Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

i have been pulling a dump for the past year....i have pulled both the dump and hopper....my opinion id rather have the dump trailer....just my opinion

 

Hope everyone has a good profitable week and a safe one I am heading out the door to go and play in the Colorado snow with my 18 skies. Hope it isn't all that bad. Well I am running behind schedule, see ya.

 

I have yanked them both around myself,PeteLover,and you do have a LOT more freight options with the dump,i just couldn't get used to having to block up one side of the dump to get 'er level. My old nerves ain't what they used to be,I guess i'm just a ''scardy-cat'',but i sure don't miss having to worry about whether its going to be level or not when i get to a receiver.You know everyone always says ''yeah,yeah,it's nice and flat where your going to have to dump''.Do you pull a frame or frameless dump?

Wheathauler,you got all the grandkids gathered around telling them some good ''grandpa stories yet?

Stay safe out there,Big John.

 

(Terrible lurker coming out of the woodwork here)

Ya'll know there are two different kinds of guys that pull dump wagons? There are the ones who have turned one over and the ones that haven't-yet.

 

Got your irons on board? I skipped through there a year ago and got pulled at the port of entry as I was leaving. Lucky they never asked to see my chains.......

 

We see this alot this time of year in the dry bulk industry! Also my dad hauls alot of feed ingreedients and thats how shippers and brokers get by with out charging storage. The oldest trick in the book!!!!! Although in dry bulk we get to charge dimarriage after two hours so that tends to help.

 

frameless and about the two types of drivers idk if i could be in the turned one over category or not but i came pretty ##### close one time lol