End/Belly dump co's in TX

Sunset Transportation (Logistics) runs operations in many areas of the state including DFW
K & J (main terminal/offices between Bells and Whitewright) are pretty strong end-dump haulers in the DFW area.
There are also some old Lattimore trucks that say "Alpine" on them. Not sure where their office is.

 

the $5,000 at Sunset is for owner-operators but they have company trucks too (I assume/think)
my mistake CKJ WHy did I say K&J? They say 3 years required, but I suspect they relax that requirement on occasion.
http://ckjtrucking.com/drivers.htm

 

I honestly don't know. I suspect they do, I just don't know how consistently they do. As with anything tied to construction, large state job contracts, and weather, there are going to be slow periods and busy periods.

Lattimore used to haul all there own aggregate when I was there many years ago but they sold off their haul truck operations to Sunset and just kept the concrete side.

Alpine may run out of an old Lattimore yard east of McKinney but I could be mistaken but I doubt they take o-o's and they seem to be a small player in the DFW area anyway.

 

I did a year in belly dumps around Waco......no 5 grand there, not even close. Way over saturated and cheap. Statewide was the big player along with Aggregate Haulers. I rolled the 35 corridor and between the pits and traffic, I couldn't get anywhere. DFW could be a different story though. Best thing to do is find a couple of O/O's and buy em breakfast....... State jobs were good enough but when they call the carrier will dispatch all 50 trucks at once........so your tied up at the pit, and then your tied up at the job.....naw, not for me.....

If you just have too then i'd lease a carrier trailer on a per job % basis. You get rained out then you don't pay........

JMO

Oh yeah, hows your spanish??

 

Better get a Spanish course. Better yet, you'll learn it anyway.

 

don't know the rates in texas. but i have a couple of o/o friends in utah. they defenitly aren't making 5g a week.

65 an hour. times 10 hours if they're lucky. and 5 days a week, again if they're lucky. that's 3250 a week. they've been struggling for work since the economy tanked.

but that's just utah. not as much to offer as texas.