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

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  1. Jul 10, 2009 #491
    Les2

    Les2 Road Train Member

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    Yeah thats what I figured, I was just making fun of the wireless part.

    Even those digital readout ones go off of airride.
     
    Les2, Jul 10, 2009
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  3. Jul 10, 2009 #492
    Big John

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    All his hoppers have trucks under them and the yard was empty so he will have to go buy one unless someone quits. At the moment I am not leased to anyone as 2pm this afternoon. Have to go and pull all my headache rack and chains of the truck and go from their.
     
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  4. Jul 10, 2009 #493
    wheathauler

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    Good Luck, If it as hot there as it is here. I believe our heat index is 107 or some crazy number like that. Be nasty and hot but I guess it has to done. Don't get a heat stroke.
     
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  5. Jul 10, 2009 #494
    Big John

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    I wasn't going to do it rite now, I will get up early in the am when it is cooler. lol

    The bank said it was 113 here today.
     
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  7. Jul 10, 2009 #495
    wheathauler

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    Actually this was the fastest wheat harvest in Kansas in years. It's just getting started in Nebraska. It's hard to say if it will get busy.

    If prices go up farmers will wait to sell..Elevators won't have grain to move. If they go down some will sell. In 2007 when we had the bad frost there was hardly any wheat around. I figured would be bad summer but I ran hard all summer, so who knows.

    It will move eventually...I've seen elevators store wheat for two years. They usually move a lot of wheat out before fall havest but this year? If it continues to stay hot with no rain there will be less wheat moved. If it gets cooler and rains in August will be moving wheat hard.
     
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  8. Jul 10, 2009 #496
    wheathauler

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    That's too dang hot.
     
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  9. Jul 10, 2009 #497
    Big John

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    Does any in the elite hopper fleet hear (lol) ever follow the harvest north? For years I have seen trucks come from all over to Enid to haul in June. Not as much as years past. I remember when the motels would fill up around here and a guy could make a thousand dollars a day hauling during harvest and fuel was way below a dollar, but those days are long gone. I see trucks from Iowa, Kansas and Missouri mostly. Didn't now where they went when they left Oklahoma.
     
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  10. Jul 10, 2009 #498
    wheathauler

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    Up to Kansas, Nebraska and then some go farther north yet, up to the dakotas.
     
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  11. Jul 10, 2009 #499
    Les2

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    What do you hopper guys haul in the off season?
     
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  12. Jul 10, 2009 #500
    wheathauler

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    I used to haul to ethanol plants until some closed. Now haul wheat and beans locally and some out of state. Usually busy with fall harvest until early Nov. Jan & Feb can be slow.
     
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