Does anyone pull logs in georgia

I don't have any log hauling experience, but I hauled wood chips for quite a while with Pritchett Trucking, going to Rock Tenn in Panama City, GP in Cedar Springs, and Buckeye in Perry. The constant that I noticed is the restrictions constantly put on the driver, they're wide open for a few weeks at a time and then they'll put you on quota. Some weeks you can bring in untrimmed logs, then they want you trimming them. Some weeks you can unstrap in the parking lot, some weeks they want you unstrapping at the loader.

I don't know that there's much money to be made doing it. I know as a company driver hauling wood products I wasn't compensated all that well, but that's the norm for the area. i would think with the right business sense you could make a decent living, but I certainly wouldn't expect to get rich.

Make sure your truck is up to par, they'll take a beating in the woods, and Florida and Georgia DOT will take a beating on you on the highways if you're truck is not in good mechanical working order, log trucks and rock trucks are the first ones to get busted and picked on down in those areas.

 

at the graphic packaging mill here in macon there is an old scale right outside the mill , every now and then DOT will set up right at the old scales , doesnt seem right to me but i guess they are just doing there job right