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@@timbrooks4350 sorry for late response but I never hauled milk prior to starting a year and a half ago. It's a matter of being clean and organized mostly. Making good relationships with your farmers and dairy's is key.
Good video. How heavy are all the components that you're having to handle? Id also be concerned with being strong enough to tighten and loosen everything?
Sorry for that late response but not crazy heavy at all. If your can do basic yard work or something like that you could handle this job. Nothing is overly heavy . Thanks for coming by .
Just found your channel, interested in a milk hauling job here in Canada, doing a ride along soon. I like watch your stuff to see what I’m getting into! Currently a OTR driver tho
There's probably an offset mount available. Or you could go with a lav mic, which would capture your vocals better against the loud noises of your cool profession.
We use that as the guidelines recommend an ice bath for the milk samples. Fridge would require power constant and the pump is electric at the farm and the trailers are dropped from time to time. Ice is constant cold unpowered
Did this working intake for 7 years at local milk bottling plant. Pulled sample of load, took temperature, tore all the pumps apart, washed and disassembled hose ends, filled chest with fresh ice, washed entire cabinets and helped with more of the truck if time permitted. Loved that job
I don’t deal with surge as much as some. My route now has all my stops close together and leaves my truck completely full daily. Helping also is the fact of 2 separate pots that cuts done that surge. When I first started I had a single pot Smooth bore trailer that I felt it more on . I will be sure to addresss it on the next video I make. Thanks for coming by .
I’m happy that you chose to not wear gloves but I choose to wear them to protect my hands from the weather and the harsh soaps and solvents. I go to several farms daily and do a thorough job rinsing and cleaning. I then go to the dairy where I again have to clean the hoses and parts from farm pickup and to ready my trailer for the next day.
Thank you for your Chanel, this brings back so many memories for me. My Dad and uncle both hauled milk from farms here in East Tennesse. I’ve ridden many miles with my dad hauling milk. My uncle actually started hauling milk when he was very young with a goat hooked to a small wagon picking up old milk cans. Thanks again, really enjoy it!
As I said in the description it was my first video of my daily work grind and beginning could have been trimmed. My editing skills weren’t great and I thought car part was long however I appreciate your kind words confirming this. Havr a Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.
I'm OTR dry van. I've wanted to drive the milk truck since I was a kid and loved it when the truck came to my Aunt's dairy farm. I'm in Minnesota but gotta say - you live in a beautiful area !!!! I picked up a load in Baltimore Tues and driving back through MD/PA was so scenic.
Hey thanks for coming by the channel. No owner operator as the areas are owned by milk hauling companies. At least around here. Pa is a huge independent dairy farm area as the farm owners go but the hauling part is big areas owned by companies. Earnings is all on schedule. I work a lighter schedule due to having kids. I work 4 days a week and make roughly 1100 gross. Now that’s just a single route. You can run 1.5 routes or double trip which can make you 300-550 daily depending on if it’s a weekend and what you do. For example we have a guy that works 6 days a week, roughly 8-9 hrs a day but can be longer for sure and makes $1900-2000 on 1.5 routes per day. That’s a set of pickups and deliver to dairy factory and then pickups again. Or deliver then pickups then deliver. It’s really all about what you want to work with my company. Im sure it varies company to company . Thanks again for watching . Maybe I will do a earnings vid. I will keep that in mind.
Nice vid man, love the POV of your day. I've been looking to get into some sort of tanker work lately. What do the different colored sample bottles mean?
@atulrich93 that’s a great question ! They correspond with what cooperatives the farm is under. Brown - land o lakes , clear - dfa dairy farmer of America, gold is Cumberland valley and Maryland /Virginia . Each farm runs under a chosen coop dairy system. So we use the corresponding bottle color for there coop. Thanks for watching !
Avg route is 7-9 hrs $200-250, 1.5 routes 10-11 hrs is 300-375 or so ,double is 12 avg hours $400-500. These are all ballpark Averages at my company. Pay will vary by who you work for and what kind of run you do. There’s transport runs that take milk for a to b not farms and they are faster and you do more then 1-2 a day. More driving with those.
FYI , if you have a lot of bubbles in your sight glass when measuring? Spray hot water on the tube and your bubbles will disappear a lot faster. Maybe you already know this but thought I’d pass it on 👍
I live in Lancaster pa , def curious who you drive for. Maybe you’d rather not say and that’s cool. I have hauled milk and I’m getting back into again now. Enjoy your videos TJ.
Greeting from Pennsylvania!!! Dude i haul milk up here in central PA. I go to Lansdale, Reading, Carlisle, and Hershey. Occasionally we go to Laurel, MD. Glad i found a fellow milk hauler on RU-vid! Be safe out there bud!
Laurel is horrible for fitting trucks in those bays. I have been there a handful of times. Just a wierd process all the way around with walking samples over and doing your own paperwork.
Yeah definitely not my fave. We used to go to Schreibers and Rutters and Turkey Hill but we got kicked out because of the co-ops changing. We haul DFA and LOL.
@@reezee412 barrick and Stewart is who I work for . There are lots of other companies that haul milk well . If you live in a different area then search milk hauling in the place you live and see what pops up. Personally I like hauling milk. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching !
Welcome! I cover Franklin county Pennsylvania and Washington county Maryland. I go to dairies in Frederick, md , Carlisle ,pa , Winchester,va and Hancock,md mostly. Not sure of the counties for some of those. Thanks again for coming by ! Glad to have you.
