If you have that bad of a knees how can you safely work the clutch and brake ??? I am in pretty good shape for the shape that I am in but occasionaly I have to get out my knee brace when they route me on a road with 17 stop lights per mile for 15 miles

 

:shock:

Kinky.

 

You're right Rev, thought this was the Family Channel ops:

 

Good one Rev :wink:

Maybe there's a side to Mack we haven't heard yet :shock:

How long was he out to sea ? Can`t remember.... :lol:

 

I haul grain 9-10 months out of the year. It depends on your area. Here we have rice and it's binned on the farm and at dryers and then must go to the mill so it's hauled alot. Soybeans coming out of the field will bridge on you as will any wet grain but I hauled rice all winter and never entered a hopper. Some of the facilities (like ADM in Memphis) won't let you get in hoppers anymore for liability reasons. I'd say you'll see more of that. It depends on your area but with the advent of ethanol plants with no storage that require regular deliveries and chicken plants with no storage there's pretty regular hauling in alot of areas. Around here there's yearround hauling for 1 of the commercials but the economics have been challenging from the guys in line at the mill.

 

Tanker and bad knees may be a bad combo if you can't climb a ladder.
I'm up and down that thing quite a bit. and you don't want your knee to go funny while walking on the catwalk.
Matter of fact, there's a lot of things that a bad knee will get in the way of, right down to entering and exiting the truck.

 

try a contract mail carrier. MCA is a big one, they are mostly drop and hooks, some unloading depending on the depot, but all that involves is rolling carts off. the downside will be the pay and probably having to work nights.

good luck.

 

Mail carrier would be a good gig. No situation will be perfect for you, but I agree that dump trucking would be the easiest on you. Most don't pay that great but at least around here the jobs are fairly easy to get. Lots of local stop and go so lots of clutching and the clutch is also used to engage the PTO to raise the bed.

 

I would kindly have to disagree, at least as far as running a sitework truck goes. You might do fill dirt one day, and then asphalt the next, which is going to require you to clean out that bed... sometimes, it can be as simple as raising the bed and washing it out with a hose, but often, it gets a bit more involved than that, and you'll have to toss a shovel over the side, and climb into that bed.
The absolute worst was when we were contracted by this company which was cleaning out a small pond. They drained it, then had the trackhoe scoop up the silt, and load it into trucks, to be dumped at some farm a good distance away. You wanna talk about breaking your back to get your bed cleaned out. We did three days of that, and then had an asphalt job on the fourth day, and that crap stuck to the bed like glue.

 

Point well taken, Jeff.