Climate Express

Yep they have 10 trucks for OTR but only 5 of them are filled. To be honest they hire these guys and throw them in a truck, without explaining the job, and the first time they shoot the bed up in the air and it starts swaying guys come back and quit. But yea our road guys run a lot of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan. Mostly midwest. They’ll get a stint every now and then where they are running the southeast. Every once in awhile they get up into Minnesota and take glass to Florida. I think last year they got into Wyoming a few times. Texas quite a bit too.
We load along side those Bones guys quite a bit I’ve never heard them ever say anything bad about them. Same with Ben Shinn up in Eddyville, IA. Those guys are usually pretty laid back and chill. As far as hazmat we don’t haul dirty dirt. I don’t know about Shinn. I think some of those Bones guys get fertilizer in Chicago somewhere that they hafta placard. If you have a pic you can share of your old end dump rig I’d love to see it!

 

I wish i did. It was a 2005 379 with the mid roof 72" sleeper. 475 cat with an 18 speed. So how far away will your company hire from and are they willing to run freight all over.

 

I've hauled fertilizer before but never had to placard it. I did have to placard anhydrous but that was on a tank.

 

I think it’s some sort of new fertilizer thing. We haul alot of DAP and they do something else I wish I could remember to tell you. If memory serves it’s an oxidizer placard they run. They’ll hire guys from pretty much anywhere our dispatch has a pretty good knack for finding something going somewhere. Where do you live at?

 

Central Illinois. Peoria. 150 miles southwest of Chicago. My wife an i run team. But we only make bout a 100k between the 2 of us. But that's cuz climate isn't a traditional team operation.

 

Yea i used to haul urea , i think that's how it's spelled. I've hauled potash too. If it can be hauled in a dump box ive hauled it. Haven't hauled everything but I've got 4 years frameless exp in my career an hauled a lot of different stuff.

 

Oh yea we go thru Peoria a lot. We take scrap from St Louis to Muscatine IA and pass thru Peoria and I think there’s a regular haul to Lasalle IL to a pretty decent size cement plant up there.

 

Yea Muscatine SSAB is where i used to haul dust out of. And it's Illinois Cement ( ICC). At lasalle. I used to haul cement on a pneumatic tank to the haz mat landfill in peoria everyday.

 

Yep SSAB! That’s it, thank you. Man I’m having a tough time tonight thinking of names. I kept wanting to call ICC in Lasalle LaFarge. Anyway, we usually get mill scale out of the backside of SSAB or Gerdau Steel in Wilton, IA going back to Hannibal, MO or KCMO. Or fertilizer out of Rock Island going back somewhere. There’s a Alcoa in Bettendorf, IA also that we are no stranger too as well. I’m usually under a 34’ tri axle but since I’ve been doing longer runs I’m under a road trailer. They’re all 40’ spreads which makes bulk hauling WAY easier than closed tandems in my opinion, as far as staying legal on axles.