Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

No one I have spoken to has the kind of dh we do.... A driver told me he pays 700/mo for a new timpte with 2500dn I wanted to cry


this load was a last minute put together load to get me to a "better area" uuuuhhh RRRiiiigghtttt!!!!! what good does a better area do if I'm already so far in the hole?????


I'm gonna catch some zzzz's before making a run for the border... LOL

 

hey iv got one lumber tarp but got my steel tarps on ebay $175 a pc 16x20shipped to the house x2 for $420 and that was south fla

 

There are several ways to wire up your lights on a trailer, the easiest, I thought, was back before ABS, just use that center connector and have it wired to a switch in the cab. You could still do that I guess, just wouldn't have ABS when your lights weren't on.

The way I've got ours now, they are on an switch mounted in the front wall of the trailer. Gets its power off of the back of the trailer plug from clearance lights, that way if you forget and have the switch on in the daytime, they aren't on unless the clearance lights are on. I haven't had good luck with switches, seems like the guts of them corrode apart, only last a year or so. I asked the guys at NAPA if they had anything more heavy duty for outside use, and they didn't. It has a rubber boot over the toggle on the front, and the back part where the wires hook up, I covered it all in silicone, and it still failed in about a year. Still have to get out and turn them on, that's the inconvenient thing. The ultimate way would be to run another pigtail from the truck and put a switch(s) in the dash.

Or just have enough chicken lights that your trailer glows from every angle

 

oh wheat ,harborfreight dont have what we need ,got one buy the house and checked it out,also ,google chains and binders harbor frieght has some chains and binders but look at there strenght has to be 70 or better an i got mine from a locale dealer in south fla and if i remember right i paid 45 50 bucks a chainx10

 

Yeah, that was the same site I was lookin at. The problem is, the higher ups don't want to pay for tarps but want us to run the good loads. Well, the good loads require tarps and this cheap plastic stuff ain't cutting it. So me and my dispatcher are looking at getting some tarps ourselves and splitting the cost.

 

I actually bought a step deck friday and need to go pick it up at highway trailer at KC 98 doonan 50 foot spread axle with dovetail mainly to haul hay on as I have 6000 bales to haul about 70 miles this should fill in for hopper work quite well and might turn out to be more profitable who knows? its on truck paper still pretty easy to look up gave 14,500 road ready new brakes & full dot

 

UGHHHHHHHHHH, I don't even want to admit the $$$$ amount I am leasing a 99' Wilson for, I am freaking embarrassed I made that kind of business decision, but I wanted a change, and cash is short at the moment.

Will be PB&J sammiches for me for the next 6 months, until I can buy a trailer, or at least swing a decent down payment.

 

You or 5mouths get down this way I have 1/2 or maybe its a 1/3 tarp one of you guys can have. Its been sitting in a shed for six or eight years, so it may be ate up. It isnt doing me any good just sitting there, maybe one of you guys could get some use out of it? I found it on the side of the road years ago, unrolled it once, rolled it back up, threw it in a shed and there its sat ever since.

Better than a kick in the ### anyways right lol?