O/O Container Hauling

I drive around Chicago as well. I've seen three containers either blow their tires or have their brakes smoking during one 80 mile trip. It's like they never heard of a pretrip inspection.

 

Pretrip consists os making sure the gear is up a few inches and it has tires, what else you need?
I've done cans for years and the biggest problems were tires. Last time around I hauled over-weight cans with grain. (Usually grossed around 92-93,000) Tires were always a big consideration and when loaded, I ran no faster then 60, but usually only 55/56. (And I kept a spare tire on the truck along with jacks to change a tire if I needed to.)

 

You are a horrible person and should feel bad about it.

 

I've been hauling cans out of Miami and port Everglades for over a year and I can tell you guys the money is just not there, you can get a good week follow by two dead slow weeks, is a dead end I'm hitting the road pretty soon

 

What are you going to do next?

 

It doesn't even pay much to the carrier. The only way they make money is by having volume.

 

DOT is building a scale house next door (literally) to the main entrance of BNSF Elwood....

Hitting the road??...where's the $$$ in that right now....you got direct shipper contracts lined up?????..

Just curious, good luck!!!

 

I haven't been to Elwood in awhile, but where is that going to be built....n lot 16?

 

Across the street, between Cargill and LPCHI...

 

So I thought I posted a follow up, but I guess not. That area is already seriously messed up. I've seen it so backed up it was out the ingate down baseline and half mile down arsenal road. Putting a scale on baseline is really going to add even more to the traffic problem.