Anyone have Regional Dry Bulk Experience?

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  1. Danch

    Danch Light Load Member

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    Hey can anyone chime in with regional dry bulk experiences (SE or anywhere)? Hometime? Pro's Con's?
     
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  3. Hopper427

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    I ran regional dry bulk for Walpole inc.Its not a bad gig lots of standing in the rain cold and hot to watch pressure gauges.Depending on the load you can plug up a silo and blow off line if you pump it off with to much pressure.Its a pain to unplug .I hauled lime it sucked.
     
  4. Hopper427

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    I worked mon-Friday home from nite.Pros good pay cons always dirty and very loud
     
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  5. Hopper427

    Hopper427 Bobtail Member

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    I switched to hopper bottoms way more money.A lot less b.s. to deal with.
     
  6. Danch

    Danch Light Load Member

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    Have you heard the same from drivers at similar companies on the hometime for regional? What do you think of a dry bulk job thats cents per mile and demmurge pay only?
     
  7. Hopper427

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    I got paid 23%of load.I would want to be paid by the load and not the mile.Driving is the easy part.It may take you up to three plus hours to blow off a load.I get paid depending on the plant 15.00 a hour wait time after first hour.
     
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  8. Danch

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    Could you give me an example of the pay for an average load?
     
  9. Hopper427

    Hopper427 Bobtail Member

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    Dry bulk my biggest paying load was 50.00 and withe hopper I take a load that's 38 miles and get paid 65.00 most loads range from 75 to 110 a load on hopper I do three loads a day
     
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  10. Hopper427

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    With the tank running the same amount of loads my check was 850-950 with the hopper my check averages about 1300
     
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  11. Powder Joints

    Powder Joints Subjective Prognosticator

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    i pull dry bulk., I prefer it to refer or dry van. Unloading time varies between 30 minutes to an hour. loading time about 6 minutes.
    Home time can vary from weekly to every night. ff on the weekends. I make 28 percent, averages about 250.00 pe day. If you have more questions message me
     
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