Posted by fixerupper on March 17, 2021 at 09:01:26 from (100.42.82.64):
In Reply to: farmimg or trucking? posted by 55 50 Ron on March 17, 2021 at 06:29:06:
The area I live in is 100 percent fence row to fence row corn and soybeans and quite a few farmers have a semi to haul grain. A few farmers try to haul commercially with their hopper but about all they end up doing is wearing out their truck. It costs too much to license and insure for commercial hauling and the rates are too low to make any profit. A commercial truck has to be on the road ten hours a day every day. Most farmers can't do that without hiring a driver and if they hire a driver there goes what little profit there is out the window. Farmers used to be able to haul for the local elevator in the off season shuttling grain but the local elevators around here have turned into big business and want cut rate contracts only the full time trucker who is not interested in making money can fulfill. Hauling feed ingredients to the feed mills used to work pretty well for off season farmers but that ended when larger trucking companies started bidding for feed ingredient hauling to keep drivers busy. If a farmer wants to put a wet kit on his truck and add a pusher axle he can lease a feed trailer from a large feed mill and make good money hauling feed to hog or turkey sites. But that takes a GOOD trained driver and dedication to 11 or 12 hours a day driving five days a week or more. I used to drive for a local farmer who used his two trucks to haul ingredients to a local feed mill. I would go 90 miles to Sioux City at 6:00 in the evening, make the round and be home at midnight. Then I would be back up at six in the morning to take care of my farming and shop work. It was a job for a younger man for sure and the owner of the truck didn't make any money in the end.
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