in logistics and I could have told you all that without much research. But as far as long wait times for loading and unloading, I call BS on that because flatbed truckers will absolutely charge detention fees
Theres a reason there's such a severe shortage of skilled commercial drivers in the states. These companies treat skilled drivers like garbage and pay them like garbage and believe they should do hard labor on top of it. Between having a Class A license, keeping your record clean and having the skills to operates a semi, Commercial Drivers should be cherished as much as any other profession but that's not the situation.
They used to pay more for flatbed. When the rates dropped to the dry van level I quit pulling my drop deck and sold it…
I'm a flatbedder. More and more loads of stuff that is stored outside where we pick it up, stored outside where we drop it off at, and installed outside... Yet I have to tarp it.
I love it !!!💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿 really don’t wait to long for a load besides the weekend but it’s pretty much a moon-Friday job
I love flatbed even tho I'm dry atm most of my experience is flatbed
👍👍
Is it easy to switch from flatbed to dryvan ? Might be a dumb question
@masterofnone11 yep only real adjustment is being lazy cause u don't gotta do anything but keep the truck between the lines lol 😆 😂 🤣
Been driving flatbed since 1983. Your poll is right on. Most are lazy. Box jockeys like setting at Walmart waiting to unload . I enjoy your videos.
House hauler here. If you want out of flat bed driving and are OWNER OP go to a heavy haul company like pinnacle transport or Bennett. 4.64 a mile, 1.64 per escort. I make over 1.2m a year between two trucks.
I always drive flatbed, now I will not tarp a loads, I have haul oversize all the time.
At least you don't have to deal with those stupid lumpers. I will never do dryvan or refer. Because of the stupid lumpers
The poll has an issue of not having a "I'm not against it" option
A driver's job is to DRIVE and get your loads there safely and on time. When I started all of the best jobs were 'no touch' where the company understood that they were putting too much responsibility on the driver.
I have been a flatbedder for 22 years, the reason I have done this is because flatbedding always paid more than reefer or van
I haul reefer. I don't touch freight. I put aoad lock on and lock the trailer. I haul beef primarily out to the Northwest and frozen vegetables back to Texas. Easy, no messing with equipment. 23 years doing this.
I spent 8 hours in 20° tarpong a load of bentonite. Every single pallet was 100% wrapped in heavy plastic.
What I always hated with a passion is shippers insist I tarp shit that's been sitting out in the elements for months before I was sent to pick it up! How stupid.
I've done a little of each. If you're going to choose one or the other for a long career, I can tell you you'll probably be better of going flatbed. It's a lot more physically rigorous and you pick up and deliver at a lot more interesting sites. That little bit of extra effort keeps you moving between long periods of inactivity. Van hauling certainly was much easier. Kind of boring.
It’s just like any job, if you want to work your gonna do what it takes. No job is a kick back there has to be an effort
I'm a flatbed driver, and its like the trash taking itself out! More 💰 for real drivers!
Not enough pay. I've been flatbedding for 14 years