Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

LOL! I guess I should have thought before I typed...i delivered on tuesday morning. Of course, I had to stop by the house on the way down and see momma! Bunge in Atchison doesn't start loading hominy till 2 pm, but my ddg was coming out of mgp, and they load 24 hours.

 

Any of you all ever haul chicken meal before? How hard is it to unload?

 

Shipper told me chicken meal, thats all i know. Just wondering how hard it comes out of trailer. Its a long haul so it will be on there over the weekend.

 

Someone told me it actually comes out better in warm weather, unlike ddgs. It loads out of sedalia mo.

 

Sound like to me if I ever buy a bigger hopper and haul some of the stuff you guys haul I might need to carry around a few sticks of dynamite. I use to haul Wheat Mids a lot years ago and don't think I ever had a problem with them coming out except for a few wet loads out of Wichita.

Not for sure what product it was but the company I was leased to had a driver load this stuff and it was hot when loaded in a brand new hopper and the stuff would not come out and it was a big ordeal. He brought the trailer back to the yard after getting it empty and when you looked inside of it the inside looked real rusty like and it wasn't smooth anymore it was all ruff. They had to do some pretty good cleaning and buffing then all they hauled with was grain for a while to get it back smooth again. I just can't remember what it was but they never hauled it again.

 

Well I am glad you corrected that for us, I was beginning to think you was just a lazy driver that showed up a day late. You know like some of your competition does.

Yeah it was Hominy I loaded and I was first truck and they finally started on me around 3:30 that afternoon.

 

If it's sticking to the sides I wonder if those thick sheets of heavy duty plastic paneling we used in our dump trucks to protect the sides would help. It's bolted in semi permanent where you can replace the panels individually as they wear out, which takes quite a while even hauling rock.