Hauling Livestock

No one makes it off load board rates. Those things only exist cause someone with no business owning a livestock wagon buys one to join the cool club. They haul a few loads and fizzle out. I remember when we were all but a closed society

 

In our area it's still pretty much closed to outsiders. The faces change but it's almost always the same families that have been doing it for years. Once in awhile some outfit will send a salesman through here and he might even drum up a little business but the accounts he gets are the ones that nobody will haul for anyway.
My son and I run a few cows. It's a cow/calf deal, nothing fancy, but we like to know we can trust our hauler to get the calves to town every year. So far we've used the same guy for about twenty five years.

 

Exactly I go to the same places year after year. Take them to the same feedlot etc. I have learned when someone is missing from the usual group don’t ask about them.......it may be a hard story for the family to tell.

 

I don't know about the rest of the country but I imagine it's pretty much the same. I was born and raised in this area and a lot of the people I do business with are either relatives or people I've known all my life. We tend to stick with what we know and who we're familiar with.
I still buy my fencing supplies and most of my feed from the grandson of the man my Grandfather bought them from.
The place I live has been in our family since the 1850s. It's grown some but whatever we take on has to pay for itself. LOL...Sometimes that takes a while.
That being said, we're not perfect. Long way from it. We have the same squabbles and different attitudes and make the same mistakes as anybody else. We have our share of lazy people, drunks, loafers, dopers, and all the rest of the bad things that come with any society.
We've just had more experience. at patching up misunderstandings than most people.

 

The guys with the big shiny polished rigs usually farm all summer or have other sources of income so keep that in mind if you have dollar signs in your eyes watching cow truck videos online like every other young guy.