Post by BuckSkin on Oct 2, 2021 7:23:31 GMT
A Long Wait to Weigh In
I stepped out on the fuel tank to take this one; at bottom-right, you can see the corner of the hood of the red truck I am driving.
Twin lines and twin scales.
The majority of the trucks here today are hauling soybeans.
The trucks are waiting their turn to have the grain sampled and then to proceed onto the scales to take loaded weight.
The two robotic arms, visible between the two front trucks, are "probes" that take numerous samples of the load to insure that unscrupulous farmers haven't loaded good grain on top of trashy grain; an innovation made necessary by the all too common practice.
Many have been black-listed and can't sell here or anywhere else.
I waited in line about three hours and was told that today was a light day; often, the line forms on the other side of town.
The unloading takes place in the big blue building on the other side of the dangerously busy multi-lane street.
Once unloaded, you must again cross the busy street and onto the scales to take the empty weight; unlike the rock quarry, where you weigh the empty truck once in it's career and never take the empty weight again, these people have been done every which way by unscrupulous farmers and take no chances in getting an honest weight.
If they only took the empty weight the first time and then referred to that initial empty weight, the farmer would strip the truck bare, fill the tires with Helium, and bring it in sucking the bottom of the fuel tank.
Once he got his empty weight established, he would pile in every heavy item he could find, hydraulic jacks, log chains, tool boxes, beer coolers, his wife, and he would fill the tanks right before getting there; and, he would get paid for all this extra weight with every load he delivered.
Taking the empty weight every trip averts any such less than honest behavior.
When they give you the green light at the scales, you pull to the side, go in the scalehouse, and they will give you an invoice and a check about half as long as your arm.
On this day, I stuck a $10,082.55 check in my shirt pocket.
I heard them say a few days ago that they had locked in several loads at $14.82; over half again.
Owensboro Grain
Grain Brokers and Elevators
South Bank of the Ohio
Owensboro - Daviess County - Kentucky
01-November-2016
I stepped out on the fuel tank to take this one; at bottom-right, you can see the corner of the hood of the red truck I am driving.
Twin lines and twin scales.
The majority of the trucks here today are hauling soybeans.
The trucks are waiting their turn to have the grain sampled and then to proceed onto the scales to take loaded weight.
The two robotic arms, visible between the two front trucks, are "probes" that take numerous samples of the load to insure that unscrupulous farmers haven't loaded good grain on top of trashy grain; an innovation made necessary by the all too common practice.
Many have been black-listed and can't sell here or anywhere else.
I waited in line about three hours and was told that today was a light day; often, the line forms on the other side of town.
The unloading takes place in the big blue building on the other side of the dangerously busy multi-lane street.
Once unloaded, you must again cross the busy street and onto the scales to take the empty weight; unlike the rock quarry, where you weigh the empty truck once in it's career and never take the empty weight again, these people have been done every which way by unscrupulous farmers and take no chances in getting an honest weight.
If they only took the empty weight the first time and then referred to that initial empty weight, the farmer would strip the truck bare, fill the tires with Helium, and bring it in sucking the bottom of the fuel tank.
Once he got his empty weight established, he would pile in every heavy item he could find, hydraulic jacks, log chains, tool boxes, beer coolers, his wife, and he would fill the tanks right before getting there; and, he would get paid for all this extra weight with every load he delivered.
Taking the empty weight every trip averts any such less than honest behavior.
When they give you the green light at the scales, you pull to the side, go in the scalehouse, and they will give you an invoice and a check about half as long as your arm.
On this day, I stuck a $10,082.55 check in my shirt pocket.
I heard them say a few days ago that they had locked in several loads at $14.82; over half again.
Owensboro Grain
Grain Brokers and Elevators
South Bank of the Ohio
Owensboro - Daviess County - Kentucky
01-November-2016
