"Dump Truck Is What I Want...Where Do I Start"

Can you get on with a carrier and gain some experience? Run about 5 years and that should drop your rates.

 

You can lease to a dump company ya know. We have lease drivers here. Road trucks and daycabs. Its not 100% neccesary to have a air dump on your drives to be able to pull a dump bed. 1/2 our tractors are little daycab shakers with out it and none have tipped yet. Had a exhd road pete with the low leaf dumped tip though. A few of the shakers are pulling 39ft dumps the rest are 25ft.

 

Yeah just start calling around. Surely someone up there leases too.

The air dump on the drives is just a switch on the dash that will dump your drive axles airbags. Makes the truck more stable when dumping. Not a requirement though, just have to be more careful without one. Also makes it easier to drop and hook a trailer. It could be anywhere really, doesn't have to be on the dash.

 

Most of the time we hook up an air over electric switch that is hooked up to the pto and when the pto is engaged it automatically drops the air in the bags on ur drive axles.

 

If you opt to go with allumunum end dump you may want to invest on a floor liner espacially if you are going to haul top-soil othrwise you'll be doing alot of shovelling,dirt does'nt like alluminun espacially if it's wet or damp........

 

I've got a liner in my HilBilt XP. Sand still sticks up front, then rock, then more sand. Next thing you know your empty weight is a few hundred pounds heavier. Just raise it up and spray it out with a hose. I ran a Razorback end dump for awhile that didn't have a liner, it wasn't as bad as the XP. But I only haul sands and rocks. I had no idea there are so many different types of sand and rocks....