corn/grain

Check out bulkloadsnow.com It is a load board/ forum/ website dedicated to the bulk/grain industry and it should give you some places to start looking. Are you an O/O or just looking to drive someones truck?

 

Hauling grain is gonna be a tough one too. With how bad the drought was last year reduced the grain hauling. Lots sold fast and early. Lot of other drivers look into hauling dryvans till things pick back up. Be safe out there drivers.

 

Do you have a trailer? Hopper or end dump? Check out that load board and do some snooping around to see what you can come up with.

 

I stay busy year round pulling a Live bottom and a hopper on occasion. Check out the local feedlots and elevators, feedlots always need corn hauled, and elevators usually know when a farmer needs he grain hauled. Food for thought

 

trade the futures

 

MilesLong, what part of Illinois are you in?

 

I live near Peoria, IL. Around here most of the farmers take their grain out of the fields to co-op elevators where it is dried and stored. Then over the course of the year it is sold and shipped to various river and rail terminals, distilleries, feed mills, and ethanol plants.

In the fall you can make some money working directly for a farmer hauling from the fields to the elavator's. Call larger farms, you will have no trouble finding someone looking for an extra truck.

The rest of the year you can haul out of the elevator's as they sell. Contact them directly, most of the time the way that works is whenever they sell grain they release a number of loads, then all the guys hauling for them run until they fill the orders. There's not much money in it around here because the farmers will run pretty cheap to give their drivers something to do in the off seasons.