Wheeler Trucking

Can you get more on the trailer by stacking them, if so that's what makes the extra work worth it unless it's just a short haul.

 

Tanks brother. You and yours have a Merry Christmas.

 

We stack them to get extra units to fit. It's all about the revenue but doesn't change the fact it's work harder than most people would want to do. If you read through this thread there are guys that quit because the work kicked their butt.

Sometime speed and efficiency will make you more money. If a guy can come in get loaded and be gone in 45mins with 4 units and deliver just as quick but it takes me two plus hours to do the same, it would take the Sun Country long to make up the gap and his truck isn't getting worked as hard as mine and his body isn't getting nearly as beaten up either. Work smart not hard.

 

I definitely see what your saying, but getting 50% more pay per mile, and not racking up 50% more miles on the truck is worth it. 50% coming from stacking 6 on your trailer vs only 4 on the sun country. Just my 2 cents. I get more for the cars I have to winch on without too much of a problem because alot of people won't to put on the extra effort.

 

That's why there aren't too many jump at the chance yo come yo work here. He'll company drivers making 6 figures driving new trucks every couple of years and they still can't fill all the seats.

If hard work wasn't hard everybody would be doing it right.

 

Do you find that the longer you do it the easier it gets? I know when I first started hauling cars it took me five or six hours to load. Now it's an hour to an hour and a half. I still put my load down on paper to make sure I do it the easiest way possible.

 

When I first started it wasn't uncommon to get out of a unit 5 or 6 times to makes sure everything was set right and I had clearance. Now I know what products fit where and only get out when I need to move a ramp. Saves at least an hour or more on a load/unload.

The first few weeks I slept like a baby. As with anything else the body adopted. I lost about 50 pounds in the first couple of months but as with the work load the body got use to it too. Leveled out since than. May get more motavited after winter.

 

Be sure to talk to Phil Rauch, owner at Sancrest, he's tight with Sun Country and gives them alot of design ideas from his truck hauling operation. He can recommend the best equipment. Straight up guy.

 

The dealer I was delivering yesterday told me about an Isuzu cab and chassis they had received recently. It was supposedly totaled because of frame damage. He said it came in from California on a lowboy and it was in the middle of the load. I have heard horror stories about frames being bent on chain trucks and was wondering if improper chaining might have caused this.

 

Banker.

Would have to look at what the frame did but yes improper chaining can bend a frame. This happens when you just hook a frame and than torque the hell out of it.

I haven't heard anything about one being totaled. Might have been Unimark.