How Many Walking Floor Drivers??

I always had a thing for haulin trash. Not sure why. Wanted to really do it but most of the companys around me pay by the ton so for now ill stick to doing the rolloff thing and being a dirt dummy. Although everything you listed is also a perk in driving the rolloff. Only thing i have to really worry about is ruining a driveway, but its nice not having to worry about damaging a load or dealing with the crap.

 

I did the landfill thing when our landfill was shut down for being full. My company asked me if I wanted the job and I sayed heck yeah. I was tired running up to Jersey. Our county bought two walking floors and I hauled it to the next county with an old Mack. By the time I got back they had the second one full.

I kind of liked it while it lasted. It wasn't long the county acquired the land behind and reopened the landfill. They sold them two shiny walking floors for peanuts. Someone got a good deal. I still have the big logging chain they gave me in case I got stuck.

Back to Jersey I went. It wasn't long I took a rolloff job for the county because I liked it.

There's another bigger thread on this somewhere. You might use the search feature.

 

I pull a walking floor hauling food waste from our dedicated customers to our plants where we process it into animal feed. Our trailers vary from regular W/F ag trailers, containers that have been modified with W/F's, and aluminum trash trailers. We also use dumps, hopper bottoms, push outs and vans so the day stays interesting by always switching trailer types. Many of our trailers get backed up to compactor units so when switching them out we have only inches of tolerance to get them into place. Have to make an occasional trip to the landfill to get rid of the packaging material that the mill separates during processing. Home every night, hourly pay, run anything from city for the day to a regional 300 to 500 mile round trip.

 

We run all Titan thinwalls with the walking floors. Myself, I haul chips and sawdust, and the occasional trash load to a landfill. We do haul ground up tires and mulch as well, and hog fuel to the small power plants.We run 7 and 8 axles, permitted for 160k. I usually run a 7 axle, 2 down axles and 5 lifts, with a double spread, that combination can get me to 151k legally. Usually I've got 75-80k in the box. I am limited to 144k gross because of a couple bridges I cross though. I run basically a dedicated run to Sault Ste. Marie Ontario daily, and pickup at any one of the Amish sawmills in the Mio Michigan area. Home daily, and get paid a flat rate. Yepper, I like it, no more dealing with crabby customers either. On my run, I unload with a tipper, doesn't get much easier, and with 10-11 axles, the 4wheelers seem a bit more respectful.

 

I pull a 42ft Dorsey in the spring hauling bark mulch delivering to garden centers and landscapers yards.
Heres a pic.

 

What sort of volume can you guys haul. Looks like you'd hit 80k gross pretty quick.

 

I've done a handful of hay runs with a walking floor for a guy out of Lamar... don't really think I'd consider myself a walking floor driver, though.