Which of these would you choose? Belly dump, end dump, pneumatic, frac sand, roll off

The company I work for has us doing all these things except the hot oil. Like has been said, the belly dump is the easiest. The only danger with it is getting stuck on your load as you are dumping, but that is rare. End dumps can turn over, but if you make sure it is going up level, it is also rare. Pneumatics take longer to unload, but (for us anyway) frac sand pays way better than anything else we haul. If it were me, that's what I would want to be doing.

 

You can sell your labor for a little or a lot.. a man is worth the problems he solves. I have over 20 years in the industry..after just a few I decided I was going to train for the higher paying jobs driving. Based on that I would suggest Pneumatic or Hot Oil. Pneumatic drivers that I have known have done well.. Hot Oil is tanker experience and after a year or 2 would be easy to parlay into a job hauling Gasoline. Gas, Automobiles, Heavy Haul .. the higher per mile loads you carry the higher your pay.

 

Kyle is right on. Pneumatic opens you up to many different products from food-grade to plastics, etc. Frac sand haulers are doing very well right now. Lot of paid stand-by.

I'm going back to gas hauling. They are always happy to see you pull in.

 

There's nothing to an end dump. I would prefer belly for the speed factor but my product won't work in one. Use every bit of common sense you have on an end dump and when you run out ask someone with experience. Maybe I'm lucky and maybe I'm good. I don't know I just hope I don't experience one falling over. Watch your wind directions. sometimes your load isn't centered due to poor loading skills but if you pay attention and think first they can stay up pretty easy.

 

I'd have to say that getting on with just about any good oilfield company will pay better than OTR, as long as they stay fairly busy. I've heard good and bad about Joe Brown, but have no personal experience with them. I do know they run E-logs, as I've been on location with some of them before, and they were having to crawl into and out of location to keep the thing from kicking on and ruining their break. But they seem to be pretty happy with their company, and looks like they keep good equipment.

Nothing wrong with hauling rock, but sand will pay better. Slight learning curve on the pneumatic trailer, but once you do it a couple of times, you'll be fine.

I work for a small company with about a dozen trucks. We do a little of everything, but frac sand is our priority.

If you have any questions, just ask.

 

pulling an end dump pays very well and you are loaded quickly,few exceptions as with anything,and you dump your load and are gone as opposed to most other options.it is what it is. you can load many different commodities in an end dump,examples being -seed,scrap metal,grain,dirt,pallets(on fork lift qualified dumps w/3 way gates),etc. Pneumatic and hot oil are limited to well,pneumatic and hot oil.

mine is as biased as the post i quoted so take it as an opinion,which is exactly as it is meant to be construed.yeah,frameless end dumps take a good bit of acclimating and can be scary but that is part of the rush.nothing like having the trailer sway in the wind or a load stick or ?

 

The load hanging or sticking in a frameless is no doubt a game-changer, if not a pain. My biggest complaint about some of the west-coast frameless ones, is the ###### cylinder raises the bed so high, the air cylinders & lock arms on the gate, can actually hit the ground. Not....a good thing when hauling broken concrete, asphalt, etc. Again, you get a lesson in pulling the tractor back, then pulling the trailer forward, so as not screw up the low hanging stuff. Takes some getting used to.

I learned on a 42' 1/4 frame Fruehauf, doing demo work...dumping at Waste Management land fills in New Mexico.
Talk about dumping on a big 'sponge'. Ones sphincter gets exercised I should say.