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bverellen

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Anybody got a handle on current freight charges for a pot load of cattle, probably less than a 100 mile trip?

I'm doing some pre-work for an upcoming Ranching for Profit class in January and need some fairly accurate numbers.

Thanks....

bart.
 
bverellen said:
Anybody got a handle on current freight charges for a pot load of cattle, probably less than a 100 mile trip?

I'm doing some pre-work for an upcoming Ranching for Profit class in January and need some fairly accurate numbers.

Thanks....

bart.
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It's been costing $450 per pot load for us to haul 65 miles from our ranch into Valentine.
 
$1,200 from here to Dawson Creek (less than 100 miles)

Not that that helps you bverellen, I'm just bitchin' :wink:
 
hayguy said:
so on average how many calves can they haul in todays pot's?
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Up here with a tandem truck and a tridem trailer about 62,000 lbs. Which by my figuring would be 100 calves at 620 lbs.

The tri drive trucks you can add at least 15 more of those 620 pounders.
 
Thank's Silver, 12$ a loaded mile seem's plenty steep to me, i think i'd be bitchin' too. but then i sure wouldn't want to be running a truck these day's either :lol:
 
$1450 to haul the 220 miles to Williams Lake with a tridem trailer. $145.00 per hour is the rate for the backroads.

Silver, I think I would be finding a different hauler.
 
gcreekrch said:
$1450 to haul the 220 miles to Williams Lake with a tridem trailer. $145.00 per hour is the rate for the backroads.

Silver, I think I would be finding a different hauler.
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Well, problem is there are only so many haulers. When these guys can deck off their liner, pin on a lowbed and make $250 / hr in the patch for as many hours as they can handle we end up feeling fortunate there are any people at all who will haul cattle. No one hauls by the mile here unless they are going way south. It's by the hour and you pay both ways. Ah well, small price to pay for doing what we love in the best place there is to do it :D

Oh, it turns out I exaggerated a bit. According to my slips we paid between about $1050 and $1,150 per load this year. Turns out I was bitchin' about nothin'! :lol:
 
I paid $800 to $850 per load last year to go 200 miles from the ranch to the barn in La Junta, CO last year and fuel prices are down 30 to 40 cents per gallon this year.

So for a short haul I would think somewhere around the $5/loaded mile range would be a good guess.
 
We have been looking at sending our cull cows to Arizona and been getting pretty much the same price from everyone and that is 4.00 a loaded mile for a 48000 lbs load and 4.10 a loaded mile for a 60000 lbs load we are 600 miles away from fhe kill plant. but everyone I have talked to says that is the price for 100 miles or more.
 
Road diesel is $1.399 a liter right now. Don't think the haulers (other than Silver's :D) are making big money.

Often thought I should own a liner, a good sleep and the insane feeling goes away. :lol:
 
gcreekrch said:
Often thought I should own a liner, a good sleep and the insane feeling goes away. :lol:
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I think that depends on the situation. For us we have a couple trucks just sitting in the shed doing nothing when it's time to haule cattle and for the price of an aluminum goose neck you can find a pretty nice pot. Also for us anything under I believe 250 miles from home no need for anything other than farm tag. We just haul our own. No way I would do it for a living though. Everybody is different I guess. I would rather pay someone to haul bales than my cattle. That's just me. I hate hauling bales even a few miles.
 
The worst thing about being a trucker hauling livestock would be cleaning out the trailer when the deed is done. That, and trying to stay awake while driving. :wink: I am happy hiring truckers to haul both cattle and hay. They need to make a living, too. :-)
 

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