Fly ash?

Why? Why should you run the other way from a company that ENCOURAGES illegal behavior by covering all tickets? Driver makes a choice whether or not to speed, so driver should pay. Driver makes a choice whether or not to run overweight, so driver should pay. Driver makes a choice whether or not to properly secure a load or equipment, so driver should pay. Driver makes the choice to run down the road with lights out, bad tires, faulty brakes, etc..., so driver should pay. The only time the company ought to cover the cost of a ticket is if the driver informed the company of a situation and the company said "run it anyway."

I'd be leery of any company with a policy of covering any/every ticket any of their drivers receive. CSA score probably isn't all that great as a result of drivers not caring because tickets don't come out of THEIR pockets, even though they do. Lower pay, higher likelihood of being inspected, etc...

 

Man,that just makes me itch. I only pull 22%,but I'm on a W-2 and typically NET $900/wk. Any feed mills in your area? Thats what I haul(bagged animal feed) and it keeps me busy year around. Feed operations use a LOT of trucks from bringing in the raw materials to shipping the finished product.

 

Your job search gets better everyday.
I hope you don't get a job for another
3 months.
I enjoy reading about these flim flam
Companies telling you one thing, then
Change it all up when it's time to work.

 

Try Headwaters. They run out of Bremond, if I remember correctly.

 

Just a random thought, (seem to have a lot of these lately,)

My brother in law worked with fly-ash.
He's got some blood disease, not leukemia, but it produces too many red blood cells; forget the name.
They put fly-ash in cement cause it is toxic waste and expensive to dispose of.
Google fly-ash and mercury.
Google EPA superfund sites in Pa.
Me to you....Do something else.

 

I remember Gary Grey dump trailers running ash into Alliance landfill in Taylor Pa years ago. Originally the landfill loved it and used it as cover for the trash. Then they found out how toxic it was and made them dump it onto plastic sheets ,sort of quarantineing it . Then each driver had to bring a sample in a sealed bucket for testing.
They used frameless dumps ,and rolled a bunch over dumping in the landfill.
As far as sketchy companies out there there are a lot. A lot of them are foreigners only in the business a few months
You usually can tell by the wording in there ads ,with misspelled words and always on 1099. I call them sometimes just for pure entertainment. Half of them sound like Borat or Dracula and from "Eastern Europe" or from Bangladesh.
There also the Hillbillys who think $800 a week in 2018 is good money, because Billy Bob at the trailer park Driving the rusted out 1993 Silverado with 3 teeth will work for that all day long. I made more than that in 1986 when I started driving. A $1000 a week was my bare minimum as a company driver 20 years ago. Today ,with the cost of living and the current freight rates due to the economy, driver shortage ,and ELD's a good driver ,with experience and clean record should at least make $1500 a week or better. Anything less and your really selling yourself short. I know it's different in different areas of the country ,but driver pay catching up to the rest of the trades or professions in the US is a big part of the driver shortage.
The same thing happened in the nursing profession.
Demanding ,sometimes dirty job with poor pay for the job years ago created a nursing shortage. They raised the pay
To somewhat what it should be and now there's no shortage ,and the nursing schools are swamped with applicants. My friends wife went back to nursing school
In her late 40's and when she graduated she landed a nursing job paying $35 an hour to start. The same thing needs to happen in the trucking profession . Weed out the nitwits they hire at the mega carriers who should be stocking shelves somewhere or working the fryer at McDonald's instead of being behind the wheel of a 80k lb or heavier rig . When I see some of these clowns trying to be YouTube stars and telling you " what the real deal is" after there 3 months at prime it's nauseating to think this is the state of this profession. The carriers claim this is all they can find as drivers and they have to put ##### in seats ,but if they paid a good wage and didn't make drivers live out of a truck for weeks on end like a vagabond Gypsy they have better people entering the profession. People who make better decisions. Don't smash their trucks up on a regular basis ,don't get stranded in the wilderness ,or drive out on a boardwalk at the seashore because their GPS told them to etc.
Okay my rant is over (for now! )lol!

 

One of the places we haul ash out of has some nasty stuff in it. It typically goes in concrete. When the finishing crews are passing out from the ammonia in the ash, it's a good indicator of just how toxic the stuff is.

Anyways, around here, fly ash is slowly dying out. There's still some around to haul, but it's getting scarce. And many of the out of work sand haulers have driven the rates in the toilet.