Milk Hauling

Milk moves all over the country now. A guy I used to haul cattle with dispatched for a milk hauler in Garden City KS and they have sleeper trucks running everywhere hauling back to the cheese plant. But it all pays by weight so a big bunk like the OP wants wouldn’t be feasible.

 

lmao savage man

 

Just my 2 cents, a milk hauling company will never have a sleeper that big, its just too heavy, they are always hauling max weight. And not to mention its around $80k just for the sleeper. Drivers that have sleepers that big are usually hauling permit loads or really light freight such as moving companies.

 

How far? Also what's average length of haul?

 

Milk used to be a regional thing. A local truck would pick it up at the farm, and take it to a local processing plant. Several factors have changed that. Many smaller farms are going under, creating the "mega" farms that usually have their own tankers. What's happened, is many cheese plants have closed, making OTR transport a necessity. Not sure how long milk can stay in a tanker, they are insulated, but I'd have to think, it doesn't travel well for long. I'd say, at most, an overnight trip, but not much more. Plus, milk never really paid that much, overloads are common, and the plus was you were home every night, that and that cutie at the Reese farm you'd run into,,

 

Around the west they pull doubles with sleepers. A lot of times they'll be outta hours or something and spend the night at or around the unload.

Then there's the times where the unload breaks down. And they might be stuck 2 or 3 days. Or have to wait a few hours to unload.

 

If you only haul milk from plant to plant, maybe. Lots of milk hauling is picking up milk at farms and taking it to processing plants. Lots of milk farms are small and barely able to handle standard trucks.

 

Do you and your wife have CDL driving experience?

 

Where I live in MN, milk haulers are given extra weight with extra axles as they are hauling farm products. 97,000 is common with a 7 axle tractor trailer. Viesmann from Gary SD moves milk and liquid oils and bulk sugar all around. None of the trucks have oversize sleepers etc.