What is it like running a hopper?

here’s soybean meal from adm mexico mo to peco corning ar some dude getting to hammer whip a trailer.

 

Lots of Farms have big fancy trucks.

 

Prime and JB both had/have hoppers. They come in, cut the rates, then they can't service the account. I've been told by people at our accounts their drivers have absolutely no clue what they are doing. At least they are consistent, no matter what trailer they pull, they do it cheap, and are clueless.

 

There are 2 fleet companies that I know of up this way that do it, Foltz and F-M Transport. Foltz owns them.
Buccheit out of Scott City, MO runs a hopper fleet.

 

I have hauled potatoes, fertilizer, coal, wood pellets, salt(downhole and road), animal feed and supplements as well as grains from the field to storage and storage to market.

 

Neatest trip I ever did with a hopper was apples out of WA going to Ludington MI and I took the boat across from Wisconsin.

 

I know of some small to medium fleets that pull hoppers... N. Lott Trucking, Doug Andrus, amd a few others. I love pulling hopper trains, easy work home every few days or more often even.

Heres a 9 axle setup I ran for awhile... Could legally gross 145k

 

putting brackets for an air powered vibrator and using it solves most of that trailer abuse

 

I thought Idaho maxed out at 129k?