Milk Tanker Driver going to farms in first Vlog | Trucking Life | Truck driving 2301

[@AnthonyGreener-l6u]

Nice car for a mill truck driver now we know who gets the money ! Not the farmer who provides the milk ! Nothing against you ok !!! But the milk prices have not changed but everything else has !!!!!!!

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

I got the car used and luckily well cared for. It Was under 20k. The price of cars nowadays is insane. I can only afford used cars. But I do completely understand the lack of good milk pricing. Farmers work way too hard for milk to be paid what they do.

[@ehcatsfaneric2211]

Use to haul milk from Ovid Michigan and Adrian down to Charleston S.C. back in the 90's

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

Awesome! That's a serious trip. Thanks for laying the ground work for milk haulers today.

[@waynelutteroty5332]

That’s tuff job 7 days a week an holidays.u can’t stop milking cows my man . God bless

[@BACONBITZ96]

Greeting from Pennsylvania!!! Dude i haul milk up here in central PA. I go to Lansdale, Reading, Carlisle, and Hershey. Occasionally we go to Laurel, MD. Glad i found a fellow milk hauler on KZbin! Be safe out there bud!

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

Laurel is horrible for fitting trucks in those bays. I have been there a handful of times. Just a wierd process all the way around with walking samples over and doing your own paperwork.

[@BACONBITZ96]

Yeah definitely not my fave. We used to go to Schreibers and Rutters and Turkey Hill but we got kicked out because of the co-ops changing. We haul DFA and LOL.

[@reezee412]

What company..I just got my tanker endorsement ?

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

@@reezee412 barrick and Stewart is who I work for . There are lots of other companies that haul milk well . If you live in a different area then search milk hauling in the place you live and see what pops up. Personally I like hauling milk. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching !

[@bryanrivera231]

I have an interview today at 5 with center port milk hauling, sounds like the areas they go to! 😂

[@waynelutteroty5332]

I did the milk farms in the 70s was good backing up exp. Those farms in pa don’t have a lot of room

[@willyreimer8042]

came to listen to you about milk hauling, not about your car. I considering going in to milk haul hence my intrest

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

As I said in the description it was my first video of my daily work grind and beginning could have been trimmed. My editing skills weren’t great and I thought car part was long however I appreciate your kind words confirming this. Havr a Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.

[@mikehamilton9450]

Good video thank you

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

Glad you enjoyed it. I am working on editing videos of my new route with fresh farms

[@deebly_goncerned]

Nice vid man, love the POV of your day. I've been looking to get into some sort of tanker work lately. What do the different colored sample bottles mean?

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

@atulrich93 that’s a great question ! They correspond with what cooperatives the farm is under. Brown - land o lakes , clear - dfa dairy farmer of America, gold is Cumberland valley and Maryland /Virginia . Each farm runs under a chosen coop dairy system. So we use the corresponding bottle color for there coop. Thanks for watching !

[@BG-fh5me]

Hey man so if your a type of guy that tries to be efficient and not cruise and stop for breaks how many hours a day would you get?

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

I am that guy. I never stop for breaks. I get paid flat rate per route. Avg 25-35 an hour. Flat rate is good for guys that move.

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

Avg route is 7-9 hrs $200-250, 1.5 routes 10-11 hrs is 300-375 or so ,double is 12 avg hours $400-500. These are all ballpark Averages at my company. Pay will vary by who you work for and what kind of run you do. There’s transport runs that take milk for a to b not farms and they are faster and you do more then 1-2 a day. More driving with those.

[@BG-fh5me]

@@MilkHaulingwithTj okay thank you man👍

[@paul.-jj6yh]

Just discovered ur channel... r u an owner op.... can u do an approximate earnings per month vid

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

Hey thanks for coming by the channel. No owner operator as the areas are owned by milk hauling companies. At least around here. Pa is a huge independent dairy farm area as the farm owners go but the hauling part is big areas owned by companies. Earnings is all on schedule. I work a lighter schedule due to having kids. I work 4 days a week and make roughly 1100 gross. Now that’s just a single route. You can run 1.5 routes or double trip which can make you 300-550 daily depending on if it’s a weekend and what you do. For example we have a guy that works 6 days a week, roughly 8-9 hrs a day but can be longer for sure and makes $1900-2000 on 1.5 routes per day. That’s a set of pickups and deliver to dairy factory and then pickups again. Or deliver then pickups then deliver. It’s really all about what you want to work with my company. Im sure it varies company to company . Thanks again for watching . Maybe I will do a earnings vid. I will keep that in mind.

[@paul.-jj6yh]

Ty 4 d reply... it was enlightening

[@willyreimer8042]

why do you wear latex gloves for driving?

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

I do from stop to stop . Gets old taking them off and 2 min later throwing them back on . Having hands in soap and water all day drys them out.

[@michaelguller2026]

Why wear gloves? I drove milk tanker in upstate New York for 18 yrs and never wore them.

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

I’m happy that you chose to not wear gloves but I choose to wear them to protect my hands from the weather and the harsh soaps and solvents. I go to several farms daily and do a thorough job rinsing and cleaning. I then go to the dairy where I again have to clean the hoses and parts from farm pickup and to ready my trailer for the next day.

[@Canecorso14]

They pay 21 .50 here in Central California u think under paid for all the work done says does 12-16 hours a day

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

They definitely can be some long days hauling milk. Some driver do back to back routes everyday that can take 16 hrs so I agree with that . I think 21.50 is low for any class a driving hourly rate imo. Good drivers are hard to find. Our company does a salary avg $205 plus weekend differential $50 per run and wait time at $20/hr over 2 hrs at dairy.

[@Canecorso14]

@@MilkHaulingwithTj just got word back from them training pay is 21.50 a hour then after u get your sampler license 23.50 is top pay with overtime after 40 and schedule 5 on 2 off 5 on 3 off asked why pay is so low said a lot of down time at dairy’s up to 5-6 hours sometimes

[@MilkHaulingwithTj]

@@Canecorso14 me personally : I get paid 205$ for a 7 hr route. Any wait time above that is 20$ an hr. Also there’s a 50$ weekend bonus per route run . A lot of guys run a route and a half or doubles. For example: I cover a Sunday route and a half which is 300$ plus 50 bonus plus 25 bonus for the half. So it’s about 375 with no wait time for 10-12 hrs of work. It works out nicely . Hourly is always nice too. Depends on how you work honestly . I’m a get it done no stop and eat guy. Take your time and cruise guys probably be better by the hour. My job I work 4 short days sometimes 5 my choice and gross over a grand . The guys that run 6 days of a route and a half make around 2 grand. All local of course.

[@Canecorso14]

@@MilkHaulingwithTjthanks for info ya probably look for something else don’t seem to good and to make good money need to work 16 hours a day and that’s to much will get burnt out doing that every day