What kinda Hauling is this ?

You might like it. For a guy like you that obviously likes the outdoors it might be perfect.
Home every day, seldom any weekend work, very little actual physical labor, no tarping, usually a good bunch of people to work with and you'll get to see country that nobody else ever does. Decent wages and the bigger outfits have good benefits.
You'll get a couple of months off in the dead of winter when the weather is really lousy too. By the time winter hits hard you're usually ready for a break anyway.
If you get on with an outfit like SPI that pays hourly you can rake in the OT, bank it, and coast through the slack time in style.

 

Don't forget changing tires on the side of the road.

 

They have to change there tires?ado they get paid extra or better yet does hauling logs pay good?

 

It pays by the load and crappliy at that.

 

Often they have to. You might be hours from town. I've changed our helped change many. With a breaker bar and ratchet. There's a reason they carry a spare. I don't know what they pay now. I was always paid percentage and did well.

 

Typically the truck is paid by the tonne/hour around here. The mill sets the rate and the cycle time. Pay is pretty decent. My old man raised a family of 4 comfortably on the income from his truck. No idea what a driver makes as it was all O/O's where I grew up.

I've never seen a guy change a tire before. If its a drive or trailer tire they'll just call the tire shop and meet the tire guys where the bush road meets the pavement and change it there.

 

Especially when you tear an air line on a switchback or you leave a little too much slack in the airlines at the compensator and they get shredded within 5 minutes of hitting the pavement.

 

back in the day these guys did it with no radio and not much of anything!

 

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Oh yeah. A lot of the guys carry air guns now but I remember using the Budd wrench and winch bar. And having to stand on the winch bar or hooking two winch bars together to break the lug nuts loose because the gorilla in the tire shop hammered down with the air gun.
I don't miss that at all.