When you’re hauling van trailers, you could be hauling any number of things. Is it cheesy holiday decorations for the TJ Maxx up the road? Is it furniture in a million tiny pieces designed to be put together with instructions that never quite make sense? Or maybe you’re hauling boxes and boxes of food.

Flatbeds or dry vans. Dry vans or flatbeds. What’s the best choice for you as a driver? If you’re going back and forth between both trucking options, you should carefully consider what you want your daily work life to look like and where you want to be 10 or 20 years down the road. If you don’t carefully consider the pros and cons of each, you might be very unhappy with your choice — leading to a lot of frustration that could’ve been prevented.