Staying Clean while hauling grain? (hopper)

Have the shipper receiver load and unload it , stay in the truck and watch the lights , the railroad wont touch anything , so why do drivers get the shaft Again!

 

I don't know of one. The dust doesn't just come in on your clothes, it comes in through every little crack and crevice it can. It's hard to keep the dust problem under control pulling a hopper.

 

I do fertilizer here in about 3 weeks , it makes all of us break out , load in a silo and we unload in the airspreader in the field boss says it's ok to breath it , hhhmmmmm.

 

You can’t keep the dust out. I hauled sand in Super-B grain trailers and it was the worst. I think you’d have to start taping up all the vents and cracks all over the truck. I’d never do sand again. Maybe.

 

Funny how that's supposedly ok to breathe but it eats any metal that isn't stainless.

 

Exactly! I used to pick up fertilizer in Boonville MO and take it to Stuart IA. I forget now the name or the acronym for that stuff. DAT or MAT or ZAT or something I dunno but that stuff was brutal. You’d open your tarp to unload and it’d just take your breath away. We’d end dump it out of the coal chute and I’d tie a handkerchief around my face the stuff stunk and burned your eyes. Everybody up there looked at me like I was some sort of pansy but I don’t care. Breathing that dust in isn’t gonna add inches to my #### so it’s not worth the gamble.

 

Sounds like MAP to me.

 

DAP ......Dry Urea is what I hate hauling it makes me break out in hives.. I always just start taking Beniadryl if I know I have a load of that to haul