My experience in dump trucking

I have recently started driving trucks as of November of last year I got my permit and went to truck driving school. I graduated in January and went to work for TMC Transportation but I ended up quitting half way through the second week of orientation. I had decided that living over the road wasn't really going to work out for me. I flew home and the very next day March 28th I saw an ad on craigslist for a job for a dump truck driver with Class A CDL locally for an asphalt company. I went applied for the job and got the job on the spot. Its a small company we only have 7 trucks but we do multi million dollar jobs every week. In the process of working there the past 5 months I have learned way more than I ever thought I would be able to in such a short period of time. I drive a Mack CL700 tandem and I pull a 28 foot low deck tilt trailer. I haul all kinds of equipment such as skid steers , pavers, rollers, excavators and other things here and there. I have learned how to load all this equipment on my own. I have gone to low man on the totem pole to the lead driver at the company. I think things are going pretty good the world of trucking has unlocked so many possibilities for me and I hope it can for you too.

 

We contract out to brokers so we will run as many as 20 trucks on a job. We have a have a few days this year where we put down over 2400 ton in a day

 

Plus any more trucks than that is a waste we pay the brokers around $70 an hour and we just need enough trucks so we are not waiting on asphalt at any point during the day and usually at the most its a 40 minute round trip to the nearest asphalt plant.

 

do you run dump also? I had to go to Cincinnati not that long ago to pick up some equipment my boss purchased at an auction over at blue chip paving it was on mount carmel tabasco road I believe.

 

I'm sure someone can answer this for me but is it more or does DOT like to pick on dump trucks. I have been stopped a total of 6 times since I started driving dump in late march and everytime it was by State Highway Patrol DOT or Sheriff DOT.