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I was just wondering what prime hauled on their skateboards?
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All kinds of Steel (lots of pipe, raw steel, steel beams for buildings), Glass, lots of coils (Aluminum coils are the most common), sheet rock, lumber is another popular load, copper plates, intermodal containers, produce (mostly onions), decorative stone, rocks/boulders. Sometimes you'll even get mixed loads for Lowes or Home Depot. These are interesting because you'll goto one of their DCs and they just stack stuff on the flatbed that the retail store ordered. It's all in boxes like you'd see on the shelf with some lumber mixed in and sometimes the occasional odd item (like ladders, chairs or the like).
They expect you to run pretty hard and the lease drivers actually make some good money (glass loads will pay $3 /mile), but it's
a lot of work. The majority of the loads that I had were all tarp loads and had steel or coils.
I would think twice about company flatbed unless you like working for free. It's not too bad of a company, they definitely won't babysit you and the longest I've ever sat empty waiting to reload was about 6 hours. The thing I didn't like was you get 1 or 2 days off a month and $10 to strap and secure 3 tarps is pathetic. I made about $600 a week, which is what I made driving local so after 2 months I quit and went back to local work, it's just not worth breaking an arm or a leg over.
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can run legal and still make money and don't have to worry about DOT sneeking up on ya.
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I agree, your don't need 3 logbooks to make money. I ran legal, but thats cause I like getting a good 9-10 hours of sleep and having some me time. I don't understand why someone would want to stay up 20 hours a day and drive for 18 of them.
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The mileage pay is what kept me away.
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Yea, I was only getting .29 cpm and I think even Swift and Werner pay better then that.