H & M Trucking Omaha, NE

May have to check these guys out. I live in Omaha. Would rather get home more often than every two weeks but thats what Im out now. The bump in pay would be nice. Aaaand Ill tell em Ed sent me!

 

I mean't, new CDL grads with driving experience. I'm a retread, had to go back to school and have driven 6 months. I'm learning how to spell also.

 

I live in eastern nc jacksonville to be exact can you flip flop back and forth between hopper and dry van? What are there main freightlines and is it the usual 1 day of four every 7 worked?

 

why did Angela ask me if I have tank endorsement on my CDL?

 

I believe you can but don't quote me 100% on that. H&M's hopper division isn't like most hopper last time I knew. They haul a lot of meat and bone meal out east. They're not your typical grain haulers. They're a lot like chicoda out of Beatrice. Also I don't know but I don't think they're hopper fleet is governed at 65. If they are they're turned up on the pedal I've had a driver from their hopper fleet blow by me at 70. Can't blame them for not governing the hopper fleet though time is money and you DONT want to be sitting at the end of a half mile long line of trucks wiatingnto load or unload at 6 in the morning.

Given the choice from somebody that has yanked around a box and a hopper stick with the hopper. H&M runs tandem high sides with vibrators. Its a lot of easy work. And except for the days of sitting their waiting because you're at the end of the line you will be driving more than you'll be waiting to load and unload. My longest wait when k pulled a hopper was 2 hours or so. I usually spent more time getting loads legal than I did waiting for everybody ahead of me (I didn have air gauges that worked). You will have to back and it takes skill to get into some places. I have been to elevators that would make a couple of the guys I work with who only pull a van cringe. Its dirtier work than van but you also get a decent workout at times. Have fun sweeping out that trailer and washing it out in a car wash lol.

Also I recommend getting a shovel. There are times when you will load and a pile will shift going down the road. I've had to use a broom on the back hopper before to get the trailer axles legal. 3 hours later and a lot of seeping and it was legal. shove would've been legal in about 20 minutes. Also like I said last time I knew H&M hauled a lot of meat and bone meal in the hopper fleet. That stuff does tend to stink on occasion. My dad hauled fish meal...might have been chicken meal...anyway his truck smelled for 3 days according to him. Yes that can get annoying but I never had the pleasure of hauling that lol.

One thing about pulling grain you're almost always time stamped on your BOLs. Your log needs to match that timestamp. We got around it by overnighting bills back to the office but keep that in mind. Also all DOT has to do if you're over gross is look at you're bill. The weights gross tare and net are right there. Learn how to axle put as they're just single pad scales most of the time. Pull your steer on, then drives and then trailer axles. Get used to doing that to get your axle weights as opposed to weighing at a cat scale. Lot faster and every minute counts. Especially if you're going to the same place other drivers are it as nothing to be racing 4 or 5 different trucks to the elevator or ethonal plant when I was hauling grain. For a while there I thought I was a bullhauler.

And NEVER trust the gauges on your truck and trailer when loading grain especially when you're not loading on level ground. I eye balled a lot of my loads and got to the point where I could put it about 500lbs of legal just by looking at my piles.

I don't know much about H&M's box division. Id imagine its like most box divisions at other companies. Hurry up and wait. Load the trailer close the doors hit the scale slide the tandems get to the received open the doors bump the dock and wait. Either way I'd run hopper for them if I were you. They run volvos, trailers that I have seen were in good shape. My neighbor used to work for their box division. He was running a Volvo with less than 100k on it. He ran out east said he liked it. He doesn't work their anymore never asked why wasn't my business but he brought his truck home every 2 weeks or so. Always had it washed and clean. It was a sharp looking truck h never complained about pulling power and sizing it up it appeared to be taken care of. Virgin rubber on the truck, good caps on the trailer. No junk.

That's about all I can tell you good luck.