Are most or all dump and waste paid per load?

You have to be aggressive in the northeast. If your not doing 70 your in the way...,,.

Most dump loads are by the ton.

 

Yes. Most of the guys around here start in the wee hours of the morning to get in line and wait at the landfill. Then as you stated, they spend all day driving like idiots trying to squeeze as many loads in as possible. Too many also are apparently too lazy to properly cover their loads and go down the highway spilling trash all over the place. KRD and Mr. Bult’s are the big 2 you see around here and I know what KRD pays isn’t worth the hassle, spoke with them a few years back just outta curiosity.

And I know the county cops set up portables about once a month or so at one end of their route and pop them for overweight and vehicle safety violations

 

Driving the north east is one particular reason I quit worrying about that rear view mirror within limitations. If Mr Dump wants by now come on bring it. Go away see you down the road. But he has to have the horses to get through.

What I watch for is cars engaging in insurance scam, fraud etc with me the target. Thankfully I can see them as they creep down the side of the trailer all 4 inside eyeballing super hard in the mirror. Juts before quickly pulling ahead 200 feet and setting on the brakes in my lane. (LIke i have not see that coming... been waiting for the show to start) And the company electronics can scream very hard stops all it wants to back to the shop. I don't have a camera anything thank god, but I do have my mind which contains the situation as it unfolded to be a very near thing.

Dump trucks are not in a particular hurry. The job will get done when it gets done. But we keep moving. That blacktop is cooling and there is only a certain time to get it into the paver. Unless we love to unload a thick solid cube and then ice pick at it? Forget it. Once in a while when we were empty we will do a little racing. but not on the major highways. I remember a wooden bridge we had to cross. And once off we had the option of following this winding gravel up and around or going straight up a 40 degree grass hillside with birds, flowers butter flies and trees up top. We ended up going straight up that grass and stopping just so on top. Bossman would pretend to curse us out for being stupid unsafe and so on. But he could tell we used just enough to get it up there and not so much as to be unsafe. My foreman been 6 years buried now after shoveling snow early for work stopped his heart. But it makes me happy to know that even then later in his life you can get some laughing out of him when we do a game with empty dump trucks on the job here and there.

Never mind the people wanting through your back door. If they really want to go through they will just have to pucker up and get it done. Mwah.

That's one reason I don't run the NE where possible. Aggression and other problems it brings out is a unnatural issue with such a pretty day and a wonderful people.

 

Most driving pay structures encourage dangerous driving.
Cpm, percentage, and per load all encourage one to speed and dangerous passing to make more money.