How about a dump truck sub-forum?

I've wondered why this thread wasn't made a forum here . http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/ask-an-owner-operator/80808-hopper-dump-o-os-and-drivers.html

 

I would like to see that myself. I am biased though being that I run a bucket.

 

I think "dump" truck is very generic. Several types of trailers dump their loads in different ways. End-dumps, of course raise, just like the 10-wheelers to dump, walking floors dump using a conveyor system, belly-dumps by opening the bottom much like hopper-bottoms. Then you have side-dumps, that tip sideways.

All have one thing in common, they all haul bulk material. Rock, sand, salt, dirt, grains, fly-ash, haydite, ect...

I think the bulk forum really fits them better.

 

I've thought about buying a dump truck before is there any money in it ?

 

I once saw a driver "side dump" with an end dump. He was very talented.

 

No ma'am. The genious decided it was ok to dump with the left tires up on limestone and the right tires on the dirt.

 

I agree... I use both a end dump trailer and a walking floor trailer depending on the material I am hauling.... They both are "dumping" loads just in different ways... I would agree that we are all hauling "bulk" material....

In the walking floor trailer I haul recycling and yard waste.. In the end dump I haul food waste... It's all in bulk form...

So if the forum is going to be changed... Then I would suggest something along the lines of "Self Unloading Dump Trailers".. Garbage forum is to specific and I don't think we have enough members who haul garbage type of material.