What is it like running a hopper?

Yeah... The hopper guys im familiar with will literally pull off the pit and window thier load out the gate if someone hits thier trailers with a hammer or mallet. And they get really irratable if you lean skin against the polished sides of their setups.

 

IIRC had to stay within a very close proximity to the interstates at those weights, and had to have a permit.

 

wasn't mine, but i’ve seen many do that way.
I just been to them places a ton and knew by seeing them where they were.

My trailers have 6 vibrators mounted on them, not just line his two

 

Ouch! That bad, huh?

 

I had to live load at Blue Buffalo in Richmond IN the other day and there were hoppers in their lot when I got there and the same trucks were still waiting to get in when I left.

It’s not just hoppers. We had one place with the pneumatic that was 7psi max for unloading and we’d be blowing salt off for about 5 hours.

 

Oh yeah.
Rendering plants are right there also. If I never see another load of blood meal, chicken meal, bone meal, etc it would be to soon.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if some of our guys were in the lot waiting in Richmond.

 

Last harvest, Ihve had to wait as long as 9 hours at a Sanderson Farms feed mill to unload corn. And have been turned away at 10:00 pm after hours of wait, account of not unloading later than that. Have sat in a five mile long line in Greenville Ms waiting to unload. A lot of sitting and waiting during peak harvest.

 

I had three and a half days in KC because Integrated refused my chicken meal load. Then the powers to be somewhere couldn't decide where to take the load. It was at that point I requested to our guy to get me off a hopper and back on a bucket.

 

WHAT? Did somebody leave him on supervised? You must be mistaken. Say it's not so. Don't you hate people with long memories....