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Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

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

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  1. Jul 18, 2009 #621
    kajidono

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    Doesn't sound worth it. :biggrin_25510:
     
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  3. Jul 18, 2009 #622
    wheathauler

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    There's days like that...sometimes weeks. Eventually it all evens out. If it didn't trucking could get depressing.
     
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  4. Jul 18, 2009 #623
    Big John

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    It's already depressing when you have to haul for less then it takes you to operate per mile.
     
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  5. Jul 18, 2009 #624
    M.Enterprises

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    Where is that at?
     
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  7. Jul 19, 2009 #625
    wheathauler

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    SC Kansas. The grain companies are keeping their regulars busy. If you haven't ever hauled for them, would be in trouble. Some were only paying a 1.00 a mile which is pretty bad.
     
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  8. Jul 19, 2009 #626
    Big John

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    Go on strike, shut the elevator down, get better rates. That wouldn't work because nobody sticks together and then they would just call the Latinos. Same thing down here the rates are in the toilet for the local hauling. Some guys are parking or going to sell the hoppers and go pull reefers out of the food plant.
     
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  9. Jul 19, 2009 #627
    wheathauler

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    They sure won't stick together...used to a little on rates but then the new outfits came in. There were two or three of us locally that would hold out for better rates. New grain merchant and new outfits came, rates went down.

    You might be smarter going dump...aren't the latinos in that. I think I remember you talking about that.
     
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  10. Jul 19, 2009 #628
    Big John

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    Yeah, but not so much in the OTR stuff, they stay pretty much local and buy the biggest pieces of crap on the road. Their is one of those border jumpers down here that went out and bought a old Fruehauf end dump for $6500 and went to hauling but he is at the tire shop everyday. The outfit he hauls for loves him because he is cheap. It is hard for a guy to compete with a guy that runs $12,000 dollars worth of junk and lives in a house with five other family's and will haul for driving wages. It is going to get worse. I have heard of pulled fifth wheel pins, cut tires, fuel tanks drained and a few other things when rates get cut. I just don't have any respect for anyone that cuts the rates below what it cost to operate. What that don't understand they can haul for the same rate as everyone else if they keep their mouth shut and work together.
     
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  11. Jul 19, 2009 #629
    wheathauler

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    I don't think it has gotten quite that bad here....as far as cut tires etc. Then again I may not have heard about it.

    When the few of us did decide not to haul for their rate, usually within a day they would call back and up the rate. They want to haul it all at a cheap rate rather than a portion of it at a much better rate. Hard to understand that way of thinking.
     
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  12. Jul 20, 2009 #630
    wheathauler

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    Supposed to have been busy this week. Hauled wheat today then told don't come back until at least Friday. Working on the elevator, seems like it always something.

    Guess have to try and find something else for next few days. Other grain companies have lower rates than I'm pulling for now.
     
    wheathauler, Jul 20, 2009
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