Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

you talking about thye one where they want your input?
I so yes I did told them to make it simple and workable without the need of a rocket scientist to do the math on the log book .

 

I was at Oakley for about nine months pulling a dump. They are a good company and have one of the best safety records in the business and seem to have a lot of customers and work I was always loaded.

What do you want to know?

 

Seen a Cornhusker trailer split completely in too from a wreck or something sitting at Wilkins Truck shop in Tonkawa, OK this last week. Bill have you heard anything about a wreck.

One of the outlaw grain haulers here in Oklahoma (Heads Trucking) had a bad one this last week. I am sure he was heavy as they usually are he was doing somewhere in the 60 mph range in a 40 mph zone going threw town south of me and ran into the back of a flatbed truck. That is one I would like to see go bye, bye.

 

Local guy bought a new Timpte hopper, it is a 3 axle and all the axles stay on the ground with spring ride. Haven't talked to him but why the spring ride, is their a weight savings? How much can you haul with that set up, 90 grand?

 

I made two rounds this week to Houston and back and had a pretty good week until I had a 78 year old man run into the back of me and totaled his pickup and messed up the back of the trailer I was pulling. I was on a four lane, real light traffic and the sun was coming up. I was in my lane and pulling into the customers location when he ran into the back of me at about 50 mph he rode off to the hospital and I visited with the DOT for two hours but I had everything in order and got a CVSA sticker for the truck but the trailer was put out of service due to accident. Someone not paying attention sure screws up your day.

 

3 axle trailer in nebr. 90000#

 

Sorry to hear about your wreck Big John that sucks. I was curious about oakley overall as a company. Did you pull their trailer or did you have your own? Did you run all 48 or stay mainly in the midwest and how often were you home?

 

Haven't heard about any big wrecks, but it doesn't surprise me that a cornhusker broke in two. I used to have a '95 model (didn't really want it, but I needed a trailer and the price was right) that would twist and turn whenever you went over any kind of un-level ground. She started to crack out, and I would have her welded back up, but she kept cracking in the same spots. That trailer went bye-bye after that.

Doesn't surprise me about Heads...I agree - that's one I wouldn't mind seeing go away. Their CSA score looks like a christmas tree with all the red colors on it! But I doubt they gives a rat's ### about it though.