Hauling chips or rock in ARK

Hey hey hey! First what part of AR are you moving to? Cause we neeeed some lease drivers bad. Oakley is a good place to look as well. I believe they supply the trailer, but they do have a age cut off on the truck. You have Hines truck lines in either Prescott or Hope.. I forget. They lease chip haulers. Buuut I haven't seen a O/O pulling one of their trailers in a long time. The one guy that I remember pulling for them is now at Oakley now.

 

some of the chip trailers have walking floors but most of them they just drop on a lift which tilts the whole trailer in the air to dump them

 

Bruce Oakley is the company me and him are talkign about. I forget there is also a company just called Oakley but that's a tanker company

 

I think the Oakley tanker line is out of Florida... Maybe? Bruce Oakley is a OTR gig as far as I know.

As for chips you can use a live bottom and still dump on the tippers. I ran one when the mills went down so I could just pull in past everyone, dump and go. All the mills here are tipper dumps. But that stuff is slowing down some. Especially since there is work of the huge Flakeboard plant shutting its doors here in town.

I'm in a little town 30 minutes south of Little Rock.
We're getting more accounts by the day and there's no good drivers to be found. So we're stretched a little too thin. Actually getting accounts that were originally done by a big company that I can't name as of yet. because I don't think they know they lost the account and I'm sure there are one or two of their drivers on here.

 

I got the feeling from there website that they were an otr company too. I'd love to find something out one night too

 

Man you're not gonna be a bother at all. Any help you need just hollar, even if you don't lease on with us. I'm always around here or there.

Our lease drivers have their own trailers. I think there is a couple Razorbacks at the yard but thats a good way to go broke if you have a heavy tractor and I'm not tooo sure that they are really workable right now. Most of us are short end dump. 22ft. We are starting some longer haul stuff with 35's and 39's. But thats kind of limited to company drivers right now. Dirt work is semi-seasonal around here. You'll run like hell during the summer but in the winter a lease driver won't run as much. Or they get put on the shorter runs so the company guys can make a nickle with the longer ones.

You can run on your own but there are alot of haulers around here. Also alot of quarrys too though. Only one sand plant that I know of and its in downtown Little Rock.

Only bad thing is DOT is a mutha on us around these parts. 99% of the time they don't care what kind of shape your equipment is in. They just want to know what you weigh. 3 weeks ago I got stopped by the same DOT man twice within a hour. Got a 2450 over ticket the first time and the 2nd I was a legal 73,280.

You can try Oakley to see if they can give you a dedicated local haul. I know they feed a plant in Hot Springs with something they load out of Little Rock. Its only a hour to a hour/half trip. Also they haul pea gravel to local concrete plants.

Ask all the questions you want to know man. If I don't know the answers I know the people who will. Except Oakley stuff. I hardly ever run into their end dump guys. I see the bulk tanker guys all day long though.

 

A razorback is just a brand of trailer. The only ones I've seen are all steel and heavier than hell. I pulled one with a big sleeper pete and my empty weight was 31000+. With a aluminum trailer it went down to 26500. Now I have a little daycab pete and a frameless all aluminum 22ft hilbilt xp and my empty weight is 24500. I can get a legal 24 to 24.5 tons at a time. With the long trailer you are good up to 80k on the big roads here. With the shorts you are only allowed 73280. But on secondary roads you can run 80k... which makes no sence but I've had enough weight tickets to just go with what they say.

As for the chips I pulled a 40ft and a 45ft peerless open topped chip wagon. A 48ft possum belly and a 48ft peerless live bottom (walking floor).

If your truck weighs 17500, a 22ft hilbilt xp weighs roughly 8500. Then you will be able to get right at 23 to 23-3/4 tons at a time. Which isn't really that bad.

Actually the little sand plant runs really smoothly! And its really little... Not much of a wait.. half the time I pull straight in under the hopper and get loaded. Grab my ticket and go. Right now the river is so high that we're having to load under a track-hoe with a clam shell bucket. So its taking a little longer. Really it takes twice as long to get loaded at the huge quarries than it does at the sand plant.