to all end dump haulers...

I had something similar happen a few years ago I absolutely BLASTED an aluminum ladder that fell off a construction pickup. Like @Arctic_fox said it annihilated a tie rod.

 

Appreciate the responses fellas, all the visible components look good to me but I’m still going to have it checked out when I get back to town.

 

@motocross25 any idea what a hard running driver can make per year at JK? Or what the top driver made last year?

Do y’all have driver facing cameras? Governed speed? Autos or manuals?

I’m not looking but if I were they look like a pretty decent fit. Good looking equipment is something that’s important to me, I don’t have any end dump experience, only dump trucks. But I’ve been around end dumps growing up at House of Rocks and working many years on the loaders at Semco in Belton.

 

I can’t directly comment on earnings, but having been in the game for a while they’re definitely one of the few elite fleets running out here, CDJ as well but I don’t believe they hire out your way. One big benefit to dump work, minimal to no wait times, I’m always moving.

 

Hey sorry dude I didn’t see this. I’m on track for 80k this year and I’m local. The road guys are I would say 90k and the guys that see most of the grinding balls for Colorado are flirting with 100k. I know my friend who just retired exclusively did grinding balls and rock back Monday-Friday and he said his W-2 last year was 102k.

We do have cameras that face the driver but they are only tapped into if there is an incident then they can review the footage. They are not watching and due to the rough terrain we get into they do not even send alerts for “events” or anything. The road trucks vary most are 73 mph and the couple 4 or 5 that do the grinding balls I think are set at 77 mph. Every truck is an 18 speed manual. MOST are glider kit Cats, I have one of the few Cummins. They hire people all the time with no end dump experience so that won’t be an issue at all. There’s a 5k sign on bonus and then we get safety bonuses every quarter and they go up with seniority. Insurance is pricey but it’s good. And it’s comparative or less to what other companies have. It’s just the cost of insurance. Week vacation paid after a year and then 2 after 3 years and then I think 3 at 7. But if you need off for anything they never give me any trouble. I mean it’s easily the best place I’ve ever worked. They just send you your dispatch and if you need em, call em. But they definitely leave you alone. I called my dispatcher Friday just to catch up and make sure he was still among the living, I hadn’t Heard from him personally in like 2 weeks. No front radar, no side beeping crap and no Qualcomm. We have tablets that use BigRoad. Off Duty/On Duty/Drive/Sleeper. Those are your options. It’s a cinch. Anymore questions just ask.

 

I appreciate the response.

any sort of retirement? Any forced routing or fuel solutions? Where do y’all fuel? I guess you are paid percentage? If so are you paid anything for dead head miles?

 

@motocross25 thats awesome you guys can make that kind of money and drive the equipment you do, I pray I can find that one day. Florida is not exactly a hot bed for end dump companies, I do about 64K a year and that’s having worked here for 11 years, I enjoy the work though so I just deal with it for now.

 

Yes I’m sorry! They do offer 401(k) after a year. I am doin some catching up so I’m not contributing yet but I am starting in January. And I forgot the match but I can look in my handbook Monday. No forced fueling, they don’t care where you get it you don’t even have to go in for a receipt. We have 2 fuel cards ComData and FleetOne. Nope no routing or anything like that. Just “pick up here, dump it there, safe travels”. We are percent. It’s 24% for 30 day probation, then 25% for a year and then 26%. There’s never anything crazy bounce miles, a few times they’ll be a hot load we have to go after or something but they build it into the rate. And like DDG and some of the lighter stuff is either a flat rate or they pay on a 23 ton minimum. We get zorba at some places for Anniston AL and it pays 23 ton but lot of times you can only get 18 or so. They don’t really have a set in stone breakdown or detention policy it’s kind if a case by case basis and then they’ll take care of you.

 

Yea I’m really happy with it I enjoy the work and it pays great so that’s a bonus! They have a lot of long standing customers and haul a variety of stuff some of it rather pricey so the rates are always decent. More often than not when I get my dispatch I’m surprised with how well something pays. There is some stuff that doesn’t pay fantastic, but it’s to get you down to the stuff that does. I know you’re liking running local but we go down to Florida a lot if you’re wanting a change. They’d snatch you right up!

 

Florida would be a 2 week dispatch, that’s a no go for me, I like my mix of local and some longer runs, actually unloaded in anniston yesterday. Not sure where life is bringing us, our house is currently on the market here but real estate has certainly slowed down a bit down here, but our prices are astronomical as well, I really don’t know what the allure to live in Florida is.