Muck Boots 'n' Slickers - Life of a Livestock Hauler

Man that sucks! I know your sick over it!!!
I know the way you take care of things.

 

Yeah, and that bend on the flange is right where the taper starts down to the rear, so it’s going to be a bear to straighten.

 

My getting by was prolly due to we did not unhook near as much as most of you may do today. Like; after I got the black trailer, I doubt it would be off once in 60-days. They greased and oil changed on a pad still hooked. Seasonal; cattle rack to reefer, so semi annually...

And; the old #12 rebuilt L190 , that I got when I started with Garrard had a new fifth wheel. The V195 had a new one. So I never had a tractor long enough to wear down.

 

Not trying to sound like a jerk or dumb but the shock mount looks bent back too. Don't know if it was like that already.

 

You are correct, and I hadn’t noticed it was bent until I took the picture.

 

MS had a 4 axle 56K gross weight law them, No twin screws honored...Not surel, but I recall in late 55 us hauling out of FL. The west coast rigs coming in, would load for Louisiana and on west,. Fl did not weigh outbound in fruit season, and AL did not even have scales. They would get someone to haul the excess across MS, stick it back on and to CA.

Guy in the Pearlington, MS scale area had a like F600 Ford cab and chassis. Seat tank. Fifth wheel up on 6x6 or 8x8 oak to get high enough to hook. I have seen it as I went to NO. Load in deep FL for CA. Run it to Mobile, Al, get the "man who hauls across scales" to hook, you, BT on apiece, meet and connect, or he pull you all the way past Pearlington. Worked in reverse.

Similar to KY and VA, neither honored a tandem trailer then. We running DD hogs from E. St Louis to BB in West Point, MS, tandem trailer.

Load full, run down to Cairo. Inquire if the portable pad on US51 to Fulton was weighing. No, turn left and climb the bridge to Wickliffe and run US51 over to Fulton,KY / S. Fulton, TN, pick up US45 and on in.
OR..
If weighing, go on out of Cairo on US62 and run it to US61 at Sikeston, MO.,US61 on to Memphis. US78 to Tupelo and US45 to WP.

VA was similar. Atlanta Metal Casket run tilt cal White 3000 gas with SA furniture vans from ATL up the east coast. Came home empty.
Lucrative, they were most helpful. Catch one SB and he would haul your excess across for say $10. Back up at a truck stop, butt to butt, sling it over and cross. Get past and redux and he go on home....

Was so prevalent a joke goes still among old heads ref "How many trucks y'all got"? Dude is southbound and hauls someone across, gets back over and is approached to help another,. Dude gets carried away and works most of the night... During this time, a couple of true casket loads go thru north. He is making his last pass when the weighmaster bellows" How many trucks does your company have. Driver is puzzled and worried but says, I don't really know. I have never been in when all of them were there. Weighmaster informs him.. "A hell of a lot, there been 6 thru here ahead of you tonite..."
Another preocular on pups. All clear west to east till TN. So, Time-DC loaded pups in Memphis, shuttled over to W. Memphis yard, Made sets and run toward OK City. And back. Into yard in W Memphis, break down, shuttle over to Memphis separately and deliver.
Where there is sumpin needing moving, some trucker will find a way to assist you.

 

I can confirm coming outta Cairo on 51 if you turn left into Wickliffe that bridge sucked. Has a hook at the bottom of it. Then you run through the bayou and stop at the BBQ stand and use the Porto John if you met a swift truck. Grab you a sandwich and head out past Fancy Farm to load. Now this guy is gonna use all your trailer plus some. I’ve come outta there at 102k, helluva nice guy and I never had any trouble but he specializes in trading cattle. Buys them off farm local and trucks them to Joplin once a week. Anyway you crawl outta there cross that same bridge and turn left…..that’s when you get to see what it is you really made of. That bridge over the Ohio ain’t got Dick on that en that crosses the big muddy. You hit them clanking ### steel plates with a a mirror over the yellow line and your right hand duals over the white line bout the time your safe in Missouri you gotta deal with that #### hook on the end of it. After you made it off it you swear fluff it I ain’t ever goin back. You wonder if I do how bad that scale on 57 would skin me up. Then by next Sunday hell it don’t seem so bad let’s go try that mess again lol.


Coming into Wickliffe from Fancy Farm they got these little signs say compression brakes strictly prohibited 1500.00 dollar fine. I never tempted them

 

I’ve rebuilt a few and never had problems. Don’t know that I have ever bought a new one except when attached to a new truck