Stupid question about pulling hopper.

$10/ton isn't bad...if it's going 50 miles

I was offered 25/ton on fertalizer from catoosa to aurora last week I said what the hell happened to the $50 I used to get...they didn't have an answer gladly took the $12/ton neb city to aurora with a reload of beans in Henderson back into lincoln.

The money in grain is short haul long haul is where most go broke. Least in my area

 

We get 90 on 6 axles given a 60ft span. About the longest loaded we go is 120 miles. 1000 bushels is what almost everything is figured on for beans over 1000 on corn. Everybody around here I'd paranoid on Thursday I hit the scale at 90060lbs guy made me get off before he would scale me out over 60 ####ing pounds.

I see a lot of guys on the boards complaining about how rates are only 1.30/mile. Yea in long haul what were doing right now goes 130 miles and pays 3.00/mile loaded on 925 bushel. Yes rates are bad right now but when I can call on freight loads that pay a lot less than the grain I haul I suppose I can't complain. I have 2 major elevators I pull 98% of my revenue from and it seems as though they're not buying or selling much right now so it's tough to say how the rest of the year is going to go. I know I've got about 2 weeks of work and then it's all going to be done and gone so hopefully another contract will come up so we can keep busy if not oh well I guess.

They're talking about how fuel needs to shoot up to 4.50 or 5 a gallon to make money. And I just laugh. Yep you'll get $2.00/mile but you're going to have a fuel cost of $1.00/mile and then you're still going to ##### that it doesn't pay enough to make ends meat.

It's hilarious listening to some of these grain haulers in my area. Seems like most of them claim to run for 2.25/mile one guy on beans was scaling less than 1000 bushels same run as I was and telling me how it paid 2.30/mile to the truck. I asked him what his rate was he said 18 cents. I laughed and said huh funny how you can makeep 2.30/mile on 950 bushel when I'm only making 1.62 on 1000 bushel at .18 he said it was only 45 miles...nope on the hub it was 56 one way. Makes a big difference don't it.

That's just some of the stupidity I see daily...

 

I just got the shaft last week CVA bought stock in ag mark so now ag mark is handling the computers and marketing I don't know what they're going to do rate wise they'd better stay the same or I'm getting out of grain hauling I can tell you that much...

Anyway kansas will give us 85500 on 5 6 or 7 axles we are usually allowed to leave between 86 and 89 now that the new system is being implimented I've been forewarned 85500 and not a pound over I guess with the new system it won't let them stamp the weight out.

Don't know what kansas will give somebody for harvest nebraska is 15% of your gross. 103500 on 6 axles 109250 on 7 axles from the fields. Many times I find that to be stupid gvw on most hoppers is only 75000 or 80000. With a 7 axle setup I'd tare at 31 so in theory during harvest I could load almost 80k in the wagon given it would fit. I cringe when I see 65 and it's going more than 20 miles I #### sure wouldn't load 80 and take it 75 I'd be worried about snapping my trailer in half.