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restricted o licence drivers cpc tax insurance maintenance etcForgive my ignorance but what is the minimum requirement for running a arctic for farm use only?
If you cant make money running a bulker this year you never will. There are some stupid rates being banded around. Lots of grain to move, and plenty of stone/aggregates as well.
Might be easier to subbie for a bigger company and let them sort the work out for you, but Im not sure how much of the rate gets passed down to them.
Thinking on the lines of a six or eight wheeler tipper.
Am I mad?
8 wheeler muckaway and aggregates. Rates not that good but you can get your loads in and double shift for road planings on nights. It is a tipper but not sure if clean enough to cart your own grain or get the payload?
Spoken to a few local farmers about possible wagon work and they have all said to get a bulker. One bloke is worried about not getting all his sugar beet into the factory before it shuts as current haulier is only managing a load a day.
The driver cpc really has had a big impact on the industry.
Thinking on the lines of a six or eight wheeler tipper.
Am I mad?
No, but keep your costs down. New are stupid money, three year old are cheap. Buy a Volvo 8 wheeler with a nice light agg body. The Volvos last forever.
Come and work for me August- October.
Yes. Lots of empty miles.
I would just run a bog standard bulker at least you can usually find a back-load from almost anywhere to anywhere.
Lime man by me runs his own lorry has done for years.No, but keep your costs down. New are stupid money, three year old are cheap. Buy a Volvo 8 wheeler with a nice light agg body. The Volvos last forever.
Come and work for me August- October.
Lime man by me runs his own lorry has done for years.
Six wheeler with a wilco lite body gets 17 ton on it.
What about a lorry with interchangeable bodies?
Have two mixers at quarry with de mount bodies can be changed to tipper bodies.
But running 24/7 at crap rates is an easy way to wear tackle out fast and lose money
We've run an extra tipper to normal this season and have been absolutely stacked out with work, never known it so busy. 24/7/365 work for a decent TASSC registered tipper
Completely bonkers
3yr old cheap? Really? As a man passionate about classic kit Pete, I didnt think £50k for a 3yo tractor unit with the thick end of half a million km's would be cheap!! Volvo's last forever? We had a T reg FH12 that did 1,400,000kms with very little bother, and a V reg that cost a b fortune in 600,000kms. Same as owt else, good and bad once the miles mount up. (Scania very similar, fwiw) Whats he do Nov to July? Agg body useless for grain or beet...or moving machinery/straw...or pulling taty bulkers...etc
Correct. Most of the time anyway.
No wonder I never do any good in life!!
Thinking on the lines of a six or eight wheeler tipper.
Am I mad?
Here we come Pete!
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'Tis a beautiful sight Kev. A beautiful sight.
This.I would get on an agency's books and get paid by someone else to drive; running a wagon is as cut throat as the
Tractor / contractor scenario;
Yes you can, counts for 3 days trainingDid I hear somewhere that you could do the ADR as part of your CPC or vice versa?