@AccordTorneo there really isn't any training for hopper. There should be something but there's not. Pulling a tank isn't going to get you the feel of things with a hopper. If you want to come to hopper, just come to hopper. Most of our freight is in indiana, ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania though

@brianmoses7381 ohhhh sweet im from toledo so that's right up my alley man thank you so much

@@AccordTorneo Toledo is perfect for what I'm doing right now.

Hopper is going good for me so far. Did you make it to hopper yet?

@@brianmoses7381 Got my new truck yesterday, was supposed to take off today but ended up sitting at the Freightliner dealership all day today with an issue. Truck is good now. Rolling out tomorrow.

How are you doing with a hopper?

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It would get lost

Why?

Cuz elevator and grain company pay you fucking cheap and you no make any money in corn or beans l work with corn local in NE and that job is really slow you only run 3-4 days and u get not even 2k for that loads you do so is sucks

Y'all on strike?

For some dumb reason, they all came from the factory that way. Getting them reprogrammed

@brianmoses7381 after we put hurricane straps on we had to reprogram ours

I've hauled oil out of CHS and ADM in Mankato

I've been going to chs mankato every day.

I've been pulling Hopper for 3 weeks and we've only done soybeans and corn so far. You are absolutely correct that hauling just grain is pretty tough to make a good paycheck. We got some bean meal loads starting next week and I'm picking up a load of magnesium oxide next week too. Will see how that goes

@@brianmoses7381 gonna need them vibrators and take a broom! Little trick, Google: Martin hopper suction vibrators. Your trailers knock rails will thank me, so will the trucks dumping behind you. That stuff unloads better in winter, but still a biaaaachhh.... wait till hot humid summer to push 12 tons thru a 24 inch wide hole!

Very nice trailers indeed

So much anger. Who hurt you? So, tell me oh wise hopper dude. What do you do if you're parked at a shipper or receiver overnight and it snows? How do you get your tarp to open?

@brianmoses7381 chances r, if your parked at a "terminal" overnight it's to dump 1st thing at 5:45-6 am, most terminals are open from 6-4 or 7-5 (except seasonal hours) most "terminals" don't start loading until later in the day. Not all. So you just crack your tarm so you don't suck it in or leave it closed and unload slowly. Then problem solved, it blows off when your goijg down the road. Once you learn a bit about the bulk industry I'll watch you educate me how it works 😉. Lol. If you happen to be parked waiting in line at a terminal in line to load and you get a snow packed tarp, your an idiot. Always park where you have an exit, of chance of snow so you can run the snow off the tarp. Remember your tarp cost probably 5-7 grand. Wait till you unroll it in the wind parked the wrong direction. You just as well cut it off and drive straight to surco tarp shop to get a new one. Can't wait to hear what you'll teach me next. Have you heard of hopper tech? All the good loads in hopper game don't unload and stick in your hopper, your little vibrators won't help when summer comes. But keep educating us on hoppers prime. Appreciate it!!!

Guys that pull hopper trailer like to think they're God's gift to trucking. Like there's no other tru king more skilled than a hopper driver. Probably one of the easiest jobs in driving you can do. Hardly any backing no tight docks. One of the easiest ways to get into trucking.

@@victoryrider I don't think I'm God's gift to anyone or anything. And yes, it doesn't get any easier than Hopper bottom

@@brianmoses7381 wait till you unload some aggregate or DDG or soybean mean and then get back to me about how hopper is the easiest, it is true, that we cant back up! lol no gods gift here, Hopper grain is literally so simple that it really doesn't even need explained. Hauling aggregate is a differnt story, you need a broom or an air system and its alot of work cleaning out your own trailer

Yep. Mostly county roads and 2 lane state routes. You're not going much faster than that anyway

@@brianmoses7381 yep and most trucks cant pull the 80K+ gross load (we run 95K with overloads in the west) up a hill faster than 55-60 mph any way. you want to get rid of that governor when your running empty, it'll be the difference between getting one more loaded today or having to wait till tomorow morning, then your next day is starting from behind

We don't have anything in Columbus area yet

Thank you driver

Thank you...O-H

@@brianmoses7381 I O

Luckily nobody has said anything yet but you're right, there's always a possibility

@brianmoses7381 your probably noticing that you get loaded heavier on the drives than the trailer. Most grain hauler want it that way forless stress on the center and rear of the trailer lot of stress on a hopper turning if you got aluminum frames

@@butch379 yep. Heavy on the drives on every load

​@brianmoses7381 is prime's empty weights really 29000? With all the money your company has why in the name of safety didn't they put front and rear access steps in the hoppers for you drivers. I'm sure your figuring it out by now if you get pulled over you will almost never scale it out right. Just wait until they have you loading out of the field farmers will load you front to back falling off both sides. I hope it works out for you I pull a hopper but maybe only haul 15 loads of bean and corn a year. If you start hauling byproducts and need tips on how to get it out I won't be like most people and tell you to fly a rocket ship. Biggest tip never hit that tub with a rubber hammer and the more you run the vibrator the faster you will crack the tub.

@butch379 knows the bulk industry! i was gonna mention the same, you dont see alot of these vids on YT for a reason... no company wants cameras recording that they dont control, filming their facilities and giving away intellectual property rights to competitors, + they HATE the liability! i know a couple guys that lost contracts over it. I never film at facilities other than the few i know don,t care, but even then its not worth getting yourself in a bind, they will tell you to turn the camera off if you walk into the scale house office with a go pro, never have but the guys that lost their contracts told me. Bulk loads are a different world

Cause they drive for prime and they're fuckin dummies

i see it all the time, some guys just dont care if its not their grain, but honestly a little drizzle for 5-10 mins waiting in line wont hurt anything, if it starts really raining the terminal will get on the radio and tell you to close your tarps until your under a roof, not all probe stations have a roof over them so you kinda gotta get the top a little wet, doesn't hurt anything but it will make whatever your hauling stick to the inside hopper trailer.

