Staying Clean while hauling grain? (hopper)

Replacement Air Pre Filter HVAC fits Peterbilt & Kenworth - 4 State Trucks

 

I’ve had those, they work for about a year then get weathered and nasty

 

Yeah, stuff has to be replaced if you want it to stay clean. When I pulled pneumatic and then hopper with mine I’d replace all the cabin filters every couple months.

 

Kind of why I like the FreedomAir’s, just brush them off and they’re good to go

 

Having an air line mounted close to the door. Blow your self off before getting back in the truck.
I wore a air filtration mask and goggles when loading and unloading anything after a while. Had a spec of fertilizer blow into my eye one day and could not see for a week...and it burned like crazy.
And chicken meal would blister my skin. I stopped feeding my dog anything with chicken meal in it after that.

 

I sat on the dock in Port-aux-Basques for two days once with a load of fish meal totes. Never seen so much gull #### in my life. Could hardly see what colour the truck was by the time I got on the boat.

 

We hauled some fish meal, both in bags and in bulk. The bagged stuff (super sacks) wasn't too bad but the bulk was a nightmare. We won't talk about the smell. Anybody that's hauled that stuff knows about the smell. It loaded out of an overhead bin and I don't care which way you pulled in, the wind would be blowing toward the cab. Turn the truck around and the #### wind would switch around too. I don't care how many times you'd wash the truck and trailers afterward that stuff would find cracks and crevices to hide in until the next day with high humidity and it would start to stink all over again,
The overhead bin required a man to be right there at the handle because the stuff wasn't consistent in moisture and would stick, bridge over, run like dry sand and then stick again.
Unloading was just as miserable. Vibrators didn't work well on our hoppers so it was a poke job and the drivers got fed up with it pretty quick. I got fed up with the dead time for loading and unloading and truck washing so I subbed the haul out to a guy in the next town. He still hauls it.
You don't want to park on the down wind side of his truck though. Or him, for that matter.

 

This isn’t my proudest moment, but I’ll share nonetheless. I was loading fish meal in Memphis a few years back. At this facility you scale, go around the building, they open a garage door, uou pull into the building under the auger, and then have to back out when finished. Simple. I was loading things were looking good, gauges were comin out alright he put the last loader bucket in the auger and parked it. He opened the garage door and gave a thumbs up, and a guy standing behind me waved me back. I rolled down the window to cut the glare from backing from inside to outside. Lo and behold they were not signaling me. They had a dumpster on a forklift and the guy was asking them if it was ok to open to garage door and take it out. I, my friends, was then smack dab under an auger of fish meal with my windows down. I jammed it in gear and got my trailer back under it. The damage was done it was everywhere. On me, all over the dash, all down the door, on the catwalk on the roof. Like @REO6205 said, the humidity brings it back out, luckily for me I was on a South Carolina loop from southern Missouri that summer. It was a long summer, and I was given the well deserving nickname of “Lord of the Flies”.

 

Oh thats nasty.