Milk loader/driver shortage in NM and Texas?

For what's it's worth, I am trying to motivate you;

In goes the tractor trailer, tanker and all to get sanitized and heat treated when empty at the dairy when empty. For the work, occasional teams of shire draft horses on chain to get unstuck etc nowa nd thin The payroll was at that time incredible. They actually beaten the competition by 300+ cash net eadh we

Those darn Yankees put me out when they taught me a new route which featured a ,Turning that trailer tandem in place where there were a 400 fall on this side and 600 on and it's not for me.

 

You and I are sharing some alike similarities than I would care to admit. I understand your challenges/f

 

Have you gave any thought to hauling liquid cow feed?..There is a plant in Clovis

 

No where near as bad as loading milk...don't know how y'all do it.

 

I think that every day. The only reason I'm here is because I want experience hauling a supertanker, which we get next month, and then I go to working 4 days a week , but make more per day.

The biggest thing I see driverwise here is there are alot of guys with felonies and less than perfect driving records, that get hired on because the companies that haul milk are so desperate for drivers. So they stay and sit 20+hours a week for free because they can't drive anywhere else.

 

I reckon...don't have a lot of patience anymore to be sitting around like that.

 

I agree, I don't either. This is going to be short term until have comfortable funds saved to move.

The real kicker is that in the only break room the drivers can use is a poster for the local Teamsters union, complete with a card from the steward. I've tried to help 2 companies become organized and I got screwed both times. Someone else can grab the reigns here

 

Remind me to never leave the state of PA or my current job of farms to dairy hauler. It sounds like hell compared to what i do daily. I actually enjoy my job, its nice to talk with all my farms. Some of them are whackos, but its still interesting to say the least.

 

From what the milkhaulers out here around Clovis/Portales,NM tell me, the dairymen don't give a rip about the guys picking up milk...I haul feed in to them but I never deal with them..just unload and leave. Real peaceful.