Flatbed Variety

Delivered 2 excavators today, this is the second one.

90' rail flatcar going to be used as a temporary bridge.

Moved a little tonka truck today.

Hauled this utility pole to the galvanizing plant today.

Here's a load of solid square aluminum bars that I picked up in Cressona, Pennsylvania and delivered to a Thyssen Krupp facility in Acworth, Georgia.

We don't bump too many docks with a flat-bed. They just open up those big old buildings and we roll right on inside to get unloaded.

The last few days we have been busy moving those concrete box culverts around. But I did get a pic of the second load yesterday. And I had to take it across this to get turned around.

It's bridge beam season again... I thought you all might want to see what happens when the beam gets to the site. We had to unload these at 10 pm but we can't travel after dark so it is show up around 6:30pm and grab a hotel room.

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I know it's not a flatbed but what about a sand can.

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HaHa!

I guess that means Pat was having a "devil" of a time hauling those bridge beams!

Here's a look at some more of the "shiny" stuff that I pull out of the SAPA plant in Cressona, PA. This load went to a Ryerson Metals warehouse in Greenville, South Carolina where the loading docks were designed for very short trailers! My paperwork had notes on it that said the material must be loaded 12 feet back from the nose of the trailer - I pointed out to the plant personnel that it wasn't loaded that way, but they didn't seem phased at all. Turned out that those instructions are on there for a reason, and not only that, but those instructions are for a 48' trailer, and I was pulling a 53 footer. They unload at this place with overhead cranes and they only have enough room to move forward enough to get the material off from the front of a 48 foot trailer if it is loaded 12 feet back from the front. So, what did I do? Well, I backed in to their dock and they unloaded what they could, then I pulled out and turned her around and pulled into the loading dock forward - that gave them just enough reach to get the last section of material off. Fortunately the overhead crane could move sideways also, so I didn't have to sit there with heavy loads of metal hovering over the top of my cab!