Pulled a hopper bottom for a couple of years in the mid 90s. IIRC, I'd load 26 tons of anything the "travel agent" lined up. Mostly grain from farms or smaller elevators to big elevators in Kansas City or Wichita. A lot of hauls out of KC were to the Springdale, AR area and consisted of feed ingredients like soy bean meal/hulls, corn gluten, blood meal, bone meal, and something called "cookie meal". It was ground and cooked cookies and cakes that came from bakers and distributers of things like twinkies. Smelled good, and was used to sweeten feed. Most of the products would not fill up the hoppers. One run I hated was from an Anhieser Bush rice processing plant in Jonesboro, AR to a Sedalia, MO dogfood plant. It was rice hulls, and was so light I could never get much on. Hauled rock salt from a mine in Hutchinson, KS to MODOT highway barns, sand from the Arkansas River near Tulsa to a KC plant that made landscape blocks, pelleted chicken poop from AR to western KS organic farms, fertilizer from the port of Catoosa to MFA COOPs all over MO. Once loaded popcorn from the combines in a field near Peculiar, MO delivered to a popcorn plant in Hamburg, IA. Grossed over 90,000. Oooops. Talk about a hard pull, the Pete was snortin. Wasn't overly fond of wheat or bean harvest time either. Hurry up and get loaded on the farm, make tracks to the elevator to get in line on Front street behind the other bazillion trucks waiting to get unloaded.
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