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

No fats. Usually 36 to 42 is a load here up to 1300/1400 lbs. it’s common to gross over 90 with em. With those ol 50 ft tandams we’d just split em half and half. Lots of guys with a 53 spread will go 2/3 15/15 and 6. They load the tail light due to the claim they unload easier cuz the big ######## got more room.

I always put 7-8 on the tail and split the rest by 2. I’ve loaded in Dodge City and went to souderton Pa and never had any trouble.

 

Lol that's why it's always a different challenge. Up here fats are 1900 lbs or there abouts. There just ain't room for more.

 

Amazing how different things are between here and there.

I’ve seen a few loads of fats close to 1500 a piece but those they usually drop the head count. I can count on 1 hand the times I’ve grossed a 100k with a cow wagon

 

I was talking to the boy that was driving that loaded corn truck that got hit by the train a few minutes ago. It in deed did break the frame in to. But never broke the airlines. How does that happen?


I didn’t really believe it but if you look at the pic they are still hooked

 

I bet the deer road hunters had a great season!

 

@wore out
Soderton…good ol mopac….course reckon you know it as JBS.
All the cow guys I know quit goin in cuz Pa Ag always hanging out checking and JBS does turn in inbound scale tix nowadays
Course they’ll load 26 combos of trimmings out to the rendering plants….bout 23-24 a combo
But don’t try to get in the scale to check
It’s mostly megas lately and couple smaller outfits outta the buck eye
I still load at the veal plant up the street

 

I don't know, because I would never do such a thing, but a former employer got caught and the fine as I recall was $1000 for the first offense. That was shortly after the dyed fuel deal started.

 

MoPac mostly but I remember it used be something else to. Moye or maybe Moyer for the life of me i can’t remember.

JBS has killed it I about wouldn’t haul for them at the last though one of the last loads I pulled went in to Souderton.

I wore Cargill in Wyalusing out for a bit. I always went to the holding yard in Rome. I’d get off a 86 at Nichols.


They is another packer over there off a 80 someplace it’s been 15 years since I been in there. We’d get off at a SAPPS that was on North side of the big road there. Rode out a snow storm of epic proportions there once I can’t remember what the name of the town the plant was in to save my tail

 

Unless one dies? Then the driver becomes the owner? I imagine that depends a lot on who you are working for.

 

@wore out
It started life back in the 20s or 30s as Moyer Packing….most of the Dutchies roun here still call it that
Sometimes in the 80s the shortened it to Mopac
Now it’s just another foreign owned mega not worth doing biz with