Wow, just now discovered this thread is still going. I'm home for the night. Tomorrow head to KCMO with salt for a MODOT. From there I run back to...
1. I always, always lock in the power divider when driving off of pavement, well except for a few county gravel roads. The ground here is very...
Yep, but this is how our company wants to deal with it. In this case it was the solenoid. I suppose you carry extra pumps or parts? Then I'd be...
This is one thing we're super lucky, not having to haul. You do not push a frame-less trailer, which is what happens when dumping into a laydown....
Really? I don't know, and it seems they would be much more stable. It just appears by the way they're constructed the bed couldn't lay over much...
Guess the pics don't show the Trailer Stands very well. Our dump trailers do not have common landing gear like hopper bottoms or freight boxes....
Yep, like I said the pics don't really reflect how it was. The tractor is sitting on an up-slope, tilted to the right. The ground is full of large...
Last Monday, I done just that. I had the bed in the air, the sand was packed against the tailgate, axles and worst of all the brake pods. I had to...
Ground is fairly solid around rock piles. On Friday they had another pile for the type of sand we were hauling in. The ground was real hard where...
We use People Net EOBR. Most of the time I get my next load assignments when I'm within 10-20 miles of my delivery destination. Rarely do I have...
Yep seen them. This past year we've had 3 trailers go down. One of them by a very experienced driver, one was blown over. The driver was dumping...
We have an asphalt plant we haul sand to, one of APAC's . I absolutely hate hauling into their sites. The wheel-loader operators are morons. They...
There are times where we MUST dump even though the rig is not sitting level. We have been hauling sand into a concrete plant where there is no...
Has any end-dump driver had their PTO Hydraulic pump go out while loaded? Recently I had this happen. What we will have to do is use another...
Well what I've had to do is log that 30min break while waiting to be loaded. Dispatch will go so far as to "recommend" doing this, however not...
End-dumps is all I've pulled, been doing that for almost 5 yrs. I haul for smaller family owned company that has 2 divisions, the other being...
Dump truck? What flavor? There's 10-wheelers, and the various semi versions, like belly-dumps, side-dumps, and end-dumps. Heck a grain-buggy is a...
As already stated it depends on the shipper (quarry, mine, ect. ). I haul out of several different ones, sometimes daily. Some are monthly, down...
Truck was in the shop more then on the road last week. That good ol' anti-smog DEF crap :biggrin_2552: Put it in the shop Thursday and they...
Yes it is a lot of hassle. Doesn't your laundry drip all over the floor? It's a wonder they weren't all froze stiff carrying them from the T/S...
