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Dick2

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My nephew sold 70 feeder calves at the livestock auction yesterday in Jamestown, ND. They were all sold to a feedlot somewhere in Illinois, but he didn't get the location.

He was wondering how long the calves would be on the road to IL? (Assume somewhere in central IL to estimate hours for the calves to be in the double decker truck.)

He talks to some order buyers a couple weeks before he takes the calves to market so they have buyers arranged for that auction. He has more left to sell, but they need a little more conditioning.
 
Jamestown to Peoria is 780 miles so to be legal they would need to take a 10 hr break. So about 24 hrs. Some might fudge that much and make it in 12 hrs plus stops.
 
In these cold temps they will be frozen.

I guess if they are sold and he has his money it is the buyers problem if any die in transit.
 

I think they have shutters to cover the cracks on those bull racks to keep the cold air out. The animal heat will collect in there. Also the animals won't lay down while the truck is moving.
 
Lots of cattle moved from Alberta to Ontario over the years, not so much now. BIL fed western calves here in Ont. and was a lot happier with animals off the truck as opposed to the train. Many potloads landed in his yard with team drivers running pretty much non-stop. Can't remember how long it took though.This was before hours of service laws were like they are now and logbooks were unheard of.
 
i know my amish neighbor brought his cows in and i think that was non stop.we have had one guy go from wisc to new york and tried to make it back nonstop the amish with him told him he better take a nap after he went off the road the mules in the trailer wernt consulted but i think the agreed
 
Jack,do you remember when that cousin of the Snyder brothers that lived on Beardslee Road east of Lincoln Lake Road moved? They took those dairy cattle all the way to North Carolina. Wilber Smith said those trucks pretty much never stopped the whole way down.
I said Homer Smith the first time,but it was Wilber. I had two neighbors combined there. Wilber lived on one side of them and Homer Addis lived on the other side.
 
Good friend of mine hauls weaning calves from Virginia to Western KS about every week or so. I believe he may have a second driver, but they don't stop on the way out.
Hard to imagine the cost to bring them clear out here.
When they close up the trailer sides, they have to be careful not to close them up too much so they don't get hot.
I hauled hogs for my Father in Law for a couple of years. He had a triple floor trailer. You have not had fun until you try to wrestle a bunch of boars out of the bottom floor. Between the boars fighting and knocking you into the cr@p on the floor, it can be quite entertaining...to someone on the outside..Lol!
 
(quoted from post at 06:12:09 01/22/14) My nephew sold 70 feeder calves at the livestock auction yesterday in Jamestown, ND. They were all sold to a feedlot somewhere in Illinois, but he didn't get the location.

He was wondering how long the calves would be on the road to IL? (Assume somewhere in central IL to estimate hours for the calves to be in the double decker truck.)

He talks to some order buyers a couple weeks before he takes the calves to market so they have buyers arranged for that auction. He has more left to sell, but they need a little more conditioning.
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Livestock haulers operate under a slightly different set of rules. That truck most likely will not stop anywhere until it has reached its destination and the calves are unloaded.
 
Bobl1958

Vhen I hauled cattle and hogs, one of the stinkiest messes I ever vittnesed some ol'boys vere trying to load a bunch of boars.
Yo could smell them a mile away.
 
Friend of mine was a "bull hauler" for a few years. Often picked up a load of fats in Grand Island NE and delivered to Green Bay- running straight thru, no relief driver. Biggest headache was if the cattle laid down while in transit- also didn"t close up the vents in the winter- cattle will overheat.
 
Lot of fat cattle come out of southern Canada in to Greeley Co.
I regularly use sale Barns in Sterling Co and Torrington Wyl both over a three hundred mile haul.
It is amazing the amount of miles beef cattle have on them before market.
I have a bull hauler neighbor who hauls cattle out of a ranch in southern wy heavy 1/3 of calfves go to feedlot in sw Kansas the other 2/3's go to Southern California for winter grass Top 1/3 are feed after grass in California and rest go back to Wyoming for summer grass before going on to Kansas.
 
(quoted from post at 10:44:13 01/22/14) Jack,do you remember when that cousin of the Snyder brothers that lived on Beardslee Road east of Lincoln Lake Road moved? They took those dairy cattle all the way to North Carolina. Wilber Smith said those trucks pretty much never stopped the whole way down.
I said Homer Smith the first time,but it was Wilber. I had two neighbors combined there. Wilber lived on one side of them and Homer Addis lived on the other side.
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I do remember when he moved, but don't remember where.
I ran with a Houston driver from McBain once in the middle of the Winter. He was coming from Kansas, but don't remember to where. They run the year around.
 
I used to work at Tyson's in Joslin, IL. I was a 3rd shift supervisor in the yards scaling and unloading cattle. This a couple hours south of Rockford in N. Central IL. We used to get cattle from the east coast and Canada. I think we were the farthest east Tyson plant.
 
Now Jon, I know you are a freight hauler, but can you honestly say you never run over your 10 hours?
I haven't driven a "truck" in a number of years, but this fall, I hauled a load of 12 Longhorn cows from 65 miles south west of Wendover NV, back home to Mullen NE. A touch over 900 miles, and drove it straight through. Was I tired? Yep. Was I a danger to others or myself? I don't think so.
Back when I did drive all the time, I could run longer and harder, then any of the guys taking their stay awake stuff.
 
Yep you can run farther..When you stop you can sleep, when they stop they can't sleep, and the bod will get where it can't go no more, no matter what they take.
 
A good trucking outfit will get them there as soon as possible.To be legal a stop is necessary but probably wont happen until they reach their destination.Take the miles and divide it by around 55 and you will be close.
 
Back in "the day" which is what most of these folks are talking about yes I did. There were many times I drove from Austin Tx. to chicago without stopping. Not now tho for several reasons. First, I don't want to work that hard anymore. I make just as much now as then and don't have to drink so much coffee. Second I don't want to hurt or kill anyone for a dollar. No matter what anyone says it's dagerous to drive tired and that long of trip would have you tired long before you got there which is why there are laws. And third and most important, I don't want to go to prison, yes the BIG HOUSE. Most every state has sent truckers to prison for having an accident while driving over their hours. Dart has 2 drivers sitting in prison now because they got in accidents while driving past their hours. One was a drunk that ran a stoplight and ran into a truck with his bicycle, another was a motor cyclist that ran a stop sign and got under the truck. Even tho both were drunk it was determined it was mostly the truckers fault because he shouldn't have been there. And finally today we have 11 hours of drive time each day, we got the extra hour when they went from 8 to 10 hours for the break.
 
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