
Flatbed
Flatbed is open deck freight with no walls and no roof. What moves through Central Florida is mostly structural steel, lumber, pipe, drywall, roofing material and palletized building products headed for job sites around Seminole County and up through the Southeast. Because nothing encloses the load, securement is your responsibility, and it is governed by FMCSA rules under 49 CFR Part 393. In practice that means straps, chains, binders, edge protection and tarping, depending on the commodity. Compared with dry van, flatbed trades physical work for far less time waiting at a dock. Most pickups and deliveries happen in yards or on job sites rather than at appointment-only receiving doors, so detention stays low. Flatbed is where our open deck operation begins. The securement habits you build here are the same ones stepdeck and lowboy will ask for later.




