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hopperbottom-grainhauling

Discussion in 'Trucking Jobs' started by longshot, Mar 3, 2009.

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  1. Mar 3, 2009 #1
    longshot

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    anybody getting miles and making money, it is part of the food-chain. thinking of trying it, any info would be greatly appreciated:biggrin_2551:
     
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    Peanut Butter

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    If you can get into the commodities meaning haul feed for cattle or grain you can keep busy, cattle got to eat. depends on who you go to work for on miles and money, check around.
     
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    PharmPhail

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    I found a gig that a few O/O's have vouched for, I hear good things. It's OTR though. What are you looking to do?
     
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    I don't know about your locale, hoppers haul almost anything that doesn't drip and does flow, from sand and salt, to whole cottonseed, with a little help from blowing air to unload for the latter. Around here they haul grain and dried byproduct, and return with dry fertilizer at certain times of the year, sometimes, the only grain moving was to get a backhaul of fertilizer in the spring.

    How much grain is hauled there, and whatever else that fits into the trailer?

    There are some long haul opportunities,but getting home without return freight can be a problem.
     
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    RickG

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    I ran hopper bottom out of KY . I stayed busy and was home every weekend . The rates are low . I'd work close to the full 70 hours and only average $750 gross . Wait times loading and unloading can be very long . No trouble getting loads both ways . Poultry meal and cotton hulls out of GA , AL , and TN going North . Wheat midds and distillers grain going back South . For a while we were pulling 2 or 3 loads of peanut hulls a day out of the peanut plant in Blakely , GA . We hauled a lot of midds to catfish farms . I hear a lot of them are cutting back due to foreign competition .
     
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