Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Big John i know your hauling in and around oil well stuff now. Have you seen or know anything about maalt transportation. A texas based company pulling phneumatics hauling frac sand. Im courious there exspanding into wichita area. Im looking at it kinda serious but cant find much about the company good or bad. Is that kind of buiss up and down and if its too wet do they still work. Anyonelse know anything about them please chime in. The recruiter claims home most nights and most weekends off, $3500 sign on bonus.60k a year.Thanks Crop Jocky

 

Interesting start to harvest here. Most around the 74/57 area of IL have switched to beans as corn is still in the in the 23's with low yeilds. We did some corn, went South for some bean going into a bin and then switched to Corn that we are drying in a bin.

205-210 bu/acre. Wow. Off the charts for the area and even that field. I am not sure that it will hold for other fields but impressed so far.

Hard part is because we are going from the field to the bin I have been sitting and with others doing beans no contract work. But I am sure that once it get's going it is going to be crazy.

 

Loaded bean meal at Cargill,Wichita today. I haven't loaded there in some time, looks like they've cleaned it up quite a bit. I like that. crop jockey ; don't really know anything about Maalt Transport for sure, but they are HUGE in Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. Their equipment seems to be well taken care of and you can't drive far without seein'um.

 

Farmer I work with is always on the top end of yields. He is very detailed about what he does year to year. But he was surprised by these numbers.

Insurance is going to be paid out big time on beans this year. I'm hearing 30's on fields that would produce 60's.

Well, big corn yeilds are good for my contract loads.

 

I will watch for them but haven't been paying much attention to whose hauling sand. I do see a lot of trucks parked around Woodward with Texas tags. I here they are doing a lot of drilling around Anthony. I have had some friends leased to some sand hauling outfits and they have made real good money even one that made around 300k one year and only run about 60k miles but that was before every Tom, Dick, Harry and Sherry got in the business. Their is a lot of money to be made in the oil field right know, My neighbor just quit JB Hunt and went to work hauling water at $60k a year and home every night and if he went on the night shift it would have paid more. I have a friend here that sold his truck about three years ago and showed me his W-2 from last year he made $78k hauling crude oil and was home every night.

Their is a demand for drivers in the oil fields and pay and benefits are excellent plus most are running new equipment. The company that I haul for have seven or eight of their own trucks and their drivers get paid an hourly wage plus and they have been getting 70 hors a week and the company pays their insurance for the entire family. You might try High Serria they are looking for drivers pulling tanks and have a yard in Medicine Lodge. They may let you keep a truck in Wichita. If I can help let me know.

 

Speaking of drilling around Anthony, word through the grapevine is that they've discovered a significant source of oil in Harper county. Might be some good money to be made down there in the near future.

 

I seen an ad for these guys in our Sunday paper looking for drivers, dispatcher, mechanic and field supervisors for their western Oklahoma office. I also remember seeing their trucks out west after seeing their logo in their ad. The have plain white late model Freightliners pulling late model tanks.

 

Thanks big john for the info. I appreciate it. crop jocky

 

Must be getting tough to find trucks. I have had at least three brokers call me in the last two weeks looking for trucks and I am not hooked up with any of them, I guess they got my name and number off the Internet. I had Gavilon fertilizer call me today looking for some trucks, I told him I parked mine do to lack of good paying loads and he told me that he is hearing that from several owners. Hint, Hint.

I have been loading rock out of the quarry at Southard, OK to oilfield leases and have had two brokers email me about loads out of there going to the Tulsa area with rates that I wouldn't start my truck for but seen Heads in there today loading a hopper. I guess they need a cheap load to go get another cheap load. What surprised me the driver loaded legal.