#### onions

I heard from a trucker on the internet there's good money in oversize reefer work.
I'm going to buy one then come on here asking how to get my new equipment home.

 

Take it home? Before you leave the dealer book that 40 tons of onions and call the permit office! You take it home all your gonna do is sit on the porch and admire it. HA!

 

You're smelling what I'm stepping in.

 

If onion brokers are anything like spud brokers, they get paid by the hundred weight. So they will always push to loadnthe truck to the max or beyond.

I.spent a few weeks hauling spuds. Decent enough job, but I got real tired real fast of running around the scales every load. Boss got paid more for me being overloaded, but I sure as heck didn't! If I'm taking the risk, there should be some extra compensation!

 

Which is why if you're going to haul onions you find the produce jockey or farmer and haul them direct.

 

I delivered onions to a place where a guy delivered them in his reefer. I couldnt get near it. Eyes burned so bad.

I know my tarps take about a month before they stop smelling like onions... I cant imagine how bad it would be in a reefer.

Hurst

 

This thread explains why we don't haul onions.

 

As to being compensated for over weight. I was hauling hay for dirty Ernie out of South Dakota up to a polo barn outside of St. Paul. When he was loading me I asked him how much the bales weighed. He acted as if he didn’t have a clue. So after I was loaded and we drove ten miles to town to scale at the grain elevator I found out I was three thousand pounds heavy. Of course Ernie was dumbfounded and wondered if I would run it as is. This is his normal operating procedure. My clock is ticking and farm and equipment was ten miles away. So I looked at him and said how much money you got in your pockets right now. I needed to get started I told him or the load would be late. Turned out he had a hundred dollar bill since he had brought his wife to town also and they were headed to dinner. I said more miles going around scales and more risk. If you want me to go right now I’ll take the 100 bucks. He wanted change but to bad.

He was a real cheap ### too. Guys I worked with would pay for their own scale ticket. I informed them that dirty Ernie had a charge account at the grain elevator and I charged all my scale tickets to him. Also he never overloaded me again and Definitely didn’t carry anymore 100 dollar bills when he was with me. More risk more money.

 

that's my understanding of why they don't generally haul onions in a reefer. cuz it makes the reefer useless for a lot of things after that for a long time.