What fucking beeper? The seat belt beeper every time I push in my brakes?

Right

Hauling cheap feed ingredients drivers are clueless

Tests the moisture content

@@brianmoses7381 thanks !

@@masterofnone11 you're welcome

It's basically a vacuum. Sucks up a little sample that goes into the scale house. They check moisture, test weight, damaged kernel, bugs.

There are no scales on that run

@brianmoses7381 oh thought you ran regional

@wilE6764 so far, just Indiana

At the probe station

@@brianmoses7381 ok thank you I'm picking up a load in IA and delivering there Saturday morning

@OhioValleyWatchman where's the load picking up at in IA?

@@brianmoses7381 Sheldon Iowa. I have to go to Lennox and get the trailer and then run over to Iowa and grab that load.

@@OhioValleyWatchman that should be a nice little run to Indiana. Then what are you doing after that, staying in Indiana?

that sucks when you get to a new place and pull in one of the 4 stops the wrong way, we have all done it! we are all rookies when pulling into grain terminal for the first time! they have signs, it seems that you generally need to make a round then your a pro!

@@growthefarmup2606 that's exactly right and just because someone else does it doesn't mean it's the way lol do it 5 days a week lol

A of it is the name on side of his truck but no need to be like that to the drivers there just trying to do a job

@@greggostrowski3632 yea these prime hoppers are not gonna be the most welcome trucks at the terminals! lol Im far enough west we dont see any mega carriers names on any hoppers its all O/O with stretched Petes and pusher axles and tag axles with overloads. I'm interested to see if Prime will try to haul aggregate with these base model hoppers???

@@growthefarmup2606 probably will here in Indiana we do all the time extra axles don't help here we are allowed 80000 no matter What you can get a permit but I think it's a 1 time permit and you have to get a new one every load

Cowards love to talk crap like this idiot who left the initial comment.

29k

There are a few places you can have an ultra loft. You can deliver to Morristown with an ultra loft, but you can't load at Cardinal Ethanol with an ultra loft

@@brianmoses7381 yeah when I saw you pulling in to get loaded I thought that. Well I better make sure Kyle is aware of that. Thanks Brian

I would suggest nothing taller than a Unibilt sleeper if your pulling a hopper or bulk aggregate trailer, you will be limited with a 13 foot 6 inch tall truck. you may have to back into some places to load, any facility built in the last 10-20 years is set up to take any size truck, it should be a big deal either way, but i would hit a lot of loading conveyers if i had taller stacks, my stacks are about 8 inches taller taller than my unibilt sleeper and ive knocked one off many times!!! depends where your loading from, you generally want truck to be about as tall as trailer and you can go anywhere, not worry about having to back into get loaded, there are tons of loads going to old places not even built for semis, they were built for straight trucks and grain wagons in 1950! be aware

We're hauling it for the same rate everyone else is. We've talked to other drivers hauling from the same places we are.

I pulled tanker with prime for almost 15 years. I never hauled cheap shit

Man, where did you go to school? Reading your post gave me a headache.

@@johnratliff6694he’s exactly right on it all. I’m betting those deivees will think it’s easy until they will have to shovel a load of blood meal, ddg, meat & bone etc. then go washout to load next load & so on on some loads. It takes a different type of person to pull & understand how to run a hopper vs a reefer, open deck, double/triple deck cow trailer

@@johnratliff6694 school of hard knocks back in the early 70s

He clearly went to hopper school and knows more than you. Maybe you should just shut up and listen The OP is exactly right.... you need more vibrators and pnumatic air washout systems to run hopper. Good luck Prime!!!

Thanks driver. I pulled tanker for many many years. I'm use to the smell. Good luck in your next adventure

You got it right you forgot to say about farmers yards with junk all over the place you have to get around with out taking out a bumper or running over something with the trailer tires

Bitch bitch bitch cry cry cry cry. Imagine that. A prime driver that can't handle pulling a hopper

What about if you're parked at a shipper or receiver and it snows overnight and you're only going a couple hundred feet at 10 miles an hour? That's what the snow rake is for

​@@brianmoses7381 So you open the tarp. It's that easy. Never, I mean never have I seen someone use a snow rake on a Tarp. Why doesn't anybody use a snow rak you ask? For one, it's pointless, 2 you can damage the tarp, and 3 it's pointless and you can damage the tarp. I live in Minnesota and I pull a hopper and when it does snow theres a breeze so maybe a dusting to 2 inches in a spot will collect on the tarp but it wont affect the tarp at all. It might be in a bigger roll when it's open but it won't hurt anything.. About the only thing he didn't show you is where to keep the broom/shovel to sweep out the trailer and how to open a tarp when it's windy. Hint, hurricane straps.

Yes I meant trailer. Didn't mean to say drives

There has to be a hundred clowns at Prime with a KZbin channel It was only a matter of time till one of them was going to tell us how it is done

@@danbuchner1494 and there's always a fucktard that thinks everyone else is wrong

Talk to Kyle Walk or Brett Vonwiller

We are paid by weight

I was making a left turn 200 feet after this

So the left turn that I was about to make was what, no apparent reason to be in the left lane?

The yellow line on your right side should be a dead give away

Hmmm, well, it usually takes a little common sense to know how to enter a divided highway, and since common sense is no longer common. It still shouldn't be difficult. But since the average american is as bright as a burned out light bulb. I suppose some might have difficulty figuring it out. So maybe open your eyes a little more and be sure you're not the idiot going the wrong way.

These vehicles have these reflective things on the side called mirrors. There always has to be that one person.