Trucking guides for owner operators, sourced and dated
Plain guides for carriers who run their own trucks: what loads pay, where freight comes from, how each trailer works, how to secure a load, when a load goes oversize, and the weight rules that decide it all. Every rule cites its source with the month it was checked.
Filter by topic or by your equipment, or search. Reference tables, like permit costs and escort rules by state, are marked. Guides still being written show as coming soon. For quick answers with your own numbers, use the calculators, and for terms, the glossary.
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Rates and money
Flatbed rate per mile
What open-deck loads pay, sourced and dated.
Coming soon / Reference table
Flatbed truck driver salary
How open-deck drivers are paid.
Flatbed shipping rates
What moves the price of a flatbed load.
Flatbed owner operator
Starting and running your own flatbed.
Flatbed truck insurance
Coverage open-deck carriers need.
Flatbed truck leasing
Leasing a flatbed: costs and traps.
Is flatbed trucking worth it
The honest pros and cons.
Freight and loads
Flatbed Dispatch: Tarping Pay, Securement and Rate Talk
How open-deck loads get found, priced and booked.
Flatbed vs Step Deck: Which to Run with Your Dispatcher
Which deck earns more, and on which freight.
Flatbed trucking companies
How open-deck carriers are organized.
Flatbed freight
What moves on flatbeds, and why.
Flatbed loads
Where flatbed freight comes from.
Rgn trucking companies
How RGN carriers find and price work.
Flatbed broker
Working with open-deck brokers.
Step deck loads
Freight that needs the lower deck.
Flatbed shippers
Who ships on open deck.
Flatbed driver safety statistics
Falls and securement violations data.
Coming soon / Reference table
Equipment
Flatbed truck
Types, uses and specs of the flatbed.
Coming soon / Reference table
Conestoga truck
The rolling-tarp trailer and its freight.
Lowboy truck
Low decks for tall, heavy machines.
Step deck truck
Two deck heights and the loads they suit.
Rgn truck
Removable goosenecks for drive-on loads.
Flatbed vs step deck
Deck heights, lengths and payloads compared.
Coming soon / Reference table
Non cdl flatbed truck
Running open deck under the CDL line.
Lowboy hauling
Planning heavy equipment moves.
Rgn trailer vs lowboy
Which low deck fits the load.
Dry van trailer dimensions
Inside sizes, doors and pallet counts.
Coming soon / Reference table
Reefer trailer guide
Units, temperatures and reefer freight.
Power only trucking guide
Pulling other carriers' trailers.
Car hauling business guide
Starting a car hauling operation.
Dump truck business guide
How dump work is priced and run.
Tanker endorsement guide
The N and X endorsements explained.
Hot shot trucking guide
Hotshot rigs, rules and freight.
26 ft box truck guide
Running a 26 ft box truck for profit.
Securement
Truck tarps
Lumber, steel and smoke tarps explained.
Load securement equipment
Straps, chains, binders and what each holds.
Hauling steel coils
Coil racks, chains and the rules.
Truck binders
Ratchet and lever binders compared.
Flatbed dunnage and v-boards
Protecting cargo and straps.
Flatbed load securement
Tie-down rules from FMCSA Part 393.
Coming soon / Reference table
Flatbed tarping systems
Rolling and automated tarp systems.
Flatbed truck fall protection
Working safely on the deck.
Cargo securement rules by commodity
Commodity rules in FMCSA Part 393.
Coming soon / Reference table
Flatbed tarp sizes and weights chart
Tarp sizes and weights in one chart.
Coming soon / Reference table
Oversize and permits
Oversize trucking
When a load goes oversize and what follows.
Oversize loads trucking companies
Who hauls oversize, and how they work.
Load board for oversize loads
Finding over-dimension freight.
Oversize freight
The over-dimension loads carriers haul.
Wide load truck
Width limits, signs and escorts.
Pilot car load board
How escorts find oversize work.
Heaviest loads ever hauled by truck
Record moves and how they were done.
Coming soon / Reference table
Oversize load permit costs by state
Permit fees for every state.
Coming soon / Reference table
Oversize load travel restrictions by state
Curfews and holiday bans by state.
Coming soon / Reference table
Pilot car escort requirements by state
When each state requires escorts.
Coming soon / Reference table
Oversize load signs, flags and lights requirements
Signs, flags and lights rules.
Coming soon / Reference table
Heavy haul route survey checklist
What to check before a heavy move.
Coming soon / Reference table
Rules and weights
Flatbed dimensions and weight capacity
Deck sizes and legal payloads.
Coming soon / Reference table
Tractor trailer tire pressure
Pressure, load and safety.
Frost laws by state
Seasonal weight limits by state.
Coming soon / Reference table
Federal legal truck size limits chart
Federal width, length and weight limits.
Coming soon / Reference table
Load offer
Pickup → delivery, miles, rate, accessorials
The rate con comes from the broker straight to you.
Reading up before you run? We can book the loads
Every trailer type, every load your call.