saskatoon sask | RayJenkins - 2/22/2014 16:10
A lot of grain haulers have gone out of business , as most farmers haul there own with older rigs
broken1961,
A lot of truth in your last statement
15-20 years I had a three ring binder full of folks who were in the grain hauling business here in our local area. 95% of those folks have either aged out or left the grain hauling biz in favor of other uses for their trucks......and of course we have seen the huge growth in farmer owned grain hauling rigs as well.
Which means we do not have the "surge capacity" of available freight that used to exist...
But I am learning a lot in a short period of time and have made some contacts this weekend....
Badger, I will be contacting you sometime Sunday PM
Ray J Ray, I hope you do find a way to take some of the grain from Canada, I didn t mean to come off sounding like a jack--s, but most people haven t figured the real cost to truck grain, guys with super bees figure there running costs at close to 1$ a mile, depending on the weather, but the van idea sounds great, just that nobody up here has a lift to unload one, getting people to think outside the box sometimes helps, half the farmers up here want something resolved with the railway, while the other half says, just tighten your belt, an ride her out! I just hope some one builds a pipeline to get oil off the rail lines |