Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Think I'm going to look around for some of those motorcycle glasses with the filters on them to seal out dust. $3.87 east of the city. Seen some at $4.10 on the west side though.

 

I'd say you nailed it WH,sounds like somebody dropped the ball to me too. My merchandiser usually tells me on Thur/Fri what needs to be moved where, the following week too,and if somebody does'nt cover their loads by mid-week,he starts scrambleing by Wed to get them covered. Sounds like your staying fairly busy.

 

I'm still puttering around in the city. Was supposed to be out running some regional stuff but the boss ended up in the hospital with gallstones or something. But I saw this today and thought it was pretty amusing.

 

Is harvest wrapping up for everyone? We've probably got about 10 days of soybeans left, and as the wet weather trend continues, it's going to get ugly I'm afraid. As dry of a year as it has been, it's a kick in the shorts to be too wet now to get them out. One weather pattern gives way to the next I guess...

 

New to company hopper bottom driving wanting to know if this is normal. I haul mostly ag byproducts and am running 12-14hrs a day 5-6 days a week. There are probably several of you out there sallivating at the mouth but for this old guy it just wears me out. I have worked manufacturing jobs where I worked this many hours but it would be just a few days here & there not week after week. Doesn't seem like much money when you figure in all of the hours worked.

 

Do yourself a favor and don't figure up your pay by the hours worked.

 

Mostly done around here, a few beans left but not a lot. I was up in WI this week, looks like quite a bit of corn left up there and in northern IL. Still got some lime to haul if we can find any and maybe fertilizer later too, but its been too wet to get in the fields to dump lime. We got about 3.5" last weekend and another 1" Thursday I think.

Anyone else run into problems with alfatoxin in corn? Most of the elevators around here were testing every load for it, either scanning it under a black light or with a strip test that took about 10 minutes to get a result. But the sampling and testing was so inconsistent, you could get a positive test at one elevator, take it to another and it would be ok. For a $.75 dock it was a little outrageous. Some guys were convinced it was just a scam, and its hard to argue otherwise when an elevator dumps the corn testing positive right into a bin with good corn with the intentions of blending it off. The kicker is a lot of farmers didn't put corn in the bin since they were afraid of getting an entire bin with alfatoxin and then being screwed. So this winter is going to be even worse than it would have been due to all those empty bins.