Driving dump trucks

Well you don’t do anything all day. You just transport the machine to the job for the crew. Then you drop the trailer on site and haul whatever the material that they need hauled. If you work for a blacktop company, you will be moving the paver or some other type of equipment besides milling machine.
So a typical day is just driving the truck. Did you have something else in mind?

 

Throw any hung over people into the bin. (We used to drive by say a Home Depot, collect 10 tool people who do not speak a word of english very early int he morning.) hand em a shovel and point here to there.

Hint.

There are some born to shovel work. Those are the ones you hire within 6 months and they proceed to build a life for themselves and their family.

Fill tanks at a local gas station while you chow down on whatever hot is availible on their grill and hydrate on several gatorade bottles, buying more for he coming 18 hour day. You will be working until you cannot see.

Your beaver has the paver, backhoe on it aleady. Chained. Then fuel em both. Fuel your dump truck as well, your 330 gallon tanks are now tanker service for the paver and backhoe support as well as the other littler dump truck with much smaller fuel capacity.

You are building a 200 yard common road paid for by 12 households along the valley near Ellicott City Md. Some off road, some on road, a hell of lot of driving and loading at the bulk blacktop plant. First up in stone. A ocean of the stuff. That way in case it rains you have proceed anyway.

Blacktopping is going to take both trucks in relay for at least 130 yards capacity delivered to the paver if at all possible that day. You two take turns loading. (And standing in line etc) The other drives the hell out of it to the job site.

Did I mention you started this day before sunrise and will keep on trucking for about 18 to 20 hours until you cannot see anymore. The money? Jobs like that takes care of themselves. In a couple of days the two mile road is finished linking the 12 households, their families to the main public county road network at the intersection on the hill. Everyone pooled their money together to make the 30,000 dollar job happen on a easement they all shared with the county near Columbia maryland.

Dump truck work is not particularly difficult until it is one day. Those are he days you remember well.

 

Once you get to the jobsite and unload what equipment you hauled, it is just another day going round and round in a circle.
I have done a lot of it, but it is boring and more tireing than running the big road.

 

Them circles definitely get old.