Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Soyhulls, and wheat mids is all I have done with that kinda stuff. Does that load about the same?

 

The Wilson is 6'6". I have only hauled mids a couple times, and haven't gotten a full jag yet. My last load was 78xxx. But, hey, every time I load them, I learn a better way to do it for next time. Tarping can be a little tricky too, but my big frame is actually a plus when stomping the tarp down.

Loading them is kinda fun, I like playing with the air valves lol...

 

I hope you are right, when things get slow you start to see a lot more rate cutting just to make payments. There is one farmer down here that decided to get in the trucking business and went and bought 5 or 6 big trucks and hoppers and the first thing he did was tell them if they would keep him busy he would haul cheaper then the other guys. I hope he looses everything and the farm.

I knew a guy that run a fleet of trucks and when tag time came he didn't have the money to buy tags last year but he had a late model dually pickup that was paid for so he goes to the bank and borrows against the pickup and gets his tags. Three months later he is out of business and lost his pickup to the bank also. Some guys just don't know when to throw in the towel.

 

Houston is a bad area to be running an end dump. It is hard to compete with a $8,000 truck and trailer and 5 family's living in one house. It is hard to make payments and pay the other bills on driving wages. But it is not just Houston it is tough everywhere it seems like.

 

Yes, Haines is correct, I just couldn't remember the name earlier. I actually talked to him earlier this week about buying one of his grain trailers. He said he's going to keep just the grain trailers, and go into a trailer lease/rental business. Otherwise he's selling all his trucks, and getting out of the trucking business all together. Richard said the older trucks would probably head to Mexico, and wasn't sure what was gonna happen with the newer Pete's. He's in his 70's now, and told me he was just too old for the rat race.