Question about Hauling Hay with Percentage Pay

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  1. KnightRider

    KnightRider Bobtail Member

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    I called about a company here in Ohio yeasterday that hauls hay mainly for race tracks around jersey and long island, Ny. They told me they pay
    percentage pay, 30% gross revenue. Home on weekends and sometimes in the middle of the week. Now what I was wondering was, What's it like hauling hay? I'm assuming it's flatbed so is there tarping envoled? or does it depend on the company? and, what's the money like on percentage pay? Thanks in advance.
     
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  3. notarps4me

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    When I haul hay I get the big round bails. We haul the regular ones as well, but I haven't pulled any. They want the square bails tarped at my co because it helps to hold them down. I got a load of round bails one night late at night out in the sticks. They wanted it tarped and I told them I was not tarping it. There was no lights. The guy that loaded me had no lights on his tractor. Used his pick up lights to see what he was doing then he took off.

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    This is what they look like strapped down. When they are first put on they are about 10 feet taller.
     
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  4. broncrider

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    large squares are easy, 6 rows of 3 on both sides, puts you about 13'10", two starps over each row and yer gone...you need a large tractor to move them buggers

    small squares are a whole different animal, v boards are used, as well as straps front to back, and probally a tarp to help hold the little buggers on....dont know i wont hual them with my truck, but i have hualed many of them with my pickup and trailer

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  5. Sabine in Mo

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    we've hauled the large square ones like in the picture above several times. They had to be tarped, high priced hay for high priced horses. We loaded out of Nebraska, South Dakota to the east coast and to Texas.

    The guys were we loaded helped. One would go up there, spread the tarps, after we secured the straps, and then bungee the crap out of it, or it may come off.....oh yeah, it did too one trip. Fun to have to get up on top to resecure it.

    Hay is quite heavy, make sure you hit a scale as soon as possible.

    We always got unloaded quite fast, never much wait.

    The loads we hauled last summer paid somewhere from $1.90-2.00 a mile. Not our truck, but I got the check from the guy that sold it to deliver to my company, so I so what we got.
     
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  6. _ton bundle

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    30% sounds really low to me. Are you an O/O or company driver?

    I haven't heard of company drivers on percentage, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Also, I don't care how expensive the hay is, I can't believe that it is specialized enough to warrant the rates needed to make money off of percentage. I would only go on percentage if I were hauling a high value commodity on a specialized trailer for round trip money. Something here doesn't add up to me, but correct me if I am wrong.

    Also, if you're going to be delivering on the island, they'd better be paying the tolls, or you'll be working for free!!
     
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  7. bfork1

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    if you are going to haul for tracks then you will haul regular square bales (small) and some companies use vans as well as flats. I cant remember but i think you can get 7-900 bales on a flat or van. price per bale prob like $8 up there.
     
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  8. dekok25

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    i am not sure how heavy those large squares you where hauling, but the ones I get for my cows I can load and unload 2 at a time with just a skidloader as well as the guy that I buy the large squares from
     
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  9. dekok25

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    I would hate to buy hay at that price for a small square. The alpha alpha I buy that has a high relative feed vaule and high protein content has only cost me at the most $4/ bale. And horses do not need that high quality of hay.
     
  10. KnightRider

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    The company is still running my backround info so I haven't heard anything yet. But I do appreciate all the info and the pic from broncrider, I was actually wondering what a load of hay looked like on a truck. This would be something new for me if I get this job and _ton bundle, I read on another thread here a driver only making 25% gross revenue. So lets say I pull a load of hay worth 1,000 (wild estimate) I would gross 300 on just that one load. Hmm yeah now i think about 30% is kinda low lol. Oh well I need a job. Thanks again for all the info.
     
  11. RickG

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    The gross revenue you'd get 30% of is not the value of the product . It's the rate per mile the carrier gets . If the carrier is paid $1 a mile you get $.30 a mile . You need to know about loading/unloading pay .
     
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