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NewCanadianDriver
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Location: Peterborough, ON
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject: Flatbed drivers are the hardest working truckers! |
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| Well I'm hired with an excellent flatbed company. I've never done any flatbed work ever and I just spent the last two days shunting loads of steel from a factory to the yard and back for another load. I take my drugtest tomorrow, sign all of the paperwork and should be on the road by Sunday/Monday. I would just like to say that unless you have a rolling canopy on your flatbed (I want one of those trailers), flatbed drivers are the hardest working truckers in the industry. My hat is off to you! I join the ranks of the elite (with the exception of hazmat) and am very proud to do so. |
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yoopr
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| odd that you can drive and haven't taken a drug test |
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formertrucker
Joined: 07 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: Flatbed drivers are the hardest working truckers! |
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NewCanadianDriver wrote: Well I'm hired with an excellent flatbed company. I've never done any flatbed work ever and I just spent the last two days shunting loads of steel from a factory to the yard and back for another load. I take my drugtest tomorrow, sign all of the paperwork and should be on the road by Sunday/Monday. I would just like to say that unless you have a rolling canopy on your flatbed (I want one of those trailers), flatbed drivers are the hardest working truckers in the industry. My hat is off to you! I join the ranks of the elite (with the exception of hazmat) and am very proud to do so.
Honestly Bedbuggers work ALOT harder then flatbeds, I know that flatbeds have never had to carry pool table up 5 flights of stairs and never had to carry any pianos up up flights of stairs. So my hats off the bedbuggers as the hardest working truckers, not to mention that they have long days sometimes 8-10 of loading just to have to drive 8 hours. Thats my opinion. |
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NewCanadianDriver
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Location: Peterborough, ON
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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yoopr wrote: odd that you can drive and haven't taken a drug test
Local with a trainer..... |
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NewCanadianDriver
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Location: Peterborough, ON
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Flatbed drivers are the hardest working truckers! |
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formertrucker wrote:
Honestly Bedbuggers work ALOT harder then flatbeds, I know that flatbeds have never had to carry pool table up 5 flights of stairs and never had to carry any pianos up up flights of stairs. So my hats off the bedbuggers as the hardest working truckers, not to mention that they have long days sometimes 8-10 of loading just to have to drive 8 hours. Thats my opinion.
Well yeah that job would suck. Didn't even think of them. |
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Fozzy
Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I've hauled tires for a few years... I also hauled mixed reefer loads of candy into grocery warehouses.. I've also done flatbeds. Flatbeds aren't that big a deal. Most of the time you'll hear this claim from flatbedders :lol: |
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formertrucker
Joined: 07 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: Flatbed drivers are the hardest working truckers! |
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NewCanadianDriver wrote: formertrucker wrote:
Honestly Bedbuggers work ALOT harder then flatbeds, I know that flatbeds have never had to carry pool table up 5 flights of stairs and never had to carry any pianos up up flights of stairs. So my hats off the bedbuggers as the hardest working truckers, not to mention that they have long days sometimes 8-10 of loading just to have to drive 8 hours. Thats my opinion.
Well yeah that job would suck. Didn't even think of them.
Its ok I guess most trucker dont think of us like that, I guess we are outcast among truckers. |
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Mackman
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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Location: Concordville PA
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| what about honey dippers draging hoses and digging up septic tank lids and dealing with $&!+ all day |
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Hanged_Man
Joined: 05 Nov 2004
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Location: Montreal, QC
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Driving in residential areas is also a pain, especially with all those concrete flower pots they put in the middle of some intersections and things like that. Sometimes, in order to go wide enough to make a turn, you have to turn towards the opposite direction as much as possible, unpin the tractor while you're in an L shape, drive around the block to get to the other side of the trailer, and pin back up again... and that's the easy part. If I ever do moving, it'll be a 53' helicopter :) |
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formertrucker
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Mackman wrote: what about honey dippers draging hoses and digging up septic tank lids and dealing with $&!+ all day
That aint do hard work thats just nasty work. :lol: |
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RockyMtnProDriver
Joined: 12 Jun 2005
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Location: Cranbrook BC
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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yoopr wrote: odd that you can drive and haven't taken a drug test
Drug testing is not mandatory in Canada.
You need to be tested if you haul into the US.
Of if the company you work for hauls into the US and they make all of their employee belong to the drug testing group, whether or not the driver hauls into the US.
An employer in Canada can make drug testing a part of the employment requirements if they want. Some do, some don't. |
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yoopr
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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RockyMtnProDriver wrote: yoopr wrote: odd that you can drive and haven't taken a drug test
Drug testing is not mandatory in Canada.
You need to be tested if you haul into the US.
Of if the company you work for hauls into the US and they make all of their employee belong to the drug testing group, whether or not the driver hauls into the US.
An employer in Canada can make drug testing a part of the employment requirements if they want. Some do, some don't.
didn't know that |
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Bush Bunny
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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RockyMtnProDriver wrote: Drug testing is not mandatory in Canada.
Makes sense don't you have funny aspirin, something with Codeine?
Regarding the post - I run reefer 95% of the time and nobody seems to want to break down their loads on this forum, so I guess I have the hardest job. :wink: Swallow the words the guys, always complaining about reefer need lumpers, no, just need someone to unload, some of us don't mind....good exercise. |
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yoopr
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Makes sense don't you have funny aspirin, something with Codeine
yeah-222's which I told you about |
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wanderingson
Joined: 19 Nov 2004
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Location: Beertown, USA
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| So if a Canadian driver runs strictly in Canada,they are not subject to mandatory drug testing? :shock: |
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