Post by 70ds on Feb 22, 2009 17:44:35 GMT -5
Minkler Farms has had a trucking division for several years now. (This is a fictional company that goes along with my farm display.) It shows up regularly in Minkler Farms journal. The company has really been taking off here in the last year, so I thought I would share what they do. Here is the fleet.
We will start off with the flat beds and lowboy. We do heavy hauling with the lowboy, anything from moving equipment for the local dealers to anything you can get on there. We have hauled some new IH combines home from Grand Island NE. We have also went to Waterloo and brought new Deeres home to area dealers. The Transtar is pretty much a yard and local truck. It is restored but it doesn't go very far away. The two Pete's and the flat beds haul anything from hay to shingles to new farm equipment. Right now they have been staying busy with hauling shingles from TAMKO here in town to Denver CO. Then they bring a load of cardboard bundles back to the plant. This trip is usually done in a day which the drivers like because they can be home at night. The orange truck is usually home every night when possible since it doesn't have a sleeper. They are pretty much always on the flat beds, unless they are needed at harvest time to haul grain.
The next four are the long haul hoppers. They haul anything you can get in a hopper almost anywhere. They will be out for several days at a time most of the year. They do come home and haul grain for the farm during harvest. The rest of the year they are all over the country.
The next 2 are the bullracks. They are full time cattle haulers. They run all over the midwest and the plains. These are the only trucks that don't ever haul grain. They pretty much stay busy all year round on cattle. (The black Pete was my first DCP truck so it can be blamed for my addiction to DCP trucks ;D) I would like to add more pots in the future but time will tell.
The next trucks are my local haul trucks. The are home almost every night unless the occasional time they may get caught out on the road. The hoppers haul into the ethanol plant and to local feedlots. They also have a run where they take wheat to Fremont NE then pick up a load of rock in Weeping Water NE to bring back to TAMKO. That is an all day run that brings them back home at night. The Volvo is going to be switching over to fuel hauling in a week or 2. The Minkler Farms journal tells the story behind that. The Mack and the end dump are hauling wet cake full time out of the ethanol plant to our feedlot and other area feedlots and dairy's. If that would ever slow down there is always something that you can haul in a dump trailer to stay busy.
The next trucks are the farm trucks. They are the all around trucks that do a little bit of everything. They haul grain for the farm, or fertilizer for the Ag division. They also haul hay and cattle. They are usually busy doing something you just never know from day to day what that might be.
That is an overview of Minkler Trucking. Questions and comments welcome.
We will start off with the flat beds and lowboy. We do heavy hauling with the lowboy, anything from moving equipment for the local dealers to anything you can get on there. We have hauled some new IH combines home from Grand Island NE. We have also went to Waterloo and brought new Deeres home to area dealers. The Transtar is pretty much a yard and local truck. It is restored but it doesn't go very far away. The two Pete's and the flat beds haul anything from hay to shingles to new farm equipment. Right now they have been staying busy with hauling shingles from TAMKO here in town to Denver CO. Then they bring a load of cardboard bundles back to the plant. This trip is usually done in a day which the drivers like because they can be home at night. The orange truck is usually home every night when possible since it doesn't have a sleeper. They are pretty much always on the flat beds, unless they are needed at harvest time to haul grain.
The next four are the long haul hoppers. They haul anything you can get in a hopper almost anywhere. They will be out for several days at a time most of the year. They do come home and haul grain for the farm during harvest. The rest of the year they are all over the country.
The next 2 are the bullracks. They are full time cattle haulers. They run all over the midwest and the plains. These are the only trucks that don't ever haul grain. They pretty much stay busy all year round on cattle. (The black Pete was my first DCP truck so it can be blamed for my addiction to DCP trucks ;D) I would like to add more pots in the future but time will tell.
The next trucks are my local haul trucks. The are home almost every night unless the occasional time they may get caught out on the road. The hoppers haul into the ethanol plant and to local feedlots. They also have a run where they take wheat to Fremont NE then pick up a load of rock in Weeping Water NE to bring back to TAMKO. That is an all day run that brings them back home at night. The Volvo is going to be switching over to fuel hauling in a week or 2. The Minkler Farms journal tells the story behind that. The Mack and the end dump are hauling wet cake full time out of the ethanol plant to our feedlot and other area feedlots and dairy's. If that would ever slow down there is always something that you can haul in a dump trailer to stay busy.
The next trucks are the farm trucks. They are the all around trucks that do a little bit of everything. They haul grain for the farm, or fertilizer for the Ag division. They also haul hay and cattle. They are usually busy doing something you just never know from day to day what that might be.
That is an overview of Minkler Trucking. Questions and comments welcome.
