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one of the best things about my job is the farmers

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by ad356, Dec 15, 2019.

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  1. Dec 15, 2019 #1
    ad356

    ad356 Road Train Member

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    i really enjoy visiting my farms and picking up their milk. these people will give you the coat off their backs. great people. a couple of weeks ago i was taking the road to my farm, its a very steep hill. it was ice that morning, the roads were like glass, it came on fairly suddenly and the highway depts had dropped the ball. i made it over the steepest part of the hill, but it continues on an upgrade all the way to the farm. i was spinning the tires all the way up the hill creeping (with power divider AND both axles locked). i realized the truck tandems were slowly walking towards the shoulder and ditch. i carry anthracite coal ash (a bi-product of heating my home), i dumped that on the road surface and tires. i got moving again although very slowly and still spinning the tires. my farmer came up the road with bags of salt, he salted the road by hand all the way to the farm...... exceptional guy, i consider him a friend his name is rob harkins.

    yesterday i delivered at load to the plant and 4am. i got to my farm, i opened the cabinet to setup my pump and valves...... oh crap, i realized i left the adapter for the wash (from the plant) in my cabinet. i saw the farmer and informed him i was going to have to unhook my trailer and bob tail back to the plant to return what i had accidentally taken with me. he immediately offered his pickup, i offered to put gas in it..... he says dont worry about it. nice old man, he is known as duke ( i do not know if that's his birth name LOL).

    seems like farmers are always wiling to help in the time of need, they are great people. they work too hard with limited reward. i have far more respect for them then any celebrity, actor, politician, or CEO.

    my job is not perfect but i think i have some of the best customers a CDL driver can ask for...... dairy farmers.
     
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  3. Dec 15, 2019 #2
    Tall Mike

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    yep..

    I haul a lot of feed and seed...I’ll go to a farm any day over a distribution center filled with steering wheel holders and clueless foreigners.
     
    Tall Mike, Dec 15, 2019
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  4. Dec 15, 2019 #3
    Chinatown

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    Anything else you want to tell us?
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  5. Dec 15, 2019 #4
    Accidental Trucker

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    About two months ago we had some steering wheel holder deliver us a load of feed. We don't have a dock, so we run a pallet jack in the trailer and one in the storage trailer. Add the guy on the skid steer and it goes a lot quicker with three guys.

    Anyway, the guy pulls in right before lunch, so the two of us drop what we're doing and work through lunch ............while he sits in the cab doing whatever.

    Ever since, he's waiting for us to come back from lunch whenever he delivers. We take our time, we know he's not in a hurry.......
     
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  7. Dec 15, 2019 #5
    Flat Earth Trucker

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    Farmers deserve more respect than any celebrity, CEO, or politician because they DO more than any celebrity, CEO, or politician.

    Without famers, there would be a whole lot less eating going on.
     
    Flat Earth Trucker, Dec 15, 2019
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  8. Dec 15, 2019 #6
    snowwy

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    Not all farmers are that way.

    Some DO have a tude.

    We don't haul their milk away. But we do deliver product for their feed.
     
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  9. Dec 15, 2019 #7
    D.Tibbitt

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    Between us truckers n farmers . there wouldnt be nothing going on anymore if we all decided to stop working.
     
    D.Tibbitt, Dec 15, 2019
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  10. Dec 16, 2019 #8
    uncleal13

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    I went in the ditch to miss a lunatic driver. Fully loaded Super B train hopper bottoms, 95,000 lbs load of Canola.
    Tow truck wasn’t quite strong enough to get me out of the mud and up on the road. Farmer came along, went home, came back with an auger and a grain cart to empty out my rear trailer.
    Tow truck got me out, went over to farmers yard to load back the rear trailer. I offered him $200 for his help. He declined, said to bring him two cases of beer and call it even.
    I came back the next afternoon and paid him his beer.
     
    uncleal13, Dec 16, 2019
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  11. Dec 16, 2019 #9
    SteveScott

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    People who are raised in the country just have a different take on life. I grew up on a farm then moved to California (suburbs) when I was 17. I noticed immediately that people just weren't as nice out here and still aren't to this day. I drove for a small trucking company for a couple years delivering feed to dairy farms in the western US. While I hated the company, I loved working with the farmers. Salt of the earth kind of people that will give you the shirt off their back. Wish it was like that everywhere.
     
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  12. Dec 16, 2019 #10
    Lyle H

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    How about doctors, lawyers, auto workers, garbage men, plumbers, toilet paper makers, etc...etc...?
    My point is a lot of truckers think they are a lot more important than they really are.
    We are all important to a certain extent.
     
    Lyle H, Dec 16, 2019
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