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re: I drive a semi truck. Ask me anything.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:12 pm to BottomlandBrew
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:12 pm to BottomlandBrew
quote:couldn't tell you delivery times are always in a comfortable window with hours to spare. It's when I show up to get a live load(maybe 10% of my loads are live loads) and they start loading then the shift changes. That shite will back u up 4 hrs. That causes some real red arse right there.
Why do y'all always show up at my dock at 5:01 pm and get pissed no one is there to unload?
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Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:14 pm to GruntbyAssociation
quote:yep
sem eye”
It's a tractor actually.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:15 pm to wadewilson
quote:yeah that's badddd....
Those motherfrickers in "new" Laredo couldn't load to save their lives. Supersacks of fly ash, how hard is it to not overload directly over axles?
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:22 pm to BET
3PL's are bad business, and it's not all their fault. I tried to fix that loading issue, but nobody cared.
The only reason that company had a good business model was because they were true intermodal and their business was built on river freight. The trucking group was just a side show.
Nah, my next job was way more fun. Logistics in construction aggregates. Dealing with dump truck drivers is like herding cats. I'm just glad I didn't have to do the field investigation where the guy backed up to dump while on the phone. When he hit the overhead wire they yelled at him. I guess when he grabbed the door handle the arc fried him and his truck.
The only reason that company had a good business model was because they were true intermodal and their business was built on river freight. The trucking group was just a side show.
Nah, my next job was way more fun. Logistics in construction aggregates. Dealing with dump truck drivers is like herding cats. I'm just glad I didn't have to do the field investigation where the guy backed up to dump while on the phone. When he hit the overhead wire they yelled at him. I guess when he grabbed the door handle the arc fried him and his truck.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:23 pm to BET
I had a brief interest in driving otr but I have sleep apnea and the recruiter said I was a no go.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:36 pm to wadewilson
quote:Hollllyyy crap.
guess when he grabbed the door handle the arc fried him and his truck.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:40 pm to GruntbyAssociation
quote:do you control it with a cpap machine? Most companies "will" give you employment and allow you to pass their physical with a 3 month documentation that you actually use the machine. Apnea as you know will make you very tired all day. Trucking companies want you to be awake, focused and alert when your driving. I know a few guys who use the machine just fine and drive with no problems.
had a brief interest in driving otr but I have sleep apnea and the recruiter said I was a no go.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:45 pm to texag7
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Why is a Pete 379 the best truck ever made?
It’s the steer axle position with how it is pushed further forward.
Rides like a dream.
That goes for the 389 too.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:46 pm to BET
PERFECT. QUESTION: I'm in charge of a project that will use biomass (piney pulpwood, bagasse) that will be transporting from source locations to our site. The source locations range from 25 miles to 75 miles from our site in West Baton Rouge Parish. The Biomass will be picked up at source locations and trucked to our site in WBR ranging 25-75 miles away. How much does it cost per mile for those ranges? Additionally how many tons of biomass can we fit on a truck? Can we get permits to raise that weight limit? Thanks. I'm in charge of figuring out these figures. Anything will help.
This post was edited on 7/22/24 at 9:53 pm
Posted on 7/22/24 at 9:47 pm to BET
WHy can't you people STAY in the right lane...people can wait another couple of days for their new toaster !
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:00 pm to Saunson69
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PERFECT. QUESTION: I'm in charge of a project that will use biomass (piney pulpwood, bagasse) that will be transporting from source locations to our site. The source locations range from 25 miles to 75 miles from our site in West Baton Rouge Parish. The Biomass will be picked up at source locations and trucked to our site in WBR ranging 25-75 miles away. How much does it cost per mile for those ranges? Additionally how many tons of biomass can we fit on a truck? Can we get permits to raise that weight limit? Thanks. I'm in charge of figuring out these figures. Anything will help.
Been out of the business for a long time, but there are some key factors:
1. What are the operational hours at pickup and destination?
2. How long does loading and unloading take?
3. How many daily loads need to be run?
Anybody in logistics is going to ask you those questions so that they can begin to calculate a mileage rate, and other things are important, like if trucks are going to have to climb a bridge loaded down. That's bad on fuel.
ETA: also, mode of transportation. Is this product in supersacks that can be loaded on a dry van or flatbed, or is it bulk and you need dump trucks?
This post was edited on 7/22/24 at 10:01 pm
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:13 pm to Saunson69
quote:this is not in my vocabulary.
PERFECT. QUESTION: I'm in charge of a project that will use biomass (piney pulpwood, bagasse) that will be transporting from source locations to our site. The source locations range from 25 miles to 75 miles from our site in West Baton Rouge Parish. The Biomass will be picked up at source locations and trucked to our site in WBR ranging 25-75 miles away. How much does it cost per mile for those ranges? Additionally how many tons of biomass can we fit on a truck? Can we get permits to raise that weight limit? Thanks. I'm in charge of figuring out these figures. Anything will help.
