Looking for advice to go heavy haul....

It's a bit unsettling to hear a fuel hauler has shoddy equipment, you may like heavy haul, it's a lot more challenging, lots of regs and permits to get used to, but it's a whole different form of trucking. If you are used to a tanker, oversize should be no problem for you. I don't think pay is any better, but at least you don't have to worry about blowing up. I'd go for it.

 

sounds like you got nothing to loose. Go for it.

Maybe you can get some wrecker experience while you’re at it.

Pay is going to depend on location. All the company drivers who move big iron here are operating engineers making 38 an hour i believe. It’s a six figure job.

If these guys don’t pay that great stick it out for a year or two and aim for the big bucks.

 

Go into the flatbed subsection, at the top of the page click heavy haul and study up.

 

You should go ask the owner/manager. He or she would probably really respect you for doing that, and no two companies are doing the same type of work. As for pay that again depends on the company, I do heavy haul, gravel, snow, fuel, etc. Fuel hauling pays the least, but is also the easiest, then gravel/snow/salt pays more than fuel, and heavy haul pays the most, but obviously not everyone makes the same in heavy haul with me either. More experienced drivers, with more years seniority, also get the larger and more difficult loads. My heavy haul drivers can make as low as $58/hr and up from there. It takes a lot of time and training to be able to comfortably load, and move anything. You mentioned that its just four chains and go, so they must be moving small and simple loads for it being so called heavy haul.

 

Yep, the 4 chains and go means small simple stuff, drivers pay is probably going to be close to the same as running a flat, but may be a good place to get your foot in the door and learn a little about rgn's.

 

It really is a good idea to ask the source for information. Frequently I have people who stop by for a 20 minute chat about work, if they strike me as having a spark in them, I will often ask them for a copy of their resume and drivers abstract. Much more initiative shown than the ones who email their resume, or simply drop it off with the receptionist.

 

I never ran enough trucks that I had to hire drivers off of a resume. I stayed small enough that I could hire drivers that I knew well and what their work ethics and history was.
In fact I usually hired a driver, then bought the truck for them to drive.
Every once in a while I would get the notion to buy more trucks and get bigger. but when I did I would just go stand by and watch a fuel island for a few minutes and get over it.