lol yeah I just put that up there, meant to put concrete mixer. The truck in the pic is an Oshkosh, we have about 4 oshkosh, 4 phoenix, and 4 advances. Hauling mud up here is crazy busy right now, but we have to jobs going at a state college in town, one big 3 floor building, and also about a 10 floor dorm going up wont be done till next fall. We also got lots of driveways going right now because a huge subdivision got city water an sewer put in so needless to say we've all been pulling 10 to 12 hour days. An the boss never bought any of the plants out he started all of them, but he has each one under one of his relatives names so his name isnt on all of them. But I doubt ill ever work up and be able to buy him out, hes a hard *** but hes hardly ever around. Not a teamster though, kind of wish we were union. So yeah one of these slow days im sure ill be climbing in that drum and hammering away at er. An yeah im so glad I finally got the local gig, I actualy enjoy being able to punch out and go home and relax instead of in a truckstop somewhere. I would like to get a job hauling the material around, but we only got one guy running a belly dump for our sand and rock and hes pretty young and likes his job so he wont be going anywhere for awhile. He only gets paid $4 a load for material and gets paid by the ton for unloading fly ash(which the boss gets brought in on barges and put in his terminal on the other end of town) But does 4 bucks a load seem low, or is this average?
Driving the Cement Mixer
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by brinkj23, Aug 10, 2009.
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I got hourly back in the 80's. We got $5.50hr. Laborers on concrete crews were getting $7 or more!SWFL
Working in Florida is a "Tropical Depression!"
Our East coast counter parts were getting $8.50 to start and $10.50 after 90 days. They had full teamster bennies, we got the shaft! -
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$4 a load? Can he do 3 loads an hour? ($12).... A good rule of thumb is to pay approximately hourly wage so being paid by the load could be equal to whatever it takes to equal out to hourly.
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hey, glad to see that you are still enjoying the job. some days it is the best job in the world, some the worst.
we have 16 plants, roughly all of eastern ky. we don't have quarries, but haul a good bit of our materials. takes a lot of resources to run concrete and quarries both.
we have been running pretty good concidering the economy. not much trouble to get in a full week. we run 7-8 powder tankers. -
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we are pretty slow here too, we have 14 plants across southern illinois.
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As far as the monopoly thing goes, it's like that in my neck of the woods, all the concrete (plants/trucks/etc) in the area are owned by the same company.
Once the buyout happened, appointment times meant squat. They were gonna get there when they felt like it, and not a second sooner. They knew we had no choice but to order from them anyway. There's one company up north, and one company for the southern tier.Last edited: Aug 26, 2009
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Hey there....can anyone out there tell me what the meter / gauge readings are for each individual slump?
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