twin-stick redi-mix trucks?

Is there anything better then pulling up on a job and seeing a pump?

 

Oh I know, that is the best especially when the contractor you're going to usually pushes the trucks and drivers to the limits. Makes for an easy day when you get to go to a pump all day long. Had a job last year for a college in our town we had 7 trucks going back and forth from the pump to the plant all day pumping for a big deck on a new building. I love days like that...

 

haha, I've worked around alot of you concrete guys, I wish I had it that easy sometimes. Anytime I went into the office in the AM and they told me to load my truck with a load of drywall I always shuddered. I hated booming/stocking drywall. Is it true that most of your front discharge mixers are automatics?

 

Yep all of our fronts have an allison automatic in it, which is awesome especially when you have to go mud bogging, or for pulling out one of them straight trucks that buried it on the job site. 6 wheel drive and locking axles also help a little.

 

yeah? I havent gotten stuck yet, I've came #### close a couple of times though. I did have my moffit forklift have a ditch cave underneath it and my rear wheel sunk into the ditch, I had to hook a chain to the ICC bar on my truck and pull it out with the truck.

 

Lol yeah, had to pull out a straight flatbed truck from a site. They just backfilled the area with fresh black dirt and didn't tell him, even though it was obvious he still pulled in there and buried it. So I asked him if he wanted me to pull him out and the contractors said I saved there tail because it was on a state job and they had a bunch of stuff coming in soon and didn't know how they were gonna get him out. But I've buried my truck about 3 times so far in the last year, and it's bad when you bury a mixer.

 

####, I find myself going up more hills that are really iffy when your grossing 73k, like twisty and windy hills that used to be gas patch roads and some A-hole ritch fella decided to build a house clear up on top.

 

I start doing redi-mix Monday. This thread has been very helpful. I think we are going to be pouring year round. No big front loaders just all the rear loaders. To be honest I would prefer the winters off, I have another job lined up that will pay me $500/day for the winter, Nov to April.

 

500 dollars a day?! dude thats unreal, I'd have to see it to believe it.

 

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...vice/80607-front-discharge-cement-trucks.html

This thread may be of some help for ya to, I started it before I started driving the mixer. An yeah Logan i've been up some iffy hills and roads and when you're that heavy you start to wonder if the roads gonna give out, we gross out at 78k and thats a lot of weight on a straight truck.