Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by wheathauler, May 31, 2009.

  1. Cluck Cluck

    Cluck Cluck LTL Wizard

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    Air is good, I was thinking of getting a glad hand and installing it on a long enough hose to reach the back of the trailer and getting a wand (a long one) also use it for pumping up a tire because you're obviously driving a 80k lb air compressor
     
  2. bullhaulerswife

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    He considered grenades, I'm telling you. Its 105* outside and not only that, but apparently the plant that he loaded on Friday, likes to load the product hot. The entire back was a brick.

    I tell you what, he was wishing that he had his gas auger with us. (no we don't really carry it with us, but its tempting at times)
     
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    Glad you grew your hair back:biggrin_25525:
     
  4. wheathauler

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    Glad I haul grain the DDG sounds bad. Highside, as humid as it's been that load would really worry me.

    Finished up the grain in elevator now augering wheat out of steel bin. There was another company hauling with us but pulled out when we started augering. Many truckers don't like doing that. 106* out right now glad I'm done for the day.
     
  5. HwyPilot

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    Thought about that myself more than a few times! Or some kind of rig you could swing in after you open the door and dig out the bridged product some. I carry a D handle short shovel in the stowage for digging it out, but it's nasty work at some places laying on the pit!

    What I'm planning to do with the trailer is just take a 75' air hose reel (cheap manual type) and hang it in the belly space out of sight. Have that plumbed to a spare air tank running separate of the bags and brakes with a cutoff valve at the reel. Then just quick connect whatever onto it, and store all the tools in the stowage (bunker storage) for now. A 75' hose would reach all the tires from the middle of the trailer (and most of the truck next to you :biggrin_2559:), and it would be a whole lot easier than the glad hand air line and chuck I carry.

    Now, if the places receiving this crap every day would just pony up for an air wand, it'd solve alot of these problems........
     
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    LOL, Yeah :biggrin_25522:

    This place had 4 air wands, and all kinds of shovels, sticks and probes. We finally got out of there at 3pm. We called the broker and told them no more DDG from that plant.

    We are headed into the heat today. Its a scorcher.
     
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    kajidono Road Train Member

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    I wonder if one of those tilling bits that fit a drill would work on that stuff. I mean, the rates would still have to come way up to consider bothering with it again. Or hell, one of those little gas powered tillers to just chew the sides away.
     
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    Hauling corn to the big river. I like watching the barges come round the bend while I wait.
     
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    Well, if the first of the week wasn't bad enough, we just got loaded with 48,000 lbs of rice hulls. It only took 12 hours to get that load. :biggrin_25510:

    No more Stuttgart AR for us.
     
  10. wheathauler

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    Well in hindsight you should have just took the week off, BHW. You just never know what will happen in a day or week of trucking.
     
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