The drivers will most likely need a hazmat cdl. As far as how much, I just know that 80k lbs is usually the limit on weight unless some specific short term situations will be allowed to carry a higher weight limit. I know that certain farmers who have permits where their harvests are allowed by truckers to carry up to 100k lbs. This is a question tbh for a possible owner operator that may know something about short term loads running at short distances.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:13 pm to BET
In most of the western European nations, truck/vehicle accidents are minimized due to traffic laws strictly limiting trucks to the right lanes,disallowing trucks passing other trucks,trucks have a lower speed limit and are limited to M-F travel...all of this is by law/rule with very stiff penalties ! How can such practices {proven to lessen accidents/fatalities}, be instituted nation wide ? Is the teamster lobby just too much to overcome the obvious safety benefits of the European 'system' ?
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:15 pm to BET
quote:
I drive a semi truck. Ask me anything.
How’s your arm wrestling skills?
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:18 pm to tickfawtiger
I mean follow those laws? Its a matter of making the law(s) and enforcing them. Simply limiting ALL tractors to one speed limit would help alot with way less lane changes. Make all hwys 3 lanes and have a trucking lane only? As fsr as day only. Millions of lbs of weight gets moved during the night as much as daytime. So hmm don't know that one. We do have an accident problem in America on our roads and hwys
This post was edited on 7/22/24 at 10:20 pm
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:19 pm to wadewilson
I'll try my best to answer, but I have never done this before. I should talk to engineering before answering but I'll try.
1. This will be a 24/7 running plant. Think similar to a refinery or ammonia plant on MS River
2. Loading and Unloading. I doubt these will be flatbeds. We are using an enormous amount of biomass. 2,200+ tons per day. We'd need to use whatever we can transport the most amount of pulpwood or bagasse. Not sure if it'd be an open top semi. We will have probably 80 maybe higher trips per day. We will probably end up starting/hiring a logistics company. I couldn't really tell you how long it will take to load besides that the pulpwood will likely be in log form some slash, the source will load it. I don't know how long that'd take. Bagasse, I'm not sure either. We're in early stage. This stuff will get worked out soon though. You probably have a better estimate at how long it'd take to load pulpwood in log/slash form, bagasse, and sawmill shavings.
3. It'd be probably 80 to 90. We'd have a team doing it. I'd doubt it'd be dump trucks as I don't think you can carry as much weight. The key for us is maximizing weight per trip. The product will be log/slash form of pine pulpwood, compacted bagasse, and sawmill shavings probably in bails.
4. The process of dumping once at our site would be like how trucks go to dumpyards, get picked up by a bailer, and turned over to unload everything into a pile.
1. This will be a 24/7 running plant. Think similar to a refinery or ammonia plant on MS River
2. Loading and Unloading. I doubt these will be flatbeds. We are using an enormous amount of biomass. 2,200+ tons per day. We'd need to use whatever we can transport the most amount of pulpwood or bagasse. Not sure if it'd be an open top semi. We will have probably 80 maybe higher trips per day. We will probably end up starting/hiring a logistics company. I couldn't really tell you how long it will take to load besides that the pulpwood will likely be in log form some slash, the source will load it. I don't know how long that'd take. Bagasse, I'm not sure either. We're in early stage. This stuff will get worked out soon though. You probably have a better estimate at how long it'd take to load pulpwood in log/slash form, bagasse, and sawmill shavings.
3. It'd be probably 80 to 90. We'd have a team doing it. I'd doubt it'd be dump trucks as I don't think you can carry as much weight. The key for us is maximizing weight per trip. The product will be log/slash form of pine pulpwood, compacted bagasse, and sawmill shavings probably in bails.
4. The process of dumping once at our site would be like how trucks go to dumpyards, get picked up by a bailer, and turned over to unload everything into a pile.
This post was edited on 7/22/24 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:22 pm to tickfawtiger
quote:
strictly limiting trucks to the right lanes,disallowing trucks passing other trucks,trucks have a lower speed limit and are limited to M-F travel.
You do all those things and the right lane will be a parking lot for 20 miles outside every single city during peak commuting hours.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:24 pm to Saunson69
Is this like moving wastes from a saw mill or sugar mill?
If it has hazardous wastes which I think it does it will have to be a closed trailer labeled with placards.
If it has hazardous wastes which I think it does it will have to be a closed trailer labeled with placards.
This post was edited on 7/22/24 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:26 pm to wadewilson
quote:
You do all those things and the right lane will be a parking lot for 20 miles outside every single city during peak commuting hours.
bullshite. It works in other countries.
And, it’s better than trucks causing a 40 vehicle stack up in the left lane moving 63 mph.
Posted on 7/22/24 at 10:28 pm to BET
As of right now for Bagasse, we are picking up from Sugar Cane farmers. It is extremely cheap as otherwise they just burn it. We may have 1 sugar mill we might pick up from, but it's likely straight from source.
Sawmill shavings yes from sawmills. There's not nearly as much of this as bagasse or pulpwood though.
Pulpwood would come from a large timerland owner in the area east of the Atchafalya Basin but West of the MS River. Stretching North-South from Hwy 190 to as far South as Donaldsonville.
Sawmill shavings yes from sawmills. There's not nearly as much of this as bagasse or pulpwood though.
Pulpwood would come from a large timerland owner in the area east of the Atchafalya Basin but West of the MS River. Stretching North-South from Hwy 190 to as far South as Donaldsonville.
This post was edited on 7/22/24 at 10:33 pm
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