Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by wheathauler, May 31, 2009.
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Well, actually did some hauling for Cargill today. It's been a while...they needed beans brought in to their elevator. They are going to load a train but didn't have enough of their own beans to load it. Farmers weren't bringing enough beans in because of weather.
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farmermatt Thanks this.
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It's cold here today. 34 right now with a nasty wind chill. My son in western kansas was getting freezing rain. Seems early for this nasty stuff. Supposed to get freeze tonight...not good for milo.
I use Goodrich for my steering tires...they seem to do pretty good. I also use centramatics. -
I run my own harvest hauling and run more gravel then than any other time and I only store about 10,000 bu on a gravel road (one mile) and most customers are only a quarter mile or so down gravel then I run 250 miles on asphalt so I dont know I dont want to count on the truck causing tire wear if the cheap tire craps out in half the time it became a lot more expensive its just the same old deal korea vs USA vs Chinese ?
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I have centramatics on the steers and drives and had them on since the truck was new and love them. I have about 265,000 on the original drives which are Bridgestones and hope to get another 30 to 40,000 before I change them and have 52,000 on my steers and the last set of steers went a little over 140,000 and they were Michelin's. Most of my miles on them were running Vegas and back every week for two years on a dedicated account and since pulling the dump I won't get the mileage I have had before so I go with a good tire but a cheaper one. I can't see paying $500 for any tire. I am looking at putting Kelly's on the drives the next go around.
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Okay Kansas, I was thinking you were a company driver. Glad you are doing good. I have hauled a few steel coils into Hesston Tractor and have a good friend that is leased to JD Entriprises in Moundridge pulling a flat.
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Wheathauler it is to early for this stuff. I turned the heater on in the house today. What happen to the warm stuff. I hope I have good weather next week, loading for New York on Monday.
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