{"id":18003,"date":"2025-01-16T23:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/considering-flat-bedding-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T23:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:54:30","slug":"considering-flat-bedding-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/considering-flat-bedding-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering flat bedding&#8230;. | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tI recently started flatbed after hauling wood chips for years which was basically sitting in a truck with very little manual labor. In my opinion unless you are wanting more work and challenge in your occupation you probably don\u2019t want to do it. <\/p>\n<p>I enjoy it, but I am 34 and in quite good physical shape. Also I always wanted to do flatbed work. I can guarantee you though that tarping is not for the faint of heart. I can lug a tarp with 8 foot drops to the top of my load on a ladder, but not many do that. I have been tarping in dumping rain in the cold and took my shirt off once I got back in to dry it with my defrost heater. Also wind makes it a real pain. <\/p>\n<p>I try to take pride with my tarping and make it look crisp, but honestly sometimes if the load is odd shaped enough and I\u2019ve spent too long already I kind of figure as long as it isn\u2019t flapping too much it will have to work. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s enjoyable for the most part, but if you start out with a bad attitude about tarping you might as well never start because it will give you little reason to change your attitude. <\/p>\n<p>As far as pay goes, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s much better than any other kind of trucking but maybe others would disagree.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/considering-flat-bedding.2514865\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently started flatbed after hauling wood chips for years which was basically sitting in a truck with very little manual labor. In my opinion unless you are wanting more work and challenge in your occupation you probably don\u2019t want to do it. I enjoy it, but I am 34 and in quite good physical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}