Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Going to be slow week. Just hauling to ethanol plant. Me and fifty other trucks, good heavens there are a lot of trucks there. Bean plant closed until next Monday, and elevators trying to get more milo out to ethanol plant.

They want it out before harvest hits. As usual they wait too long to get grain out. Harvest is funny can't wait to start then can't wait for it to end. It's one to three weeks of non stop hauling. Some trucks start in Texas and follow it up to the dakotas.

 

RW

I'll exchange my cargill for your cargill. Yours can't be any worse. Lucky if you leave elevator an hour after they're supposedly open in the morning. Then they load trains when we are supposed to be loading out. They close at 3:45. Then they wonder why we haven't hauled many loads.

 

Pharm, your run doesn't make my day sound so bad. I would hate to think 4 PM was the start of my day. The only good thing about those hours traffic shouldn't be so bad. Hopefully they pay enough to make it all worthwhile.

The bean plant in Wichita is open 24 hours which is pretty nice. I least you have some options on when to deliver.

 

My grain merchant from hell called. He seemed to think there would be no problem to haul 80,000 bushels of beans in two days. Granted, bean plant open 24 hours but elevator isn't. It takes an hour to get to bean plant. However, bean plant has been closed for two weeks so everybody and his brother will also be there.

I guessing he will want 15-20 trucks to haul on it. The parking lot holds maybe thirty, I'm sure other trucks will be there. I see a problem.

 

Interesting, that would be different unloading there.

 

WallyGator

Did you get your hopper trailer yet?

 

The paper said harvest was a week away in southern tier of counties. Hopefully sooner, the loads are getting scarce. I'm thinking this wheat may be ready to cut for the southern half at the same time. Bad for farmers good for truckers. Also makes for long lines at the elevator.