Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by wheathauler, May 31, 2009.

  1. bullhaulerswife

    bullhaulerswife Forum Leader/Admin Staff Member Administrator

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    Logging like you do it is pretty much the norm now. Most all of our scale tickets have a time in/time out stamped on them, so how do you get around that when you get pulled in at a scale? Plus now the fuel card shows the time you fueled on the internet admin screen. You get in an accident, and your screwed if you didn't log it like it happened. Some nasty lawyer will eat you alive.

    I know lots of guys throw away the scale ticket and just keep the BOL with the hand written info on it, but that puts you in question if you loose weight between the two places. AND we've had that happen before and some serious conflicts on which weight to pay on came up. So having the scale ticket from where you loaded helps a lot in getting paid.

    We had one place that we loaded M&B all the time, they would have a couple thousand pounds of ice on their scale, and wouldn't zero it out or use the skid to remove it. That caused all kinds of problems. :biggrin_2556: (we won't even talk about daylight savings time with them) Of course we were stuck in the middle. And this was an inter company transfer from one facility to another. We stopped hauling those because of the scale differences between the two places. :biggrin_25513: Just one big argument about the whole weight thing.
     
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  3. wheathauler

    wheathauler Trucker

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    I may have interesting haul coming up in the near future. Going to haul grain to a big manufacturing building that is empty. Supposedly it will hold 2.5 million bu. of wheat. I guess there is way too much wheat in storage right now and they need a place to store it. I will just haul for a little bit until the trucker who has the contract can hire more drivers.
     
  4. dairyman

    dairyman <b> Hopper Thread Greeter</b>

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    WH,maybe the building will have a door on each end and a feller on each end with with a trap handle so you can just slow down when you enter and exit the building,make a purty little windrow of wheat the length of the building:biggrin_255:
     
  5. RW.

    RW. Heavy Load Member

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    That's a lot of wheat!!! Did they say how they would unload you? Dairyman's idea isn't too bad, they could push it up into a pile with loaders...
     
  6. wheathauler

    wheathauler Trucker

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    I guess they are going to auger it in since I saw a auger at the building. I guess they wanted eight trucks hauling but augering would be pretty slow. They're paying by the hour so oh well.
     
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  7. BIGMIKE1

    BIGMIKE1 Light Load Member

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    I am getting ready to buy a hopper, have a haul with local farmer here in east central mo. about 4000 acres corn and soybeans but i need something to keep unit busy after the first of the year and next summer. Does anyone know any good brokers or shippers? What the best hopper as far as size and features to haul most products?
     
  8. crop jocky

    crop jocky Light Load Member

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    wheathauler who got the contract?
     
  9. wheathauler

    wheathauler Trucker

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    Sun Valley. They haul a lot for this grain company so not unexpected.
     
  10. highside

    highside Medium Load Member

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    I can't speak for brokers or shippers in central MO, but a 43'x78"x102" Timpte is a good all around trailer to haul just about anything you'd want.
     
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  11. crop jocky

    crop jocky Light Load Member

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    I figured thats probly who got it. Dad was hauling wheat to hutch and corn back outwest. Potatoe harvest just started there hauling out of the field over by ulysses to imperial nebraska, and some where in colorado cant remember where he said.
     
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