Driving For A Feed Mill

I worked for a feed store out of Albuquerque. They have an auger in the bottom and a vertical auger and a swing auger pivots and raises also. You get the end over the bin and its driven by a hydraulic pump, same as the ones on dump trucks. You go back to the mill and it has hatches for top load. There are also hopper bottoms and dump trailers. Long term, they don't pay very high but it is steady work and after a year or so you can move to one like GPI out of Mount Joy.

 

I live in the same state as Shinedown does. But Im in central pa. I know about 4 mills (2 feed and 2 grain mills). Sented them the application one of them. Waiting for a response.

 

Hi Shine, I don't think it's the best paying , but it is steady work. Delivering to farms can be challenging, on the farm I worked on, I felt bad for where my boss had the driver dump (or conveyor) the load. Also, get used to heavy loads. Some of the heaviest loads ( aside from those iron ore pellets) I hauled, came from feed mills. It's mostly local work, you don't see too many OTR grain haulers. Also, delivering grain to a BIG grain user can be busy. At a mill I picked up at Minn. they had huge lines of trucks waiting to dump. I've known drivers that worked for feed mills, and you run pretty hard during harvest, probably winding down a little now.

 

I live in mifflinburg area which is 1.5 north of you. Started out hauling feed in bulk trailers. Most big mills like white oak ebenshade etc i think run you 12 hr days u start n stop round same time every day it is challenging amd fun. We do alota amish farms tight places to get semi into sometimes. U can either auger feed or blow feed. Alota poultry places is load trailer 1 stop unload go back n load another. I think white oak sometimes has 3 or 4 stops on one trailer. Least thats how we run our trailers 8 pockets 3 ton each pocket depending on feed. So u deliver 6 ton one farm go to another delivery there feed etc then go back for another. I really enjoyed it n still do it time to time when boss needs extra guys to haul. Summer time is a little slow. Winter gets busy since cows arent pastured. It will def give you back experience. I know lancaster area has some decent farms so you might now have to many tight places. Just watch for power lines while swinging auger. Also alot of farms dnt plow there drive ways or if they do its just so milk man can get in n the rest is untouched. Ill probably go back to haulingfeed trailer once i get couple more bills paid. Kinda like milk hauling once its in ur system its hard to get outa it

 

i run a bulk feed truck in ontario, pay isnt great, but all the hours i want....

we only have a few auger trucks between the four mills, most are bag/blower trucks using and air-lock transfer to blow feed into bins.....