Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

uShip for heavy haul? Good for entertainment & a laugh; a train wreck of bottom feeder brokers! I have no idea why Ritchie Bros. is connected with them.

 

Real easy, they might be getting a kick back..
Plus it allows the low ballers and I don't have a clue to what I'm doing haul big stuff

 

You are probably right. Getting on RB's real "list" at the yards is almost impossible unless you know someone. I was on for awhile but the guy quit and I never got a load after that.

Funniest one I saw recently was a Volvo A40- low bid was stupid low but hey, it was for "drive-away service"! Talk about speed limiters on the highway.....

 

"""Funniest one I saw recently was a Volvo A40- low bid was stupid low but hey, it was for "drive-away service"! Talk about speed limiters on the highway....."""

Gotta Love it! Thank you for a huge smile and a good chuckle..



Excuse me sir, Do you know why I pulled you over?

No officer, is there something wrong?

You were going 15 MPH in a 65 MPH zone, could you please pick up the pace.

Oh is that all, I've had it against the floor since I left the auction! I thought maybe something was wrong?

 

"Ahhh, one-adam-twelve to headquarters, could you contact CVE and have them send officers to my location..."
"one-adam-twelve, CVE wants to know how many officers?"
"Ahhh, I'm going to need all of them....."

 

Started out the day with a little 980 from a job site to the customer's shop...

Then I had to max out the truck and trailer and move a D8 about 5 miles from one pit to another....

Then finished up the day with another 980. The trailer is now breathing a sigh of relief.

 

Yeah, I am not nearly as brave to drive over the back of the trailer. Especially when half of the tire is hanging off either side of the trailer. Probably doable but I still don't like the side to side rocking as it is.... LOL Besides that, 45 minutes and the thing is loaded, chained and back up on the truck ready to go. Oh, and the D8 must be loaded that way, aerodynamics you know..... LOL. Nah, only way to get legal under the permits for the D8. We don't drive over the back of any of our trailers with the exception of the dovetail and tilt bed trailers.

I still have a hard time getting used to the half steering wheel on the 980, just not natural. give me a loader with a joy stick and it is right up on the trailer with no problems.

First time I have moved a D8 like this one. Dang thing wanted to either slow crawl or race in the Indy 500. First time I have driven one too. The other 2 I have moved, the operator loaded them with me guiding them.

Boss wanted me to move a WA600 today. I had not seen one before so when I got there I looked it up (it was at the location I was dropping the first 980) and called him and said no way, this thing weighs 120k send the 9 axle. He did because we also had to move a 773 haul truck back to the shop too.

These were all short trips and picking up the next load less than 10 miles from the drop location.

 

And now you know why big HHers like @Rontonio & I kindly ask wanna be brokers and wanna be SuperTruckers that come and ask to "Move along, nothing to see here. Pay your dues like the rest of us did and come back when you've FORGOTTEN a thing or two, not just finally learned one!"
We own and operate >half million dollar, single units with ridiculous insurance coverage, and an equal amount of skill and knowledge to back all that up.
Here's the long and short. Buck a mile(Practical, not shortest, plus 10% for OD routing) per axle, as a base starting point. Excessive dim's/escort requirements/special handling are added up from there.

Go for it genius! Ask @cnsper how much the fines are when you make a mistake in his state...they LOVE pulling your permit, and I rarely get one of theirs for under $500. Look up the "Heavy Load, Heavy Fine" thread. I know guys who have gotten bigger tickets than that, be careful, cause you can't hide when your that big. Ask @JD4020 , I've personally seen a >$40,000 ticket issued from his state.
How 'bout MO, with that last load I just did...$620, plus they threw 3! pilots on me for 27 miles that cost $150/minimum. That's $920 for 27 miles...or $35.57/mile in permit & pilot costs, not fuel, not tires(I have 34 of them), or a single shot of grease for maintainence, let alone my wage. Go ahead and even try figure out the math on that one...
PS, you HH guys don't give the answer away...
Brokers that seem to think we should/can work for $4/mile all in...RETARDED!!!

 

Last summer I was leaving the Pilot in Billings. Ahead of me was a 23' wide load. We had to go through the Laurel scale so I just hung back even though he was slow. I was 12' wide at the time but I knew that he would get pulled in to check permits. They drool over loads like that like a box of glazed doughnuts. I got green lighted.

There is one officer that a lot of people hate. He has always been very professional to me even when getting a ticket. Our joke with this guy is that you can pass him going the other way at 60mph and he can tell you are overweight by the bulge in the tires. Pulled me over one time thinking I was too long and needed a pilot. Disappointed him by being 2 feet shorter than when the pilot is needed.

When you start needing pilots things get expensive real quick. When we moved the Terex scrapers this summer we had to have a pilot for 100 miles. The cost was $250 and at a $4 per mile rate that leaves a whopping $1.50 per mile for everything else.

If you are on a 2 lane in Montana you can expect to be pulled over if oversized if you see a MCS officer. At scales, your permits will be checked. Two days ago 2 of our trucks got pulled over by the same officer.

I have not seen the large fines that @heavyhaulerss has and don't plan to but I have heard of them. One driver I know got a 12k fine last year in South Dakota and had to get a crane out there to move the load. Had him cuffed to the front of the truck until the fine was paid or off to jail it would have been.