Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

WH there's a guy in last week's Delta Farm Press advertising new aluminum Timptes for $27000. What's up with that?

 

It's Crossroads of the South. I went to their website and they've got several listed but no prices.

 

Assuming it's 60lbs/bu (I may be off - that's a guess) and you can haul 50k, that'd be near $1/mi - sounds like a waste of time to me. Personally, I think the only way some of these rates can be run is to pull heavy (illegal) and tear your equipment to pieces......

I hauled wheat to get me to a load of lamb meal on Monday, and it paid .50/bu for 202 miles. Wasn't a bad load, but the lamb meal was a disaster. I won't go into details because I just knew better, I'd been there back in February - different building, different scales, same crap as before. Nothing like an 1,100 mile "backhaul" to get me to a good paying load. Leaves me feeling like I wasted half a week!

 

Ill be heading down there in the morning in a black t600 tandem and a merritt pup, coming down hwy 50, too bad about the elevator in russell, and those trailers are probably 30 foot single hoppers

 

They ran the ad again this week. 2011 models aluminum,40 and 42 ft., $27000 including FET, FOB David City, NE. Spring ride, ladders, radial rubber, Shur-LOK tarps, Steel wheels. I knew the springs were cheaper but I didn't know they were that much cheaper. We've got all air ride. I do pull 1 spring Timpte in La.

 

Interesting

 

I did a google search for Russell, KS grain elevator accident and read about it, that's really horrible, 2 young guys get killed that are just starting out in life. I didn't see where it said anywhere, was it an overhead concrete silo or steel bin? I wonder how old?

Sorry to hear about your turbo, WH. That's the way it is, you make some money and your truck decides it wants it.....