Aluminum end Dump Trailer (Sand, gravel)

In my experience highway trucks and gravel don't mix well. Usually too lightly spec'd.

You'll need a wet kit installed on the truck too.

 

Depends on TX weight laws ?

I’d firm up that money because that ain’t bad for today’s market.

 

Probably need more information to make any useful recommendations on trailer types.

 

I'd do a lot more checking into the accuracy of those numbers before I worried about a trailer. Sounds like a fairytale to me.

 

As someone who took a road truck and converted it to a gravel truck this is true. It took a LOT of work to get it to a point where im not breaking stuff on a regular basis and having to swap it out with much heavier duty equipment. I.e shocks, drive line, 5th wheel removing a lot of skirts, adding new guages and switches to use my equipment and all kinds of other nonsense. And a lot of down time and money as well.

As towards pay i would absolutely say that you can make that much a day......HOWEVER that is before fuel costs and assumeing you haul your ### off all day every day. I can make that much in a day easily sure, but im usually burning almost my entire 14 and nothing has gone wrong....at all including traffic delays sweeping ect.

A more realistic amount is closer to $1200-1400 a day and that is as an OTR truck.

 

Where your hauling, what your hauling, expected number of loads, what bridges around you, type of truck, size of material, how sticky is material are the big ones. As a GENERAL rule though a 38'-42' split axle end dump with a 3 way door (swing, tail gate and coal chute) will cover about 90% of jobs and can do almost everything at least okish though have some pretty strict limitation such as no crushed cars or heavy steel scrap.

 

Trailstar, full frameless, dont even waste time on a full frame and stay away from those POS east trailers.

most road trucks are fine until ~100, 110k now a days if you don’t suck at driving, I wouldnt haul a Michigan set with them though or anything along those lines, or bring one into a landfill (#### landfills)

is this paying hourly or ton?