schools that teach flatbed basics

[techdogg]

I have found 2 schools that teach flatbed securement in an 8hr course as well as heavy machinery operation.How many flatbed operators get the chance to haul with floats or is this a specialty area?

[bikerboy]

float was the first flatbed i ever pulled, floats are always Oversize loads mainly.

[ralph]

TechDog, are they charging MORE for this training? If so, pass on it. I'm NOT a fan of a new driver starting doing open deck work. There's enough for a newbie to learn without being concerned about load securement and whether or not a coil is going to stay with them the whole trip.

That being said, If you've got a burning desire to tug a deck there are some companies that will take a newbie and train them how to do it properly. This is NOT some 8 hour course watching videos, it's weeks that you run with a trainer and learn to secure and tarp everything under the sun...sometimes the securing is the easy part.

Load securement is commodity specific in many circumstance and EXTREMELY interpretive in the eyes of the law. While MANY still believe that the load securement regs pertain ONLY to open decks...dinosaurs!

Here's a good interpretation of the NORTH AMERICAN load securement regs...key work interpretation.

www.highwaystarmagazine.com scroll down and click on the link below "cargo securement drivers' handbook"

[Pauly]

I hope these schools will each safe way to tarp and climb onto a flatbed trailer thing guy we don't have rack in tarp trailers anymore the main thing is to tarp the load safely because a long way to own or in to a tarp for you to ground