Cement Mixer Drivers?

I drove ready mix for a few years.
Could not stay with it though. Pay was a little too low, even with the hours I was working.
And really I would have stayed with it. But I live off Lake Erie in the snow belt. So we were laid off every winter for 4 months. And that was just too much time without a good paycheck.

All our trucks were tandom rear discharge. I was stuck with the belt truck. So I was paid a buck an hour more than the other drivers. But as belt truck driver I was always first in and last out every day.
Also when winter came I was last laid off. But that meant I was chipping trucks for several weeks while staying on and waiting for loads.
Chipped out every truck in the fleet.

My company was just a small private fleet, had about 10 trucks or so.
Down the street there is a union ready mix company. They pay an extra buck an hour over us. But spend much more time laid off.

Turnover is high. Just about anyone with a class B CDL can get in a mixer any spring without having to really job hunt. If you get a season experience it is even easier. Pay will range between 10-20 an hour depending on the part of the country and the cost of living in your area.
Basically it will balance out. 20 bucks an hour in So. MD or NYC is equal to 10 bucks an hour where I live lol.

 

Yeah we top out at about 19 an hour here in MN, start out first year 12.50 second year 15.50 an third up to 18.25, then an dollar for every hour worked bonus mid December. We are laid off usually from Nov-Dec (Whenever it freezes and snows) up until May so yeah it sucks money wise in the winter living off unemployment sucks. But I am single no kids so I can make it and I like having winters off for long vacations to California or Mexico....

 

Hello out there... Needing help from any experienced mixer driver! I'm trying to get the info on the readings or numbers for each individual slump from the slump meter. There was an image posted but it was very hard to read.
Thanks in advance....

 

I answered you on the other thread where you asked the question.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...-advice/87031-driving-the-cement-mixer-3.html

 

i never drove a front loader, company i work for dont like them because they weigh to much and we can legaly haul more crete on a rear discharge

 

How much you guys haul on a rear? We run fronts an we can legally haul 10 yards but we can haul 11 yards if its close to the plant.

 

I can carry 13 on a rear discharge tandem tandem. I have had closer to 14 on at times

 

we're allowed 9.5 here in CA to keep 'er legal at 70k. Tandem drives, rear discharge & rear booster axle.

 

we do 8 1/2 yards in a rear discharge, but they did upgrade our plates to 80k so im not sure what we can haul with length of bridge

the Chicago suburban dot cops always get the front loaders for weight