to all end dump haulers...

Come on up to Kansas. JK will throw you in a truck and worry about your credentials later. We are slammed busy. Feeding asphalt plants and all these job sites is the main focus. And I guess more and more salt orders are rolling in and feed season is just around the corner. Is that next hurricane heading your way @Trashtrucker1707 or too early to tell?

 

Man I wish I had the traveling shoes sometimes and could just drop everything and move up to a good market like Kansas City, sure would be nice. Who am I kidding though, I’m deathly afraid of change . As far as the hurricane, it’s still so far out, I try not to pay much mind to them until they’re close, I can tell you this though, I’m tired of hurricane season, that is one of the many reasons I would like to exit FL.

 

Just been running steady. Rates were down some for a bit, but the runs an keeping busy seemed to make up for it. Took a extra day off over labor day. Was supposed to get Friday off but ended up with Thursday off instead. Then worked Friday an home that night. Left back out Monday night. The boss may have us an hourly gig lined up for the middle of the month just running around Iowa from a field to an elevator till it's done. If I get it, it will be ag exempt an however many hours I can get a day till the elevator quits receiving. That'll be a real change of pace.

 

Around the corner? I already been hauling a steady diet of feed loads.

 

Yup, when all they have for a loader is just one step above a riding lawnmower this is what you get. We've had to do the "turn around and load the other side" routine more than once.

 

Always a favorite. That and the old loaders that take 3 cans of ether and 2 stages of the rosary to start. And then “go ahead and park up hill a bit, this thing doesn’t have brakes.”

 

Yeah, that part about the brakes sounds familiar. We get a lot of that in the woods loading logs. When you back into the slip and the loader lays a log down parallel with the truck for a "brake log" you know you're in for it.

 

Laid up tonight outside of atlanta, deliver in anniston tomorrow. Pretty rough day, blew a tire on the way up, won’t be in until Saturday, but I wanted to get y’all’s opinion on something. Heading south this morning the truck in front of me kicked up a slung cap, the whole #### thing, it was early so I didn’t see it until it was sparking its way towards me, I was in the middle lane and didn’t have an out so I had no choice but to run it over to the best of my abilities. All the vitals of the truck were fine, got to where I was going and checked things out, a little crack on the inner bumper otherwise no big deal but it seems like as the day has worn on there is an obvious pull left in the steering, I looked at the front axle and it looks “off”, do you guys think it’s possible that striking that blow out this morning could’ve knocked things out of line?

 

Oh yes. Had the same thing happen to me years ago and it full on broke 2 axles. Dont drive it. Red tag and get it inspected. Could have bent an axle, a frame join broken, u-joint, a tie rod or any number of other things.

 

Yea it's possible. I clipped a cow in South Dakota here while back at 35 or less an it was basically just the cow glancing off the bumper off the right side. Barely even felt the hit, yet my front end now pulls to the right.