Milk Hauling Pay

The only "card" or certification that I know of is that of the man who loads the milk. I have been doing this for over 8 years and I don't have any type of "temp card", don't even know what one is. Now when I go to a farm and that ain't very often, most of the time my loads are sitting on the yard ready to go, but when I go to a farm, I do not load the milk, I stand there and watch or it is pre-loaded on another trailer and all I do is switch trailers.

 

that just depends on company i guess. most of our drivers load themselves so the company just has everyone get their weighers and samplers license. its simple.

as for the part about tough to hit 50k, with the company i drive for it would be pretty easy for someone is used to otr to make 50k. i just choose more home time over more money.

 

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picking up isnt bad and usually adds money for little work. i run a transport trailer that hooks up to the pump in the milkhouse and its pretty easy, the farm pickups with pump built into trailer at our company make an extra $20 per load but when im unloading i like to spend that time sleeping rather than cleaning pump parts. i wouldnt turn it down just because of having to load if i were you.

the only downsides to picking up for me are that it takes an hour from my 14 (if i were to go by the book) and my trailer has the "texas wash" so i have to walk across the top to close the valve at each end if the receivers dont when they finish washing.

and last question yes i absoloutly love my job.

 

I haul bulk milk and cream city to city in the northeast. I'm out 5 to 7 days, and home for one or two days. The pay is a little over $50K and my health insurance is fully paid. I like the work, but the schedule is insanity.

It is a minimum of two hours to load, and two hours to unload. The tanks are washed after every unload, and washed again at every reload. For the multitude of International sized household name brand shippers and receivers we work for this ridiculous and redundant wash scenario is a must -- no exceptions, no how, no way.

When there is not enough product to make a full load, or enough room in a tank to offload, the driver waits. My longest wait -- 33 hours - unpaid. One has to accept early on that wait time must be converted into uncompensated sleeper or off duty time.

lets just say that the milk hauling industry will turn on it's ear when EOBR come online.

Many of us choose work based upon a number of factors. I work where I work for a number of reasons I won't bore you with, but when I look at the waiting time involved, this is not exactly my dream driving job. At age 57 I'm lucky to have any U.S. based job, and that is certainly one of my issues. The US labor market in general does not like to hire anyone over 50 due to the extreme costs of our over 50 health insurance.

 

I can honestly say when I was hauling milk and then bulls the best drivers I met as far as helping a guy out were pulling a tank or bull wagon...

 

I dispatch milk hauling companies. From what I'm seeing nearly everyone is short of drivers.