Muck Boots 'n' Slickers - Life of a Livestock Hauler

I certainly wasn’t one of the participants in this thread, but I just finished reading almost 900 pages of it. Took me almost three months. I enjoyed every single one. You fellas on here are the truest representation of what trucking should be, what it once was, and what it should be in the future.

So you know my background, I’m 29, been driving 11 years legally. It’s been in my family for generations. We run east coast, old Petes and b,c, and e model cats.

Thanks to you all for the laughs and wisdom you bestowed on these pages.

 

You're a glutten for punishment, but welcome! Sounds like you fit right in, and have a high tolearance for Bull ####!

 

Well it’s Sunday morning shop clean up time. I always pour hot water with dawn and simple green out on floor every Sunday with everything out that will go out. With a one bay shop that’s easy. Run it around with a broom good every where then squeegee it dry. I’m gonna have to really stay on top of this shop cause it has lots a ventilation. With the fields and wind it’s not really ideal for for hire work. Needs some work but it’s gonna have to do. I gotta buy a big single phase air compressor, I got my gas rig outside but it’s not the handiest thing ever. Gotta get both my chain hoist down here which is a feet in itself. They are 14 tall an 14 wide 10 ton hoist on each. Wear you ### out pulling on them but makes it easy in the long run.



I ain’t real sure how this is really gonna work, my Cow wagon under the hay shed, my hopper under one side shed of shop and my pile of heap Pete under the other. Still haven’t hung a name on it yet. That may be a moot point, it’s too early to say. No work in sight for next week yet either so it’s working out bout like I wanted lmfao. I’m sure that will change. Odd seeing the driveway cleared and a first rate m’fer backing the trailers around the driveway back here.

You gotta come up county road from south back down driveway then hit that split off your blind side. Follow it through the trees come out by the bins and put it toward the shop. When I done the hopper I had my moo mobile sitting right at the split just for the challenge I guess.

 

And I always said: "Self, Why is everything so difficult for me?" Glad to know, (sad for you) that others have situations too.

 

I've been trying to run out of stuff to do for almost nine years now. Every once in a while I get a call from some yahoo wanting me to hire them to market our shop to new customers.

 

I don’t want to get big enough to move to town again. Nor do I want employees and that responsibility. I thought about making a separate shop drive, a parking area etc. I used to work on one in shop or two but that was tight. And have a couple jobs under each side shed. That was exhausting all cause I didn’t want to say no or loose business. Our cards said Cooters Diesel Service “If we can’t fix it it ain’t broke” now I think it’s a more we fix em one at a time” I honestly rather work on yellow iron of any brand instead of trucks. I liked the range of different problems, solutions to each. i hate being cooped up in the shop, same place every day. But I learned a valuable lesson field work if not paid even with a signed invoice of due when completed is a court matter. Judgement nor mechanics lien guarantees payment. Just cause they pay good for 10 years doesn’t mean they won’t get you. If you got possession you can keep it at least. And the fact remains I’ve sat in a truck the last 13 years straight. I’m so far behind on the technology I’ll never catch up. Nobody running 225, 235 and 245 CATs. Or -5 Komstsu. John Deere and Case dozers used to be very simple machines. I tried to burn the world up when I was younger. I done well but think I’d have been in the same spot I’m at had I stayed small. Kept the overhead low. Work is kinda over rated. Besides my sole purpose in this part of life is merely to be arm candy for the judge. It’s a hard life knowing that your just a pretty boy but I’ll manage

 

As long as you, the Judge and Doc are happy, nothing else matters.

 

@wore out ,have you seen where the OKC stockyards are for sale? They can be yours for a cool $27 million.