Dry van floor load potatoes

Don't be making Barney get his bullet out, hear? LOL!!

 

Shrapnel. Oh God, my sides.

 

Potatoes will not freeze as long as you tractor can idle. I hauled a hundred loads from Animas CO in -30 weather with no reefer on a covered wagon.

 

Tell that to the tater haulers out of PA that have the chromed out rides with special order Great Dane spread axle tater vans. There is money to be made in anything if you have the right connections and reputation.

 

He is correct. I live in an area that grows 'taters, have hauled many a load. They pay well, if you get hooked up with the right connection. These brokers take the loads, then offer them out at a low-ball rate. If someone takes the load at the low rate, the broker has made out like a bandit. If no one bites, they will offer a little more $$ until it is finally covered.
Most potato loads pay by the weight, and these brokers offer it on load boards by the mile.
Hauling any type of produce is very demanding,tough, un-predictable trucking, but if you get set up right, there is money to be made.

 

Have to think about what the potatoes will be sold as in the end-product. What does a 10 lb. bag of spuds go for at the store? $3? If it is $3 and you can scale 45,000 pounds, you have 4,500 units at $3 each or $13,500 price retail value. Out of that, the trucking, the production, the everything must be subtracted. Now in my store the local potatoes go for about the same price as the Idaho potatoes do. Some go very far others do not.

Now if the potatoes are going to be turned into chips and sold at a very high price (per pound) then they can afford to pay much more for the trucking.

 

Shhh!!!! No money in haulin Taters!!! Onions??? Don't pay worth a ####, too! You don't want to come to these stinky cheese factory neither! Plus, you don't even want to come to Idaho. Southern Idaho is just a vast desert wasteland that can be windy as all get out, freezing cold during the winter, scorching hot, dry, and dusty during the summer! Nobody in there right mind would want to come here!

Just move along and find something else to haul. Nothing to see here.

 

^^^ Hehe good one

 

It makes no difference what they can afford to pay, as long as they can get it hauled cheaper, they will. Don't you always look for the best fuel price ? You might have enough cash in your pocket to pay a dime a gallon more, but why do it ? The shippers care only that are getting the best possible total deal.

It is all about supply and demand.