to all end dump haulers...

Im still alive, just been busy all year and running hard all over the country. Getting ever closer to my new engine and transmission, Actully planning to do the transmission pretty soon. So ive been ignoreing the forum a lot. Something something sleep lol.

As towards loads getting stuck with how muggy its been, i had an entire load of wet sand a couple days ago get stuck on me. Crap get stuck stuck so i had to bounce, dig shake, bounce and dig at it for almost 4 hours before it FINALLY broke free. I was pretty spent lol. Scared the #### out of me when it hit that stop and started to sway with not one #### thing moving. Put it down nice and slow to keep it from jerking and maybe snapping the piston lol. Weird thing is ive delivered the same load dozens of times and never had a problem before.

 

Still kicking, headed to the Hoosier for an early am delivery. Hopefully cow feed back south.

 

Good to see you around @Al. Roper are you back driving full time again? Pretty crap week here, hurricane kept us idle on Wednesday and has pretty much put the rest of the week on hold, a few loads here and there. To top things off, I somehow cracked a tooth in the last week or so and wouldn’t you know it cracked right to the root, needless to say pretty painful so I had to have that stupid thing pulled Tuesday afternoon, the joys of getting old, and I’m only 40!

 

Yeah, I've been driving. Just hanging closer to the house. I venture out from time to time though. I got hit in the jaw with a cheater bar years ago and broke a tooth. That was aggravating to say the least.
The hurricane impacted some of our south Ga and north FL stuff this week as well. Hope yall didn't get hit too bad.

 

Today has been a weird day. Got to the shipper, got told i was a week early. The customer had not paid for material and me bones and the customer were confused AF. And they dont have enough material for even half a load. Broker wanted us to haul it anyway.

Turns out the broker was rushing the job and screwed everyone up. Then the poor guys at this itty bitty place dont have a big loader so had to build a ramp. Plus since there is so little material left this is how they are loading me.




Props for getting the job done, but ive been here going on 5 hours heh....its a really weird day

 

Ive done that once before out of Bon Secour, AL. There’s a company there that deals with fresh seafood and had a mountain of oyster shells to be hauled, of course I’m the first guy sent there to load, spent the better part of half the day building a ramp, here’s the weird part, as I recall the loader was so tiny it couldn’t get far enough in the trailer to center up the load so not only did we have to build the ramp, but we loaded front to back one side of the trailer and then had to turn around and load the other side to even things out. All in a days work for an end dumper sometimes.

 

Yep, that brings back memories, that’s exactly how it played out for me. Sheesh, be safe.

 

Yea i already fixed it. Spent a good 2 hours shoveling. Pretty much wiped me out though. Fecking hot as hell where in at. Took this at a red light when i got done. I dont know how them construction boys do it without dropping dead.

 

@Professor No-Name @motocross25 where y’all been? Slow slow slow down here in the sunshine state, working everyday but concerning to say the least.