Hauling Milk?

I haul the finished product to the Walmart’s love my job, I’ve talked to a few of the guys who run the milk from the farms to the plant they love it too. A few of them have sleepers and a few have just day cabs.

 

Long haul milk is really on the clock. You have to GO. Once in a tanker, it's only good for a fixed number of hours. If you lay around somewhere too long and it spoils... there will be hell to pay.

Short Haul route pickup to dairy is not about the miles at all. The focus is on the grading quality of milk at the farm in his tank, weighing it, sampling (Not drinking it... it goes into small containers traceable back to farm) and making a decision to load that or not into the trailer.

Routine. You have to be someone that farmer can set their watches by. Those cows are getting milked and you have to be there on time to get it. They DO NOT have time for you to be a hour late or half a day late.

 

Last time I checked into hauling milk, no set days off, holidays and weekends, run till you can't. Cows get milked 365 days a year. I didn't want to work that hard. Our mechanic used to do it. Would haul milk from
Indiana to Louisiana occasionally..

 

If you got the job... There is one more wrinkle to milk hauling. You will have to go visit the state at the designated testing center to be licensed to grade, weigh milk etc. Some of the questions on the test are actually emotional Such as for example what determines a cow's production of milk? Part of the answer is happy. If it's happy it's going to be flooding milk. If it's bawling in a mud pit rolling eyes at you for water etc it's not going to be happy and produce a drop.

 

The plus side to hauling milk is there is always consistent work lol.

 

Carton milk going out in a reefer is good. Just alot of it.