Hopper, Dump O/O's & Drivers

Hopefully it will rain a little and bring the wheat on for yall. We have had plenty of rain in NE Arkansas. Fertilize hauling is picking up a little too, keeping my young son a stepping. Between the fertilizer and hauling to the barge he has been covered up. We was a little worried and hopeing for a Riceland card but looks like he is gonna be ok for now.

 

I have only been so-so busy. I just can't haul for what they're paying anymore. I must be missing something. I see more and more hoppers, and I just don't get it.

 

It's the American gold rush syndrome. If one person hits a good strike everybody wants in. Before you know it market is flooded and were all broke

 

I've been lucky and have been getting some decent rates but there are some cheap ones especially ones going to feedlots. Could haul some beans to Wichita but don't want to mess with the lines...they were bad maybe they're better now.

 

Sand haulers use hoppers. Have you ever hauled sand? I hear that is a booming business north of Denver and a lot less sacrificial and less dangerous than working in North Dakota or Texas but pays almost as good. There are dozens of companies in need of hopper drivers such as Links, RMT TRUCKING, DILLON, JUSTICE, ROCKIN T, among many others. Is it any different than or is there a big difference in yearly pay compared to other types of bulk?

 

I or we haven't run any other bulk trailers so I can't say about the pay. Hauling sand here in Ar with a hopper was a joke. The roads out of the pits were awful. Rates and waits were bad, and sand wears worse than any fertilize or other material we ever hauled

 

Hum? interesting, I wonder if there's anything other than sand that could be hauled to Ar.... there's got to be some material that is in demand and can be found in Colorado.... Either way, if anyone is hurting for money and don't mind living out of the truck for most of the month, Colorado has a deep need for sand hualers..... (trucks do get pretty beat up, but the pay is pretty good). Do you by any chance have a list of all the materials you have hauled? maybe I could run it by some dispatchers and brokers and see what they think?

 

Rice, soybeans, corn, mill feed, salt, rice and soybean hulls, bone meal, blood meal, lime, cotton seed hulls, cotton seed mill, and to many different fertilize applications to count. Which by the way is the best money coming in this time of year. The sand they were hauling here in hoppers was two separate hauls. They had a from the actual pit to processing facility, which was hard on the truck. They also had a from processing to rail head which was a good haul road wise. Neither was more than a 50 mile turn 12 to 14 hrs a day, which explains the wear on a trailer.

 

Hi, just wanted to introduce myself in this thread. I hauled in hopper bottoms in and out of Canada a few months. I hauled wheat, flax seed, pea bran, salt, dried distillers grain, potash, and urea. I only have 7 months experience.

My payment was erratic, so I quit. I notice Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma have a lot of wheat and was wondering if any local jobs pay decently in that region, in your experience.

I appreciate this thread; agriculture is nice.

 

Hi, what website is that?