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Walking Eagle
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Took just over 5 weeks. It was built in Tx. but was finished to late to get on the barge lift which could only get into Pruhoe Bay once a year so they had to truck it. Paid the truck $88,000 plus all expences including fuel, pilot cars (3) motels etc. That was 1980s $s When it got to Fairbanks they hooked a heavy hauler up to it and put a push truck behind it and took it up the haul road. |
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shahan
Joined: 24 Apr 2005
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Location: baltimore, md
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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| You got a years pay in one load? |
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Walking Eagle
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Heavy hauling pays big $s, that's why I do it :D Thing is is that if that is all you pull you are gona sit a lot. This load was actualy farly cheap for the size and hassle, came out to about $8.50 a mile when you take deadhead from Fl. to Tx. then loaded Tx. to Ak. then deadhead Ak. to Fl. plus even broken down and loaded on it's self this trailer is a permit load. Plus I sat a week in Fairbanks till the trailer came back from the North Slope. |
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Jackrabbit379
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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Location: Wichita Falls,Tx
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| How cool? Our reefers are set at -15 in the freezer,and 38 in the cooler. |
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Rev.Vassago
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
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Location: The other side of the coin
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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shahan wrote: You got a years pay in one load?
That's hardly a year's worth of pay, but it's certainly one heck of a nice paying load.
Do that 5 times a year, and take the other 4 months off. :wink: |
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Walking Eagle
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Yep Vassago if I was only making that a year doing HH I would sell the truck and trailers :) :)
Lot of the noobs and van haulers don't know what it costs to build a HH tractor, don't just go on a lot and buy one. Buy a new tractor, take it home and tear it all apart and put it back together how it is supposed to be :D |
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yoopr
Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| nothing cool or unusual but a Very Expensive truckload of Untaxed-unstamped Cigarettes from Virginia to Minnesota. |
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bulldog2036
Joined: 13 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| ...$300,000 worth of Zoloft..... |
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PackRatTDI
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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Location: Las Cruces, NM
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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Walking Eagle wrote: Took just over 5 weeks. It was built in Tx. but was finished to late to get on the barge lift which could only get into Pruhoe Bay once a year so they had to truck it. Paid the truck $88,000 plus all expences including fuel, pilot cars (3) motels etc. That was 1980s $s When it got to Fairbanks they hooked a heavy hauler up to it and put a push truck behind it and took it up the haul road.
$88,000 for an oil company is chump change, even in 1980s dollars :lol: |
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shahan
Joined: 24 Apr 2005
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Location: baltimore, md
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="Rev.Vassago"][quote="shahan"]You got a years pay in one load?[/quote]
That's hardly a year's worth of pay, but it's certainly one heck of a nice paying load.
Do that 5 times a year, and take the other 4 months off. :wink:[/quote]
Thats 2 years pay for me |
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Adam9315
Joined: 03 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow. That's a massive load. How much does it pay to carry mobile homes on an average trip? Like a double wide; and are they a pain? |
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Rev.Vassago
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
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Location: The other side of the coin
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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shahan wrote: Rev.Vassago wrote: shahan wrote: You got a years pay in one load?
That's hardly a year's worth of pay, but it's certainly one heck of a nice paying load.
Do that 5 times a year, and take the other 4 months off. :wink:
Thats 2 years pay for me
Yes, but you obviously don't own the truck and trailer, and therefore, don't have the expenses involved with owning it.
The coolest load I ever hauled was a trailer full of dinosaur fossils - they came from Mongolia, and were touring the country. The place I picked them up at said they were worth about 15 million. |
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lifespalette
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: $88,000 for an oil company is chump change, even in 1980s dollars Laughing
Chump change is correct.......back in the late 70's early 80's when the bottom dropped out of just about everything, Mobil paid my dad about $10,000 per month to lease a 5 acre lot to story a drilling platform and mud pump for about 18 months.......... it was a sight cheaper than moving it since it wasn't needed anywhere else. At the end of 18 months, he had to call them about it.......they had forgotten all about it...... |
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Colin
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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Location: Kennewick, WA
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I hauled a load of practice bombs from a tiny little factory TN (IIRC) to The Blue Grass Army Depot in KY. There were no exlposives in any of them. |
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Nailbender
Joined: 03 Aug 2005
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Location: South Dakota
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This is not cool but probably the stupidest load I've pulled.
I picked up a load of mulch and tree bark in West Virginia along with a pallet of cow manure and hauled it to Iowa.
As if there isnt enough manure in Iowa already. |
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