Fly ash?

I used to haul fly ash in Tennessee and never made as much as you're being offered. That's a good deal for running that stuff. It's a simple job really.
Also had a full benefits package.

 

If memory serves I usually put about 12 pounds on there. Being driven by a 400 horse electric air supply at the ready mix helps keeps that hose alive. I never put more than 15 on the tanker. I keep a little room near the top so that I can work with it should it develop a clog which rarely but does happen now and then.

Ive always been loaded heavy on the stuff.

Parts of the first posting from the OP causes questions. Gives me second thoughts. But the actual doing of flyash is not difficult. Takes a little bit of time to unload.

Don't forget two rubber mallets with good handles. Never use metal hammers against that tanker. It will kill you before you are introduced to anyone, much less good old St Pete at the gates...

Never, ever go top a tank with pressure in it. With one or more bolts off, that hatch will have you dead before your body lands a football field away.

And above all. Never stop for anything. You keep moving. That plant needs that ash now. Like yesterday. Always.

 

I didn't read all of this but I ran it for a while and it was boring and filthy on both ends (power plant to dump).

 

I hauled it power plant to cement plants. They claim it makes the cement stronger, but it may be just an excuse to get rid of it.

 

When we did percentage reefer in NE back in the 80's its not hard to determine based on 25% pay what the truck made overall minus fuel, insurance etc. I did good some weeks, others were not very well. Feast and famine.

Being just a driver you likely will find that you can guess at the rates based on 25% of your pay but you will not have access to close held facts at the very top of whatever company you run for.

Fly ash isnt anything special. In our time we got it out of Redfield which has a coal fired plant in Arkansas to West Little Rock. Whatever they did not get it sold to customers, they dumped in a field and that's a pretty bad job. If memory serves they go through 4 railcars worth of coal in a hour for electricity and a percentage comes out as ash. It's still very useful but nothing particularly special. It's just one of those things that go well with cement and Limestone powder.

Had a MRI inside lungs a decade or so ago, confirmed limestone powder and other contaminants damage in the area where both lungs pass air. It's permanent. But not too bad yet since I got out of it.

Overall tanking in bulk is routine, fun and rather trouble free provided you kept that hose alive and the product moving.

 

Now that is a good post. I'll have to think on that.

Keep in mind, when you bulk tanking like I did, I was not abused much but you just cannot stop. Even 15 minutes to get coffee (Brew your own at home prior to leaving with a thermos) would put the ready mix at risk of running out. Ultimately that was one of the rubbing points with one of them. It wasnt the coffee but musical cars that needed doing when I had to be loading out of Hope AR on 30 which is rail to truck for cement by sunrise. Shrugs. Always something.

The word 1099 tells me that you will be obligating Dear Uncle Sam for quarterly taxes on everything you make.

There were companies that told me smoke and mirriors too at times and handed me a inch thick stack of forms to sign. What's this? That? Over these? never you mind, sign. Not until you exlain this that and these.

Sigh, ok fine... and ended not hiring on with them sometimes. If it does not feel right it might not be.

Good luck to you. Just look out for your self and home as much as you can.

 

Somebody's got to ask the tough questions,
Since this job search has been going on for months now.
You must have a lot of money in the bank by the way.

Is there something on your driving record or DAC
That keeps steering you to these shady bottom
Feeder jobs. Or are you chasing the big money
In their advertisements.

You don't seem to want a legitimate,good,
High paying job with a solid company that
Doesn't Use all these gimmicks to suck you in.

You passed over career linehaul jobs to deal with
Old school trucking crooks.
I'd bet everything I have ,That these places your looking
At are run by some 65 year old ex trucker who drove
In the 70's. Popped pills and ran coast to coast.
Probably changed his own tires on the side of the road.

They Bought a few trucks and here you are.
There not smart enough to figure out all the
New rules and regulations, so they dump all
Responsibilities onto the driver. It's easier that way.

They could care less what happens to you,as
Long as they don't have to get behind the wheel
Anymore and put up with DOT and e-logs.

Why pay a mechanic to do a full DOT inspection.
That comes out of his pocket.
Driver gets a ticket, ill blame it on him, charge him for the repairs and I'll just take it out of his check.
You fixed his truck for him or bought tires for him.
These are dirtbag operations.

There all over Texas. I've worked for a couple myself.
Until I wised up and got hip to their ########.
You take these jobs when you done something
Wrong somewhere else and can't get a good job.

Put up with the crap for as long as it takes to
Clear your record,then get the hell out of there.

We don't know what your looking for.
Money,outlaw trucking,home time, what.