Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Don't let them load you hot. Meaning the product is hot, or it will stick. Also, don't load this in the rain, you'll be shoveling for days. It sounds like it wasn't fully cooked, if you were gagging at the smell, most of ours smells about the same as dog food. Now the places that you pick up at smell like rotting carcasses. But there's no avoiding that, since thats what is in the meal.

Also, a lot of places will require a washout receipt if you have hauled meal. We took a load of urea this week, and if any of the last three loads we hauled had been bone meal, we would have been rejected for carrying it.

The darn humidity plays a huge roll in how any of this stuff unloads. The urea was like rock salt, and we delivered the next morning. Hubby was not happy that he had to get out the dead blow and use it on the brand new trailer.

On the up side, the new trailer has super singles on it, and he's loving that. Pulls nicer, and we figured he picked up about .33mpg pulling it.

 

Yeah, I read about your ticket. I think they should have let you shift the load.

If you haul anything food grade for humans, you will need a wash out receipt. The reason they told us, is the oils that meat and bone meal leave in the trailer soaks into your other loads.

Hubby has hauled white corn, for tortillas, and they are very picky, also alfalfa loads and some of the food grade urea loads.

We bought a pressure washer, but thats not even good enough, you have to have a receipt from one of the big chains. Just part of the bsns. But we are used to paying for wash outs, after the cattle pot, these are relatively cheap.

 

Corn came out of Nebraska, one of those high dollar sealed loads that they make you sign you life away for. Their list of don'ts is a whole page long. Including, you cannot discuss your route with anyone. Are there corn pirates out there that we don't know about?

He only hauls out of Lyons during the winter, so he hasn't been there in a few months. LOL All the loads that he hauled out of there went to the roads departments in Iowa. Should have hauled it to Arkansas and Lower Missouri, as he was down there when the ice storm hit. They have no snow trucks down there.