Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

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  1. PharmPhail

    PharmPhail Road Train Member

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    Wheathauler there are basically unlimited loads right now from Chilicothe, OH to Statesville and Elkin in NC, $.65/bushel. Seems like some decent loads one way anyway. Let me know if you or anyone else want some contact info.

    I'm grabbing some Anderson SC to Newton, NC loads... but their hours suck... I'll be hard pressed to get 2 done a day. This is wheat.
     
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    Thanks, I don't have a very big radius on my insurance. Most of my the loads are usually within 100-300 mile radius. I live where there is a terminal elevator, which means the grain is brought to it from other smaller elevators. I usually deadhead out and bring grain back to elevator. They usually pay enough to make it worthwhile recently it hasn't been too good.
     
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    I don't either :biggrin_25522:
     
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    i haul a hopper in my spare time. day cab hauling corn from the farm.
     
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    I would imagine you would be busy during fall harvest with the corn. I would guess you haul the corn to on farm storage during harvest.
     
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    Exactly why hubby walked away, no ran away from the bullrack! :biggrin_25525: He hauls commodities, mostly, not grain. Although, he did do wheat harvest last year in KS. Down by Russell.

    Grain isn't paying around here, but we are doing OK on the commodities.

    I hope that your wrong about the vibrators, he just got a set installed this last week. Hauled a load of M&B meal after loading in the rain, had to shovel about 3 ton, and said enough is enough.

    Check out my thread about ADM in Clinton, IA. Its a place to avoid, if possible, unless its the only load you can find coming back.

    Here's his rig with the hopper behind it.

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    PharmPhail Road Train Member

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    Love those black trailers!
     
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    How many bushel can you guys haul?
     
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    I think the vibrators help, they should anyway. It would have to be better than shoveling a load out. When some of that stuff sets up it's a bear to get out. I've heard of drivers hauling rock when it was cold and the rock was wet. The load would freeze in the hopper.

    Anything is hard to get out if it raining while loading.I try to avoid that if at all possible. I do like the black trailers too.
     
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    I can haul 900 bushels wheat, 950 corn or milo,900 beans, Around 54,000. Puts my gross weight a little over 80,000. I'm fairly light at 26,600 fuel half full. I have a friend who weighs 2,000 lbs less than me.

    To be really legal probably have to haul 10 bushels less.
     
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