What a great representative for your company. If collecting milk was that easy here in the US we would never be looking for drivers. Why in the heck can’t we learn from each other? Thank you for sharing.
Wow mate, you get a system that shows you your farms and guides you in. I did it for 3 years with SJ Bargh in the UK and if we had to pick up any extra farms we had to just hope it was easy to find lol. The equipment you use looks far slicker than what I had. That wag and drag looks really long. Is it easy to positioned with it? Thanks for posting this, I may end up trucking for abit when we move over in a couple of years.
Im a supervisor for a milk hauler in the USA (Washington State) your set up... is simply amazing!... what was the cost of the vehicle? That truck is WAY more advanced than what I currently have to work with.. I am a bit jealous of you guys.
Tanker in the US requires an extra endorsement and it's a little more dangerous so the pay is better it should be the same thing in the UK or wherever he's from. Probably about 300 plus dollars per day of work and they could work 5 days a week which could be 14 hours a day
@@SImpleeSTARstruCK I know, but all I know is what I make in the U.S. and I just checked out the asker's question, he has rick ross in his subscriber list so likely he's in the U.S. too unless U.K. people are huge fans of rick ross
It depends on what they negotiate but I am a truck driver so I know that generally they work 14 hours a day 5 days a week and they make about 300 plus dollars a day and they usually get paid per hour plus overtime over 40
@@eksine The question was about total cost of moving the milk I think, but to correct you: I am a tanker driver for Fonterra like this guy. We work on a seasonal hours / shift work contract. The sifts are: 3 days, 3 nights, 3 off. As it’s seasonal, our contract is based on hours. My contract is for 2297 hours. I am paid fortnightly, but only get 8 hours per shift worked. The excess that I work over and above 8 hours still comes off my contracted hours, until I have completed my 2297. Then, I have finished my season, and I may end up with 2-3 months off (including annual leave / holidays), depending on how soon I complete my contracted hours. The 2297 hours are effectively spread across the whole year, based on 8 hours per shift day on that shift pattern, so we get that fortnightly pay right through the year, even in the off season. You can earn more at some other trucking jobs in NZ, but you’d need to do 6 days a week and spend nights away from home to do it. The hourly rate is now above NZ$40, so the earning is good, but what I love about the job, is the work/life balance: Home every night. Guaranteed 3 days off in a row, in every 9 day cycle. Guaranteed income every fortnight. And if you have a big season and complete your contracted hours early, you could end up with 3+ months off at the end of the season, while you still get paid the same every fortnight.
@@MrTimmytimmytimtim 8 hours plus any on duty time doesn't sound like much. It sounds almost like a regular job. I work for Walmart now and we make close to $100k per year, that's united States dollars. So for a 2 week paycheck I pull about $4,000 USD gross, what do you guys make? I stopped hualing tanker, I only did that for a short while
@@lonewolf6364 the truck already knows the data to assign to the samples. That’s done through GPS and farm info from the database. The rfid tag is there to ensure you are hooked onto the correct vat (not a calf milk / colostrum vat). Also, some farms work on a co-op basis, where there are two seperate vats, each with their own farm number and seperate, differing rfid profiles. He is supposed to attach the rfid BEFORE opening the tap, because the MSS screen will tell you if you are at the wrong vat. The big vats that hold more than 30,000litres will start pumping through gravity alone, so if you open the tap before attaching the rfid, you WILL end up with SOME of the WRONG milk on board. Therefore, he was supposed to attach the “puck” and let the MSS confirm he was hooked onto the correct vat BEFORE he opened the tap
Idk what this guy is talking about trying to explain how many kilos of this and fluid pounds of that....that's one days worth of milk in that truck for my Madalenas
Four axle truck & four axle trailer. Also have some 5 axle trailers in the fleet as well, (2 forward, 3 rear). Truck & trailer units are better suited for our terrain & windy country roads here in NZ, since the trailers track better than a semi and cut the corners less. Also, carrying capacity is greater than a tri axle semi trailer, but perhaps not quite that of a quad axle semi. However, a truck and trailer unit will go where neither semi can.
