How about a dump truck sub-forum?

How about "Vocational" trucks. I consider any truck like dumps, garbage, logging, mixers, etc. to be vocational trucks.

 

Short answer is: Currently "NO". Once upon a time "YES". It will turn around though. It will just take a few more years.

 

IN BIG CAPITAL LETTERS NO !! Not at this time but maybe later I Had 2 trucks and down sized back to 1 unit

 

Are you including or referring to End-dump? If so you can get a little creative with the loads. While for the most part, the bulk material (rock, sand, ice, wheat, corn, ect..), I have heard of them being used to haul loads like Rubber tire inner-tubes. The company I drive for has hauled, glass for recycling.

So while they're thought to be mainly used for dirt, rock and sand. they can be used to haul much more. I posted in another forum/thread about one of our O/Os, hauling Live Rattlesnakes.

 

im planning on buying a dump truck, once the economy recovers i will be a in a position to make decent money and be home every night/weekends.

a lot of friends/family still in the business but they tell me to wait for a recovery no money right now, nothing beats the ease of driving a dump truck, and not being away from home for weeks.

 

I've heard of guys hauling steel in end dumps also.

 

Yep. They have some really heavy duty steel end dumps to haul it.

 

What about roll off trucks?

 

I haul live floor up in the northeast, and we haul anything you can think of from trash, recyclables, dirt, wood chips, I've even hauled 55 gallon drums to an incinerator.