Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

you ever go over the road much wh? or do you pretty m uch keep your grain wagon local?

 

10-4.....i have been kicking the otr idea around but so far no cigar....pt brokers here in mississippi does alot of otr hopper stuff but i find their rates are pretty low....a few weeks ago i was hauling wet corn about 4mi roundtrip out of the field to a catfish feed plant and it paid 17 cents....i was averaging 8 loads a day at 1000-1100 bu per load....a little over $1400 per day and a grand total of less than 100 mi driven....now show me a broker that can beat that over the road....but the problem here is too many trucks....every mothers son around here drags a ragged truck and hopper outta the weeds come harvest season and they cut the rates because they can afford to...they dont insure trucks or make them legal...and here i am running a $100,000 rig trying to stay afloat...

 

yeah i haul alot elevator to elevator around here it is what we call transfers they dont pay great usually 12-15 cents for a 40 - 45 mi run so we usually only haul them at night....the inland elevators just ship out at night after getting full during the day to empty out on a river barge on a river elevator

 

yes early in harvest not too bad but when its over in texas they come in here lik wood rats.....the worst around here are the democrats that wont insure their trucks or tag them or anything.....

 

but my money season is wintertime....we have government contracts all over the country...me and my grandfather run the largest treeplanting organization in the nation...we do reforestation projects on national wildlife refuges all over the US....very fun work and i love seeing the parts of the refuges that most human eyes never get to see.....heres a video we shot last winter for the conservation fund at mingo nwr in puxico missouri


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CSLndDwbe4