Posted by Ultradog MN on April 05, 2016 at 05:01:52 from (172.56.20.199):
I've thought about this before but never asked here. You see a lot of semis hauling grain to market. In the city here I see a lot of them at the big, big elevators. Some of them are pretty fancy - big shiny Kenworths and Peterbilts. A lot of them pulling new grain trailers. So there must be some money to be made in grain. $1.50 to $2 a mile? My question is more about the value of the loads they're hauling. How many bushels of grain will one of those trailers haul? I suppose it is measured by weight and not by volume? Maybe 20 or 22 ton in a load? Do they test the moisture content at the elevator and pay accordingly? Or does the moisture have to be at a certain % before the elevator will take it? Does the load come from smaller, rural elevators or straight from the farm? What is a typical load of corn or wheat worth? ADM has a big elevator a few miles from me. Always a lot of trucks there waiting to unload.
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