Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

We are having the same weather down here, nice until about three and it has been raining since. Lot of trucks hanging around is that why the rate is low and will they negotiate any? You think they would work a little with their regular home boy truckers but their big business.

 

WH, is that rate hauling off the farm or out of an elevator? Either way it sucks. I can't believe people haul for peanuts like that! So for a 950 bushel load of corn, 70 miles, that's about $ .136 per bushel? Or did you mean you get a dollar a mile each way?

There were some beans cut around here today, I hauled 2 loads for a guy whose truck was broke down. Forecast for rain coming in tonight and tomorrow. Dad and brother had to quit by about 7, the beans were dry but the stems got tough quickly after dark.

 

Down here it is the Johnston Elevators or ADM. If your hauling for a farmer and he uses the Johnston's Elevator they have two lines. One line for semis hauling from another elevator and then the line for farmers. You just put the name of the farm in your window and you don't need to wait very long to unload. If you go to the big ADM elevators you get in line with everyone else. Just like with you the farmers pay better but a lot them have their own trucks to.

 

We've had about .3" so far, pretty lucky, the radar looked like down around St. Louis they were getting hammered. Another day of no hauling, the elevators are basically empty, so they don't have anything to move. Later in the season if we get rained out of the field, usually the elevators need to move corn out, so we keep hauling anyway.

WH, glad to hear that your farmers pay you a fair rate, I was a little worried hearing the quote from ADM, don't know how a person can make a living on that rate?