Great video. Can you tell me what is your usual schedule. My husband has a CDL and we have a small family owned raw milk hauler near us. The owner told me we need to get a tanker endorsement on his CDL. Wondering if the pay and amount of work is worth it. Also, what region are you in and how is this job done during winter cold months? Owner said they haul within a 800 mile radius and needs us out for a week at a time. What’s the rules on that with DOT. We are aware of the 150 mile ag exemption. Originally my husband has experience in dry van no tough fright and refeer as well as rv transportation.
My normal schedule really whatever fits you. At my job I set what I want. I like my route main route which is every other day. Same farms. I also fill in on my Sunday off so I work 4 days a week. I make avg 200-375 plus wait time everyday. It differs based on route and if it’s a weekend or not. Some companies pay extra for weekends and also pay is different depending. You can make 1000 for 4 day’s minimum in my experience. If you want to run long days we have guys that work 5 days and make nearly 1800-2000. They run 2 routes daily. We run within the 150 air mile rule so we don’t need to run logs unless you run outside that. My company is flexible. A lot of farms do either everyday or every other day pickup schedules. You also have to get out and set up hose for pumping at the farm and test milk so it’s not no touch. You also need to pass a small test for sampling license. At the dairy you will wash your pump components and hoses and things like that. Hope this helps.
The tanker endorsement is easy back when I did mine like almost 10 years ago it was just like a 20 question exam at the DMV and basically common sense knowledge but I also had a buddy that taught me the basics on a couple loads then sente on my way did that for a few loads then we decided I should go get the endorsement lol I was hauling fertilizer from central Florida up to mater farms in south Carolina I loved it did a load every day during season
Cost of living is more expensive he 19:10 re. 1800.00 a month for rent. Houses are 450 thousand. Or more. new houses are 700 thousand or more. That requires higher pay to live here A lot of new people moving here from out of state. Drives up the demand and prices.
Yea seems like rent in my town has hiked up a lot recently but not as bad as that. These days having that “American dream” is getting unreachable for most.
The money in NH is better for truck drivers is 25 to 35 an hour especially on highway dept But you have to plow in the winter. I dont know what milk haulers make. At least your job is constant every week. In my business emergency service pays well but some weekends are slow, which is ok.
Sorry about the portrait mode. I did this video on the fly with my iPhone and recorded it all in this vertical orientation. It also downgraded quality to 1080. It won’t be this normally. Standard will be 16:9 4K . Thanks for watching and being a part of my journey.
Hope all is well. I work a lot and been staying busy as a dad. I got a new pc that’s a lot faster then my old one too . I be getting on and checkin in with you . You are an awesome human and was always super cool. Don’t ever stop being you. Your Top shelf.
They definitely can be some long days hauling milk. Some driver do back to back routes everyday that can take 16 hrs so I agree with that . I think 21.50 is low for any class a driving hourly rate imo. Good drivers are hard to find. Our company does a salary avg $205 plus weekend differential $50 per run and wait time at $20/hr over 2 hrs at dairy.
@@MilkHaulingwithTj just got word back from them training pay is 21.50 a hour then after u get your sampler license 23.50 is top pay with overtime after 40 and schedule 5 on 2 off 5 on 3 off asked why pay is so low said a lot of down time at dairy’s up to 5-6 hours sometimes
@@Canecorso14 me personally : I get paid 205$ for a 7 hr route. Any wait time above that is 20$ an hr. Also there’s a 50$ weekend bonus per route run . A lot of guys run a route and a half or doubles. For example: I cover a Sunday route and a half which is 300$ plus 50 bonus plus 25 bonus for the half. So it’s about 375 with no wait time for 10-12 hrs of work. It works out nicely . Hourly is always nice too. Depends on how you work honestly . I’m a get it done no stop and eat guy. Take your time and cruise guys probably be better by the hour. My job I work 4 short days sometimes 5 my choice and gross over a grand . The guys that run 6 days of a route and a half make around 2 grand. All local of course.
@@MilkHaulingwithTjthanks for info ya probably look for something else don’t seem to good and to make good money need to work 16 hours a day and that’s to much will get burnt out doing that every day
I really appreciate you taking the time to check my channel out. Glad to have you here. What make of truck do you drive? let me know of any other cool farming channels I'd love to check them out. I will be posting more from this day also. I broke it down into parts so it wasn't crazy long.
WE have a farmer up on the hill in NH. He has a co op tanker come in early am, even in snowstorms. He has a robot system I believe. I see the DeLaval service truck their occasionally. He has bout 2 0r 300 cows. I think his son is going to take over eventually. There are expensive subdivisions being built here. New home owners might not like smell of manure.
Yea it’s rain or shine . Every holiday too . The cows need milked and the milk needs hauled regardless of the day or weather. 200-300 is a good size! My biggest is about 140-150. I hear you about the smell at the farms . Those hot days and they spread fresh manure is Definitely an acquired taste lol 😂. Thanks for checking out the video.
I like getting up early and getting a jump on the day.I rarely hit traffic out on the route. So it makes the route go smoothly. The biggest factor is how long you spend delivering at the dairy. Thanks so much for watching !
Mine will as I play on ps5 Version 1.5 I usually have to drag the aim up higher like putting the bottom of aim box at head and it will usually work it’s way to the head square. If not maybe you have a weapon attachment for limbs (no kill) or even the Kiroshi mod for aiming at limbs and doesn’t kill. Try those out hope it helps!
