Freight out of Montana?

Yeah that takes a special sidekit setup. Extra stakes, interior tarps that drape the inside of the kit, trap doors in the floor. When I was younger I hauled grain locally down to the bird seed plant. I hated getting stuck behide those flatbed. It always took the driver well over an hour to shovel that millet or sunflower seeds out of their trailer. God help you if you pulled in and there was multiple flats waiting to unload.

 

they have a setup like this


iv never personally done it. but i know people that have on a regular basis. i actually never even haul in or out of Minneapolis although i get offered loads there from time to time. no divisible load permit available on interstate in mn and cant get in and out of the citys without going on the interstate. my empty weight is too high to get a good load at only 80k lbs.

 

Yeah that would be sweet. But over here the driver shovels it out. Then bounce up to Chicago and load steel back west.

 

Lots of loads going west just gotta know who to contact. Hauled out of there little over 5 years .

 

I've hauled flour out of great falls and lots of talc moves out of the dillion area.
Doesent pay jack diddly squat tho.

 

We used to load wheat out of central and eastern Montana going down to Lewiston ID to the barge. They had tippers big enough we didn’t have to unhook our trailer. There are a few guys running grain down there out of the Idaho Falls area a little bit, but for the most part the grain has dried up in MT. They have a whole pile of elevators that can load 110 car trains now so very little leaves the state on truck.

 

I've heard it's nothing but a barren wasteland of cheap freight. Lots of lumber in Alberta running south, might have to run deadhead to get something decent.

 

Only load I ever saw of Montana that payed anything was 3 traction motors for BNSF out the glendive shop to the Gering Nebraska shop ....
The flour and talc I hauled was in a reefer when I lived there and did produce back to Butte and Missoula.
Talc and flour never paid more than a buck a mile if you could get it and sometimes I bounced all the way to cali or blackfoot Idaho for flour .
I was paid by the round but you better make your money going into montana cause you sure wont make it outbound!

 

normally when i run montana im pulling the hopper bottom depending on where i drop in Montana i will normally either bounce up to belleplains sk for urea or ill load peas or lentils back to north dakota kinda depends on the time of the year and what part of Montana. that doesn't really help a skateboard though. i know of a couple places that i haul peas and beans into that ship some out in super sacks after they clean and process them. but iv never seen them loading the super sacks on a flat normally see them loading them on dry vans or refers.

 

Gotta find the niche we never pulled a load below $2.55 pm + fsc. I moved back to Texas my buddy still pulling it as well as 4 other trucks going west weekly