Dump trailer OTR

Don't know about company but I loved pulling dump trailers hands down my favorite wagon to pull.

 

Zeeland is big in the Ag Market.. One would expect to haul: Minerals that are ground for animal feeds,
Salt, Wet Cake (Ethanol Plant waste used by farmers for feed) DDG (Dried Distiller Grains) Which is the dried version of wet cake.

Pretty much any kind of commodity that fits in the dump.
delivers to farms, co-ops, or any place that needs said products. It the pay is good, It could be a very good job. They will keep you running

 

Have to specify the type of dump trailer. A typical rock bucket dump would be pointless and completely useless OTR. Never even seen a load board with such a load that required a dump trailer. Walking floors and hoppers IMO are a category all their own with dumps being used primarily for dirt and aggregate.

 

Lots of end dumps in the ag business. I used to haul bone meal and blood meal in a framed East Genesis. Good work if you get hooked up with the right people.

 

I hauled a end dump for 7 years otr running an area from Mass all the way down to florida and as far west as Phoenix AZ. typical end dump freight, is alloys, coal, gravel, landscaping stone, scrap, fertilizer, lime, aglime, apples, I can go on and on. used to run a lot of alloys out of Ohio to Alabama then load scrap back and did a lot of coal out of wv to Oklohoma and had a run for 3 years hauling scrap up to Ontario out of Virginia and hauling aluminum bars back down. My dump was also equipped with tie downs and I would haul coils also.

 

I would like to see a picture of a coil in one of those. I assume you just hauled to places with an overhead crane?

 

yes just an overhead crane and could only load shotgun or eye to the sky.

 

that's about normal starting out. when I first started hauling end dumps I averaged 750-900 by time I left and bought my own truck to haul tankers I was making around 1400-2100 a week. I worked for a company in Ohio. Unfortunately about the time I was leaving they was cracking down on the drivers and a lot of the senior drivers including me left. I made that 1400-2100 running jags and double logs. it was nothing for me to load in Youngstown ohio at 100k wait until that night and haul ### down to South Carolina to be there in morning and hope I didn't get caught running scales. but running 100% legal on percentage a grand a week should be no problem in that industry