Any California intrastate companies anyone can recommend?

what about William company. their driver seem to be happy there. from what I heard, most of their driver make great money. top guy make above 300k

 

If you can haul logs you can haul anything. If you can afford a flatbed & find a broker in your neck of the woods you should be OK. I'm at the north end of the state so my names probably won't work down there. Who hauls Sierra Pacific in your area? Could you haul direct for SP or any other mill?

If you just want to pull somebody's trailer & get through the winter, you might try Bear, out of San Bernardino, pull their trailers & haul beer north & wine or whatever south. They have a lot of Miller-Coors distributors on the 99 corridor. You might also try KLX in Fresno. I'm not sure exactly what they do or if they hire o/o's, I used to talk to a guy from Fresno who complained that they had everything in town sewed up.

Good luck & let me know if you want some broker names up north. I wish I could break into log hauling. It's sort of a closed club up here & there's hardly any logging left. I have so many memories of riding in dad's B Model Mack, the smell of diesel smoke, dust & fresh cut timber is the best perfume in the world.

 

Logging isn't dead yet. With all the fires there's going to be a big push on burn salvage.

 

Not a lot of fires up here in redwood country. At least not yet, thank god.

 

http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1022

They're all around you. I just got released from the Eiler Fire... and I'm headed to Laytonville in the morning. Lowbed with a D-6.

http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1015

Pretty good fires in Forks of the Salmon, too.

http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4035/

 

None of those fires are really in Redwoods type country. Laytonville, for example, is inland- Mostly fir, little redwood. The others are pine/fir country. All the years I've camped around Forks Of the Salmon, there's no redwoods up there. A redwood forest takes a lot hotter fire to actually damage the trees too as the bark protects more that other species.

Another thing guys don't understand about salvage sales is that the mills won't cut more lumber than they can sell. If there are a lot of salvage sales the logging on other lands just gets reduced. The overall amount of work doesn't really increase that much. Also, in cases like the Laytonville fire, I think a lot of that is small acreage, private owners. I'm not sure all those pot growers are gonna want their property salvage logged.