Tanker to ready mix

Well I’ve never driven one but I feed concrete plants with sand and rock and at one of them, they have a “Wall of Shame”. One guy had folded his back tags down when he was empty, and it lifted his drives up and he tried braking for a corner and went into a house. So I’d try to avoid that. Also I’ve heard some of them whip a new guy trouble because he poured a driveway that was downhill, and as soon as he was done he went like 50 feet up and washed out and all the water ran onto what the flatworkers were working along with all the road debris.

 

Haha! Right. Pretty much those are the bullet points. But yea dude when they were givin the new guy grief about the water when I was turnin in my ticket I totally thought the same thing. “I could see myself doing that.”

 

Remember the golden rule you can always add water to the load you can’t take it out. Depending on mix I never left the yard with anything more than a 4inch slump if it’s more than that batchmen gonna add dry material no questions asked. Best of luck

 

I work for a ready mix outfit in the summer. Park my rig and stay away from the nuts on the roads during summer, come fall hit the road and deal with the coming snow.
As for as hauling cement, just load and go, let the layer deal with the slump if it is to thick, once they tell you to add water it is their load.
Just save enough for a good clean up after, it is a ##### cleaning the inside of drum.

 

Yes that’s how it was at my plant it was a wet batch. Meaning it was already mixed and up to proper slump, sometimes though batchmen would slip or get lazy and load you with a 6 inch slump and tell you to go with it but if your doing curbs and stuff the mix is useless. Just always check and be sure because your going to be at fault if it gets rejected when you could have the issue fixed at the plant.

I’m happy for you concrete work is hard work but you get to see the final product when there done finishing it. And you get to point out to your family I poured this sidewalk or I poured this house foundation. It’s really cool I did it for 8 years but I could not do the 1am starts one night 6am the day back to 2:30am the next morning. That sucked big time but I’m happily over the road now where run how I want to run. But I always look out for concrete work because it is so cool watching the building and construction of things. Best of luck