OUCH, And you are mostly local. Would have to have a minimum I guess to just leave the house.
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We run 43X72X102 Wilson's. The bosses like em cause they're easy to load. Only prob is some of the old pits are tight and the inside scales at Riceland are tight. Just gotta be sure ur straight fore you start on. We had a guy hang a crank stem on that inside scale. Luckily that 1 wasn't on me.
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70-80% hispanic.
I've travelled through SW Kansas frequently and its amazing how that region has changed. Little Mexico. Where I live here in Oceana County (W MI) our Hispanic population has doubled in just a decade. Fruit processors like Peterson Farms have brought them. Once a few families from a certain village in Mexico come in they call their friends and relatives and within a few years thousands of them come. The processors here in the states even advertise in Mexico for help. Something like ten or twenty percent of Mexico's poplulation has immigrated north. A lot of it is due to NAFTA which took away the subsidies for agriculture and wiped out the small farms in Mexico. Now the Mexican tortilla is made w/ American corn but we have their displaced farmers up here. -
Yep. It's getting bad. About ten or so years ago, a couple of trucking company owners in western Kansas decided it would be a good idea to hire a bunch of latinos and have them haul soybean meal for Cargill from Wichita to western Kansas. It worked pretty good for them until they learned the business and eventually became their competition. Now, neither as big as they once were, and the rates heading out west and back with soybean meal are just plain pathetic. The soybean meal line in Wichita is just full of drivers who can't speak any English, and they're not shy about it, either.
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I was quoted a rate from Guymon to Wichita that was horrible. Eventually it will get too cheap even for latinos. On the bright side there may be some grain moving locally in March.
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Called on a trailer the other day & it was the guys dispatch office because the guy who owns the trailer is Turkish Russian who came over to the U.S. three years ago. Anyway agreed to meet them, told them which exit to go to & turn left, the truck stop is right there...Then I realized the exit I told them to go to was also a truck stop exit on the Interstate that crossed 20 miles back. (Exit 82) When I called to ask him which way he was going all he could say was "I see you exit 82 Yes?"slabrunner and RW. Thank this. -
I know exactly what you are talking about. That is tight there.
We have a friend that has a spread, but it doesn't do him any good, because of Iowa. Most of hubbys miles are IA miles, so a spread would do us no good. Wasted money basically.
Hubby was skeptic about the 102 until he got his new one. He loves it now. Just have to watch closer when backing in.
Went with hubby last week for three days, finally got the truck and trailer washed, she looks better. Probably had 150lbs of mud, salt and crud from the roads on her. We did the "do it yourself" wash at Lamar Mo then drove over to Walmart across the street and let her sit to dry. LOL Its amazing what you miss, that you can't see until its dry.
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Oklahoma passed some mighty tough illegal immigration laws about a year or so back. They just migrated 1 state north.montana cowboy, Big John, dairyman and 2 others Thank this.
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