Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

We had 47 this morning, hope it didn't hurt the beans. There's that dang global warming for ya.

 

lol.... those are Maine and Massachusetes rates remember. this is the cheapest place in the country. I came in with every expectation of deadheading back out to at least up state new york

 

I got enough on the rate coming in to dedhead to NY and still be okay.

the rates out of TX are low but not THIS low. lol

 

I think we are probably a month away, corn is still green as can be, as are beans except for a few sudden death places showing up in the beans now. I got the break I was wanting, elevator is done with us for a while unless something unforseen happens. They're close enough to empty that they are going use the rest of their inventory to keep their own trucks busy. This was our busiest summer ever, so I have no complaints.

Got a ton of stuff to get done, going to Ohio to pick up fence posts this week, got to go over both hoppers, wash, inspect, and get them ready. One of them has road oil splattered all down one side- dad was waiting at a one-lane construction zone, they gave him the go sign, got halfway through and around a blind curve, here came the traffic from the other direction. All he could do was pull into the oil they'd already put down to pave on and stop, but the oil still went everywhere. The truck is bad, but the trailer is a nightmare. The only time I'd wished we had black hoppers!

 

I was talking to a salesman at the freightliner dealer last week and he said that 47% of fist time truck buyers defaulted withing 90 days in the last quarter