My first dump truck! advice please?

I had them on both of my dump rigs......

Used them for hauling boulders, steel crossing plates, and pipe......

 

Yeah, they don't like us hauling real weight in NC. There's a bunch of low tonnage roads in NC... 6-1/2 ton per axle weight limit... with a quint axle, you can actually haul more on those roads than you can on the Interstate!
I ran for that guy for a little while.. we primarily contracted out to Rea Contracting, hauling stock and asphalt, and, on occasion, if Rea had nothing for us to do, we might haul for C.C. Mangum (brokered through Puryear, and C.C. Mangum is now know as Fred Smith Company), or he'd find occasional odd jobs on his own for us to do.. such as a private pond being drained, and we'd haul off the silt... that wasn't fun.
I ended up getting a job with Lane Construction - the parent company of Rea Contracting, and I'd run everything ranging from dump and water straight trucks up to the heavy haul lowboys. When I came back from working in South Africa, I got into C&D hauling, and since they only worked on weekdays (I worked one Saturday with them), I'd work part time for the guy I drove the dumps for, or else he'd pimp me out, and get me weekend work with other dump truck outfits, such as this one out of Smithfield..



When it came to maneuvering, that big thing couldn't even come close to what the Mack was capable of.

Oh, yeah.. stuff that'll actually put a beating on your gate. I should've clarified and said I meant for the purposes of asphalt and stock material haulers.