Looking for Moffett/Flatbed ideas.

Are there people out here doing these gigs and getting paid well? I got my start with this sort of driving and its still one of my favorite types. I enjoyed the piggybacks more than the trucks frankly! I have over 5 years experience and was quite good on the piggyback. If I can come up with a decent employer or maybe even start my own business doing this, I'd very much be interested. Scouring the internet for information on these unicorns seems to be just that... looking for unicorns.

Working for Lowes was a slow painful death... I imagine Home depot would be the same. The local building supply type places never pay very well, and break your body. At one point in time I had (but sadly lost) a guys contact info who delivered the block to Lowes and others places. They seemed to pay well, but the hours if memory serves were crazy long. I've thought about Sod places... not sure how they pay, nor if they work year round. Even the Pods moving services places seem to sometimes use them in their supply chain. Once again hard to find info. Id want to keep it near the Kansas City area.

I'd love to hear from other drivers perspectives on this. Even if you don't feel like sharing in the thread, feel free to shoot me a message. Any ideas? Any companies seeking drivers with this sort of experience?

Thanks!

 

I appreciate the insight on Sod suppliers.

I too worked at Lowes twice. One time much better than the other. The pay was decent. Still not what id like though... and yeah I attribute all the failings of setups like that to basically retail stores with retail workers trying to do big-boy work with often times... undertrained teens and the like as said workers. Throw in several levels of incompetent management and obtuse company and/or store policy and Bam! You've got a recipe for success!

 

Thank you very much for the input. It looks like I have a trillium staffing local even. Hopefully they're the place you speak of. I shall get a hold of them.

I agree its quite fun, the only other form of trucking I've enjoyed similar amounts is being a yard dog. For different reasons obviously. I really miss situations though like the second picture you posted. There is something very cool about being out in the middle of nowhere, Just you and your machines. Perhaps a crazy way to get in to the site, and a crazy way to get out... etc. etc.

Thanks again for your response!

 

Yeah man, it really does seem to be overlooked. That's what I've been doing now for the last couple of years myself. Lots of good things about it. No traffic, No Scales, No Dot, No cops. I personally right now have really good days off. It and the moffett/flatbed combos are my two favorites for sure. Really if I could do either of these and make bank Id be happy. I'm doing around 50k a year now, The closer I could get to doubling that would be nice!

When looking at trillium, so far no openings in my area, but ill definitely keep my eyes on them.

 

Yeah I got my start in one of these stores. At the time I think I started out at around 12/hour fresh out of cdl school in 08. Went as far as 16/hour with them. Anytime i see similar postings locally on indeed I'm basically making more as a hostler, without the back breaking labor included. That said I'm always keeping my eyes open for a honey hole to open up.