Truck Drivers

denick

We haven't talked much about trucking. Most don't seem to move their equipment but how about dump trucks?

We own an 85 F350 1 ton, a 64 brockway good shape we only register it for specific jobs, very road worthy, mostly hauling big rocks. 250 Cummins 5 + 4 Transmission, 58,000 rears, heavy steel body twin piston scissors hoist. and a 72 Kenworth and a 72 Garwood dump trailer in excellent condition didn't register them this year, it's cheaper to hire. I might if we pick up the jobs we are bidding on.

Learned to drive on a B81 Mack, 711, 18 speed, 65,000 rears. Two stick shifting. Probably never went 500 feet without missing a gear and having to stop and start over that first month. Probably didn't help it was summer and we were working next to the beach.


Nick

TMatt142

Well, I can say that the trucking is night and day different from where I worked in MN to where I work now in Mo. Up in MN there are huge weight restrictions but no laws for tarping your loads. In MO. you must tarp your loads but I've seen tandem and tri-axles with sideboards 4 high hauling 38 ton! Tandems up in MN we could not load them over 10.5 -11 yards. Up north, because of all the sand, we used a lot of belly dumps and side dumps whenever possible. Down here with all the rock you see neither. I think I've seen 10 side dumps total working for the same company. The trucks themselves are about the same though, A lot of Sterlings, and new Granite Macks. I learned how to drive truck in an old R-model Mack watertruck!!! Ahh yes, the days of old....where you HAD to double clutch. My uncle usually buys automatics in his Sterlings simply because they go through sand better, and less expense on replacing clutches.

joasis

I have a background in heavy trucking, oilfield and over the road. In my comany, we use single axle dump trucks for roofing tear-offs and hauling debris when I tear down a house or clean up a construction site. I just got rid of a '55 Chevy 6400 and now my only truck is a '78 International 1600 Loadstar with a massive dump bed, and scissor lift actuation so we get double duty...nearly vertical dump and a working platform to 16 feet or so, pretty neat. The downside is the truck has a legal payload of 8 tons or so because of the weight of the hoist and extra beams for the scissor lift.

The insurance cost and the DOT would keep me from trying to operate any class 7 or 8 trucks and heavy trailers, I would hire it out before owning.

rino1494

This is ours. It is a Autocar (not sure on the year) with a 400 Cummins.

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dayexco

we have an 88 fruitshaker daycab, "sorry, i don't know the model #", with a 3406B that came with 350 hp...i just had the local vo-tech school juice up the ponies. we pull our 2 axle 25 ton beavertail/ramp lowboy with it. am looking to replace that with a 35 ton 3 axle detach gooseneck. everybody here moves their own equipment, unless it's an extremely big machine. we also have a 3 axle beall belly dump we pull with it, but are looking to trade that in for a 3 axle side dump. would be handier for us, could use it for demo and snow removal also then. we have 2 early 90's louisville 8000's tandem dumps, one 76 louisville tandem dump that will be converted into a water truck next winter. these all have allison automatics in them. as you can see by this post, there are a few "am looking to" in there. my dad started in 47, i started on my own in 80 when he retired, and have seen some economic ups and downs. i'm very cautious anymore on how much money i borrow. have seen brave competition gear up and buy all new, borrow to the hilt, only to see that piece of machinery gone in 6 months. i've always liked to have my operation in a position where i could "cash out" of it if i absolutely had to. we deal with 8-9 month seasons here. other than excavators, very hard to justify new equipment.

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jmic

I bought 2 new trucks in "86", Internationals. 10 wheeler DT 466 with 13 spd. Road Ranger, 16' body. Talk about missing shifts, this was the first truck of this type I ever drove, left the dealer went and got a load of stone, heading for the job and encountered DOT scales, talk about being nervous, wasn't overweight and went on my way. Like Nick took me about a month to master that bad boy. 6 mos. later bought S2600 series, 300 hp Cummins with Spicer 7 speed. Things were very busy at the time making all kinds of money, the trucks are nice when they're new but I kept them till 96" and when things start to go they suck and drain you like a vampire. Nothing like renting trucks when you need them and letting someone else have the headaches.

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Joe

CE1

Here is my "project truck" a 1970 International 18,000 GVW
392 V8 4 speed stick with 2 speed rear

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