Roll off - a general question

Rolloffs are fun if you have a tarping system. Be a little more careful on curves if you are heavy. They are top heavy. I never heard of percentage either in a rolloff. Let us know how that goes.

 

Sorry about your luck. Have you tried BFI, Waste Management, metal/material recycling places, etc?
If you're hard pressed to find work, try ye olde Craigslist. I know it sounds a bit..., but it's how I found my current job. What class of CDL do you have?

 

Dump truck driving isn't a bad gig, but the downside is that it tends to be seasonal, especially if you're supporting road construction. If you're doing asphalt, a light spraying of diesel fuel on the bed and spreader will do wonders to keep it from sticking to the bed, but some mixes are just unstoppable... UHMA Special Type B... soap wouldn't keep it from sticking, diesel fuel wouldn't keep it from sticking... I really hate that stuff. Make sure you scrape off the area where your tailgate makes contact with the bed periodically if you're hauling asphalt, and don't get into the practice of pulling forward and slamming on your brakes to bang the tailgate against the body in order to knock out loose material - especially if yours has an aluminum bed, but it's not good for a steel bed, either.

 

I've done roll-off myself; can be tricky at times, I've had to parallel park dumpsters in Boston streets (I mean, drop the dumpster and use the truck to maneuver to dumpester between 2 cars). Dropping dumps down a personal drive way wide enough to back a honda civic in was easy in comparison.

 

Roll off is a family of trailers that unload product by well...allowing product to roll off by gravity...



Pictured above deals with a container roll off...

But the kind I did...dealt with construction...tress factories...
Where they would load trailer with tresses...



And you would drive to building sites, and unstrap, and then carefully raise trailer...and tresses would 'roll off'...but you have to do it right, cause once they start rolling off...there's nothing you can do to stop it...

It's kind of a science...sometimes you show up, builders not there, so you have to 'guess' where they would want product dumped...

It can be dangerious to...often tress frame loads are wide...and block visibility from one side of truck...so that when you pass someone, you can't see in your mirror if you have cleared them before you get back over...

Below is a better example of tress or prefab housing frame roll off trailer..

 

Banging your tailgate will not hurt the bed at all. I drove a dump for 4 years and this was a normal practice by everyone and no one ever damaged their gate, be it an aluminum bed or steel bed.

 

Agree 100% on this. Many times the product you haul (demolition material, #6 or #8 rock, etc) will do far more damage then a gate slam ever could.