[Karnajj]

Originally Posted by stevedb28

I am impressed because of the simple fact she could be like you and shut the doors and drive on, but she like me, likes the exercise, challenge, and satisfaction that comes with the job. And you get what? Exercise, only if you walk around the urinal.... I mean truckstop. Challenge? NOOOO shutting 2 doors is hardly a challenge. Satisfaction? Well, some are satisfied easily. I guess if you set low goals its not hard to achieve them. Im really not dogging van drivers. I know they have their own challenges I dont have to deal with, like grocer warehouses and peed off customers and waiting forever to get loaded/unloaded.
I just have to have more admiration for some lady getting an award doing a job that was never meant for her to do and men cant/wont do. I see I offended you, oops sorry, it was not meant to offend, it was meant to make you think.

As far as working harder or smarter well, I started my driving career driving flatbed why? I couldnt find one van company that would start me over .30cpm nor get me home every weekend. So what was the smarter decision? Ya I work harder than you, what a whole 2 or 3 hrs a day on average? Ill take the extra pay for a few hours of manual labor. Not to mention I get some money for tarping and I get paid if I wait to get unloaded more than 3 hours. And did I mention Im home every weekend? So, 6 months experience and .39cpm compared to what a max of .29 at most in a van. Ill take an average of 250.00 more per week just for some manual labor. That means a van driver making .29cpm would have to drive 850 miles more than me in order to make what I make. What was you saying about working harder or smarter. Just means that someone with same experience as me has to sit on his butt a day longer than me to get the same pay as me. And that day......Im at home

Oooooh, you are so special!!!!! I always knew you were a cut above everyone else now there is proof!!! Get over yourself. You are no better or worse than any other driver out here, just as flatbedding is no better or worse than dry van, tanker or what have you. Btw you could be working at Crete and making .02cpm more than you are making now, get paid detention after 2 hours not 3 and not have to fart around with all the extraneous bulls**t invovled with pulling a flat. Also in this day and age don't you think you are a bit sexist singling out this woman as something special just because she was doing her job? Praise her for being a truck driver period not a female truck driver.

[Malaki86]

HAHAHAHA - I really liked the post he made comparing Swift's governed speed. I blow past Maverick trucks just as often as the Swift's. As for them on their side, hey - I see flatbeds laying down and napping in the median just as often.

Money and hometime? I pull a dry van. I'm paid on percentage, so the pay varies. However, the load sitting on my truck right now is paying me about 49cpm. How much work is involved in it? Hmm, I opened my doors, backed into the dock, watched them load me, pulled away from the dock and closed the doors. When I get to the receiver I'll do the opposite. I'll leave out later today (4-5pm Sunday) and I'll be back home Monday evenening. I'll do that all week then be home on Friday for the weekend. I normally don't leave out on Sunday, but I get paid an extra $50 for leaving on Sunday.

If you enjoy flatbedding, that's great. I will never judge someone by the type of work they do. I did flatbedding the first 6 months out and decided "hell no". To me personally, it's not worth the $30 tarp pay to crawl around on top of my truck in Charleston SC in the middle of August at noon.

[devildice]

Originally Posted by Malaki86

Money and hometime? I pull a dry van. I'm paid on percentage, so the pay varies. However, the load sitting on my truck right now is paying me about 49cpm. How much work is involved in it? Hmm, I opened my doors, backed into the dock, watched them load me, pulled away from the dock and closed the doors. When I get to the receiver I'll do the opposite. I'll leave out later today (4-5pm Sunday) and I'll be back home Monday evenening. I'll do that all week then be home on Friday for the weekend. I normally don't leave out on Sunday, but I get paid an extra $50 for leaving on Sunday.

now that sounds like a decent gig.......

[Malaki86]

Originally Posted by devildice

now that sounds like a decent gig.......

The only thing it's missing is being 100% drop & hook :wink:

[merrick4]

I'm about to switch to flat bed but for me it's purely economics. I don't get into the challenge nor any other of the things the original poster put. I mean if I were rich I wouldn't be out here, so I'm here for money and to be honest to see the country which I've been doing.


They way I look at it anyone can drive a van or reefer like I do now. Maybe not great but they do it. I sit in some of these places watching whose driving a truck and I mean I see old ladies pulling van. Not that I have a problem with that, but I'm saying to my self while I'm relatively young (35) and healthy I need to cut out some of the competition.

Sure I could go to Crete, but they want me to do a 6 week course and nobobdy pays me enough to live in a truck with another man.

I know after a while driving reefer I could probably get on with a percentage based carrier and do well, but like I said while I'm young and healthy, I won't mind the work if the pay is commensurate with the what I'll be going through.

If not then I won't stay doing it, simple as that and I'll go back to pulling a reefer.

[LadyNorthStar]

So if people don't pull decks we can't be...'satisfied'...with our work? haha
I personally don't look for a job solely on what I pull. Course I've only ever had 2 trucking jobs, but if this one ends, I am not closed to pulling decks, but I'm not closed to pulling vans again either, get it? I used to pull Super B's... that was more challenging, but not more satisfying.

Bring your skateboards up here buddy, tarp up every couple days at 40 below for 4 months straight, 2 feet of snow on your tarps, or 3 inches of ice from the freezng rain, then you'll see just how satisfied you can be. hahaha

And women work pretty hard for equality, no need to make a big deal out of a woman succesfully doing her job. I personally don't like to be recognized as an accomplished woman driver, just an accomplished driver.

[LadyNorthStar]

PS: I get very personal with my loads too, every day when I sit down to eat. lol Can't get much more personal than digestion!! hahahah

[Orangetxguy]

Originally Posted by LadyNorthStar

So if people don't pull decks we can't be...'satisfied'...with our work? haha
I personally don't look for a job solely on what I pull. Course I've only ever had 2 trucking jobs, but if this one ends, I am not closed to pulling decks, but I'm not closed to pulling vans again either, get it? I used to pull Super B's... that was more challenging, but not more satisfying.

Bring your skateboards up here buddy :mrgreen: , tarp up every couple days at 40 below for 4 months straight, 2 feet of snow on your tarps, or 3 inches of ice from the freezng rain, then you'll see just how satisfied you can be. hahaha

And women work pretty hard for equality, no need to make a big deal out of a women succesfully doing her job. I personally don't like to be recognized as an accomplished woman driver, :shock: just an accomplished driver .

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: And....do the skate-boarding up there with an "A" train....not a cheesey, :mrgreen: easy to pull "B" Train !!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[LadyNorthStar]

Good call!!
A Trains are the most rare around here, and mostly just vans. Heard last night a guy pulling an a train (not a regular up here) got hit by a pick up, drunk driver, 2 dead, out here on my run, close to Ft Nelson. Hope it wasn't the truck driver that perished. Guess I will find out today.

[Orangetxguy]

Saw many "A" flats in Washington and Idaho. Only company I can think of that was big on "B" flats is Mercer Trucking in Spokane. They do lot's of lumber and just a little steel.