Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Kinda depends on the weather and the yields. The farmers I haul for, don't have a whole lot. They have a combine that cuts fast too. Would be done with them easily in a week. Southwest Kansas has a lot of corn or did, they've had some bad hail recently.

I would think overall corn harvest should last at least 2 weeks. Dryland corn may be toast if doesn't get rain soon.

 

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I pretty much haul exclusively for one elevator (company).

Harvest around here normally starts in early to mid Sept and goes till late October. Last year was really strange because the corn was so late getting planted due to the wet spring, I don't think we got a load of corn out of the field till October. And it lasted till almost Thanksgiving. This year could be even more strung out, there was a little corn planted early, then a little here and there, seemed like forever. Shoot, there were people still trying to put beans in the ground last week. And part of it depends on how much the big boys want to dry their wet corn down. Most medium and small farmers around here let their corn dry in the field as much as they can stand to.

During harvest, I tell farmers that call me to get in touch with the elevator, and they might send me, or they might send another truck, but they stand a better chance of getting a truck that way. I just can't be in 3 places the same day if 3 people call me. My dad uses our other truck to haul our own grain till we get done, then joins me hauling for the elevator. We're not big farmers, so one semi keeps up with our stuff ok.

 

There's been a lot of beans planted here. Not as much hauling with beans...dryland around 30 to 40 bpa here. Corn definitely keeps you busy and then some. Have milo here too, depends on yield can get up to 100 bpa but thats a very good year.

You have a good arrangement with elevator hopefully stays that way. I thought I did too but that fell by wayside when more trucks came here...Hauled cheaper...and wanting to haul it all.

 

I hauled beans one harvest from a big Mississippi farm to a port on the Mississippi river, pretty good deal at the time. Hauled a little rice also.

 

Same as cash.

 

You start pulling hopper in this general area will haul a lot of beans. Probably to Wichita, I have heard there's a bean mill in Texas somewhere.

 

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As someone stated on this forum you could probably haul corn in NE for esclipse. Heck could probably haul wheat now. Know it's a long ways from where you live though. Probably pay good for few weeks work.

 

Does the other commodities pay a little more then wheat, like corn, beans, milo or is it the same.

 

Sometimes a little different. Mainly because beans and wheat are 60lb.bushel... Corn and milo 56 lbs to a bushel. I have low sides so can only haul 900 bu beans...they just take more room. One outfit pays by hundred weight for everything which really confuses things.