Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Who's TMA Wheathauler?

 

Team Marketing Alliance out of Moundridge, ks. They are a part of Mid Kansas Co-op. They haul grain for about 30 some elevators in SC Kansas. They don't pay to bad but will lay you off in winter if you aren't a regular hauler for them. Regular means been with them a long,long, long time. I hauled for them 3 summer fall harvests but still was laid off in winter.

 

Same way with the grain brokers or the big elevators here, you pretty much have to stay dedicated to them year round and not haul for anyone else even if they don't have anything going on. I know of two guys that went to some smaller coop elevators and set up to haul for them and got a decent rate to haul all their grain and fertilizer etc. and they stay busy most of the time but don't get their hands slapped when they haul for someone else when the elevator is slow.

I had a feed broker/trucking outfit tell me he had a guy that started with him a few years ago and he went from one truck to six or seven and then went with another broker for awhile until that went bad then wanted to come back because all his trucks were sitting and no work, he told him to bad but you left me and I don't need you.

 

Problem is even being dedicated to one elevator still doesn't mean you will have work. I had pulled with Cargill for years and did all right. They got a new dispatcher and bottom feeders came and out went the regulars.

 

wheathauler, do you run alcohol in your brake system this time of year?

 

loyalty is a forgotten concept,THATS WHY I DON"T CUT RATES,my service is consistent,so i see no need to be inconsistent with my rates. that is just my .02

 

Well Dairyman, our Bears finished off with a win. Beating the Lions isn't much to brag about, but it beats a poke in the eye with a stick. 7-9, once again, the Monsters of Mediocrity.

 

I don't on my kenworth but on my freightliner I did have to put some in. Maybe I have a better air dryer on kenworth.

 

Shoot I'd settle for that from the Chiefs.

 

Havent been to Lyons yet, would welcome the change...

Chiefs put a whoopin on Denver tonight. Shocking!!!

Crop Jockey, I am leased onto Bar R out of Hesston.

Jantz = Amish wanna-be's