Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by wheathauler, May 31, 2009.

  1. PharmPhail

    PharmPhail Road Train Member

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    sitting at the ATL tag agency... getting excited to be close to back on the road again, even if it isn't in my own truck yet!
     
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  3. kwswan

    kwswan Road Train Member

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    what's the latest update on your truck?
     
  4. wheathauler

    wheathauler Trucker

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    You've been off the road too long. A person gets antsy when they are used to traveling. It's better to be on the road then worrying about your truck.
     
  5. bullhaulerswife

    bullhaulerswife Forum Leader/Admin Staff Member Administrator

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    We went through there last week. Well, actually Hoxie, but still, were really close to you. Our first load of the week went to Newport. Spent most of the week in MO and AR. Very pretty country down there. :biggrin_255:

    I got some good pictures off 65 after the state line, too.

    First time I've seen rice fields. They were cutting some, but some looked pretty green. Do they stage them? Or did the greener fields just get planted later? Sorry, don't know anything about rice, dad was a wheat farmer. :biggrin_2559:
     
  6. Big John

    Big John Road Train Member

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    Cowdoc where is it that you live?

    I would rather haul rice then cut it. We use to cut rice with a pair of Massey Ferguson combines and when it was muddy we would put tracks on them what a pain. Thank god the boss decided to spend the money and bought a pair of John Deere combines with FWD.
     
  7. Big John

    Big John Road Train Member

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    Wheathauler it is drizzly rain down here and is supposed to be that way all week. So much for washing my truck and trailer Saturday.
     
  8. wheathauler

    wheathauler Trucker

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    How you been Big John keeping busy? There's a little drizzle falling off and on... just enough to keep from harvesting beans. Little chilly too 58 out right now.

    That's seems to be my luck after washing truck and trailer.
     
  9. Big John

    Big John Road Train Member

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    Been busy, I am at home most of this week, got to do jury duty starting tomorrow. They won't pick me because I won't answer their questions like they want them to be answered.
     
  10. RW.

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    Its 65 and absolutely beautiful here today, like yesterday. One truck made 2 trips to town hauling our own beans (4 miles), the other truck sat and looked pretty all day. Not enough people cutting around here to need trucks. I mowed and weedeated the yard and checked my phone every 15 minutes, but nothing. Chance of rain tonight and tomorrow, great.


    I was on jury duty a couple years ago in the summer for one week, 6 different trials, but had to show up each morning to see if you'd be picked. I was too nice, got picked on one of them that was a trial for a speeding ticket, I should have told them to have him pay the fine and quit wasting our time!
     
  11. cowdoc

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    Big John I live in Walnut Ridge, AR. The farm is out east of town towards Light up and down the Cache River. I love working out there. Desolate,quiet, and peaceful. Lots of eagles and hawks. One big Eagle's nest in a big Cypress on a slough off the river. We also see deer and raccoons bout every day.
    Mrs. Bullhaulers wife we don't stage it per se. This year there was some rice planted in early April then the rain set in and we couldn't plant anymore til mid June. Unless the rice is salted it has trouble maturing out this late cuz it's too cool so alot of it is being cut green. We pretty much salt ours so it will dry down. It's been raining alot lately. I did get stuck once yesterday. Our IH 9400's have positrac and that helps alot.
    The beans around here were mostly planted in July and they're not maturing out either. It's been a very challenging year for the farmers around here. Much more normal year down in Luzeanna.
    Mrs. Bullhauler if you are on 63 tween Hoxie and JTown when you get to Sedgwick we've been working bout 1 1/2 miles north of there.
     
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