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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Dumpin grain
Stepson Thomas sent me this photo of his truck dumping wheat at a mill in Kansas. Pretty cool! Thomas, somewhat disappointedly, assured me that he was not in the truck at the time this photo was taken by him!
I used to see that fairly frequently when hauling wheat into some of the larger grain shippers and flour mills. The end of the scale flips up as a barrier, the truck has to back up the trailer duals to the barrier, and that is all that holds the truck in place. I always figured I wouldn't care for it because anything loose in the truck would fall back into the sleeper.
I was pulling a hopper bottom, which was designed to haul grain in the first place. Generally the freight rates on grain hauled by dry vans and reefers are pretty abysmal.
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I used to see that fairly frequently when hauling wheat into some of the larger grain shippers and flour mills. The end of the scale flips up as a barrier, the truck has to back up the trailer duals to the barrier, and that is all that holds the truck in place. I always figured I wouldn't care for it because anything loose in the truck would fall back into the sleeper.
I was pulling a hopper bottom, which was designed to haul grain in the first place. Generally the freight rates on grain hauled by dry vans and reefers are pretty abysmal.
Pretty cool.
Jeffro,
Come to think of it, Thomas did have to stop in Indiana a few days later for some repairs to the truck!
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