Can you convert a new trailer with duals to super singles?

Milk pays great in some areas, crap in others. Follow the big 1k+ farms and thats where it pays little. We don't do to bad in my neck of the woods. Most haulers around here start at 50-55k a year. I did better hauling trash from residential stops back a couple years ago, but I live comfortably now without smelling like cat pee at the end of a rainy day.

 

If fuel prices go up and stay up a bit those hobby milk farmers will go under and lower the over supply of milk.

Now eventually high fuel prudes will destroy the entire economy cause the more people spend on gas and heat the less they have to sirens on new tvs and washing machines, so fuel can't stay high. But it needs to stay high long enough to have a long term positive effect.

 

I wasn't referring to company driver wages. Was talking about the trucking rate.

 

Taking out all the little guys is not ever, under any cicustance good for anybody and that's what you appear to be wanting.

 

No not at all. I'm a little guy. The shoe string budget hobby guys are the problem. Has nothing to do with the size of the outfit, but how the outfit operates as a hobby vs a business.

 

There isn't that many, if any, people who are in farming of any sort as a hobby. You do know milking cows starts at 4 in the morning and you're not done with night chores till 9 at least, and then you've got to get up every couple hours to check on the cows about to calve, that's a hell of a hobby.

 

Just because it requires a lot of time and effort doesn't mean its run as a business. Example: look at all the guys running trucks for the same net income as a company driver. I can take you to hundreds of farms that the farmer has a full time job to support his farm. That is a hobby farmer.

Heck I'm a hobby rancher. One that is subsidized by your tax dollars. I keep cattle for one reason and other reason only, for the agriculture tax exemption on my property.

 

1 in the same. You need a good rate to pay the drivers what they're paid and still have a profitable business, otherwise whats the point?

 

So all farmers are hobbyist? Because I can take you to 100s of farms where the farm is the job with nothing else supporting it.

 

Not necessarily. I know plenty of small carriers barely squeaking by on less than 5% profit but pay drivers comparatively well.