WALKING FLOOR = AMAZING. Why don't more food companies utilize this?

Weight and cost are two drawbacks that megas would never put up with.......

I pulled one for several years hauling processed bark mulch to landscaping retail yards .....

It’s amazing how many young women work with plants..... it was a enjoyable gig.

Only bad side is their was no money in it. I even tried back hauling palletized freight so I was loaded both ways......

 

Where I’m from they beat the rate down so bad it’s not worth owning, everybody’s hauling commodities for hopper rates now even with a walking floor!

 

Don’t give me wrong there’s guys still making money but they are trading commodities and subsidizing using their own trucks to haul!

 

Yup , unless your buying and selling what your hauling there’s no money in it.....

And trash forget it........

 

I like to see wrapped pallets of food products costing thousands of dollars splatter on the pavement below. Im not going to stand under them and play catch, repeat until pulpy. No siree.

 

For food service? What's the point? For less wait and faster times you use a pallet jack. I'll stick with my ramp and 2 wheeler though, thank you.

 

How do they even get people to load DDGs and meal in hoppers? I won't touch them unless it's pellets, not worth the headache trying to unload them, brokers don't like it when you tell them something isn't a hopper bottom commodity.

 

Yes very well!

 

I know of one for certain that didn't. It might have just been a hot-rod lift driver putting too much side load on the floor with the pallets. He also caught the floor in several places with his forks,
It was mashed and munched in enough places that the insurance company totalled it. It was an old trailer but it still hurt to lose it. We bought it back, junked the floor, and parted the rest of the trailer out.
I was out of town the day it happened so all I have is hearsay evidence of how it happened. The shipper blamed the customer and the customer blamed the shipper. Pallets of roofing shingles, very heavy. The pallets went clear to the doors so the driver never noticed anything when he picked the trailer up.
We have two others and we don't haul palletized loads anymore, just wood chips, hog-wood, bark, and shavings.