Who hauls hot mix asphalt with a quad or bigger?

$65 an hour for a quad is too cheap. It is over $80 around here. Also, The asphalt plants have a "list"
If your on the bottom side of the "list" you more than likely wont have steady work.

Unless no one wants to haul for them @ $65 an hour

 

Don't know what a "quad"is...but Reno is getting $85/hr for semi belly/end dump....& $105/hr for a "train'...ie; 1-38-40' belly with a 28' rear pup.

@ 129K w/9-axles...119K @ 7-axles.

FYI: New "Open-Grade" hot-mix w/ rubber & cellulose is NASTY ####. It will stick to a vertical surface......& a lot of DOT work is that item. Good for customer.....beatch for driver.

Good luck

 

im guessing by quad he means a 4 axle straight dump truck. agreed its low. the lowest i ever get is 90 an hour with a belly and been all the way up to 160 an hour on a good tonnage job. average is sitting around 110 an hour at the moment.

 

I'd call around to other patch plants and places that use quads and see what the going rate is

 

If your working In a quarry.. STAY THERE!!! Asphalt is seasonal depending on where you live as they aren't supposed to lay asphalt less than 70 degrees.. 65 an hour will pay for fuel but not much more. You should get at least 80 plus an hour.. Plus if you don't really know what's happening with knowing what to do, you will dump one load and get signed off and you go home. Is it hard? No.. But don't shut that paving crew down.. Like I said if your working in a quarry STAY THERE... You'll take home more money at the end of the year and have some benefits..

 

Not only that....but most all aggregate comes right out....will maybe be playing with a shovel scraping out cold mix after it cools. ( NOthin' a little diesel won't fix..! )

 

And then there's the time the whole load sets up inside a trailer.. OHHH boy!! You don't know what fun is!!

 

BIGPERM:
We don't see them here.. Out east a couple of chemical companies ran them into the mines. But some states allow them for more weight. It's a trailer with 4 axles..places like Iowa allow 20,000 per axle so they can get 80,000 on the trailer axles.