Farm Pick Up Milk Hauling

Yes I would! The money is better, plus working conditions. Hauling milk, too much of giving away your time, sitting around these dairies. With fuel, you might wait a few minutes loading but most the times you are in and out. With fuel, basically you set the tune, with milk you dance to the other man's music.

 

There is longer waits at our local dairy in the winter vrs summer. The intake bays were designed in the 60's for 2 straight trucks nose to tail. Eighty percent are now tankers and the rest are 4-8 axel straight trucks. In summer they can keep doors open and the front ends hanging outside. A lot of backups in the winter and then there is the issue of the scale freezing up.

 

Couldn't agree on more with this one.
Picking up the milk from the farms where I'm at right now pays me pretty good for the most part.
But with loads coming off either everyday, or every other day, I find it kind of hard to plan road-trips, or other non-work related activities.
I'm currently waiting for a call-back from Waste Management(already had a phone and an in-person interview there) and another Pepsi interview coming up.
But after three-plus of years of doing the milk thing, I figure it's time to pull the throttle back to the 40/45hr/week setting.
Enjoy some life, get some additional academic/vocational endeavors out of the way.

I mean I wasted most of my 20s doing nothing(literally work and go back to the attic), might as well make my 30s "The It" decade.

 

Let me give a good example of these dairies wasting a driver's time. Had a 8:05 am appointment the other day at a certain dairy in Ga. They will not let you on the yard over 1 hr before your appointment, i got there @7:15am. Now mind you, they start @5am each morning, when I arrived, they had not finished the first truck. I got out of there @1:30pm. Tell me, when ELDs get into trucks within the next two years, pray tell me how is a milk hauler going to do it?

 

If you talking tandem tanker milk pick up on farm, not for everybody ruff hours, #### ,run 80 miles an hour allday or you wont get back home untill dark thirty everyday then time go do again $750 week

 

I just shuttle preloaded trailers to local delivery points. Actual loading at the barn wore me down. Pay is so so for me, but at least my schedule is a little more free.