I'm in the same business. I dont understand why they cant have 2 shifts. Why make people come in at 12am or 3am and work till 6pm or later? Have some dedicated guys, new guys low on seniority, start at 9am and work to finish so the early guys can go home in the early afternoon.
@@grabbinggears109 for real, it’s even worse when you’re halfway through washing up the truck and they say “hey we got 1 more the were short” but I agree, you just gotta make the most of it. It’s a love hate relationship of a job lol
LOL--- Man, you really called it; Curb jobs with a manual is a WORKOUT. Even though you're in granny gear it's still to fast for the curb machine. I'd get requested because I happened to be pretty good at it (not bragging. you GET good when you do it long enough!), so it was like nice for my bosses to hear contractors request me, but no mixer driver I've ever known "likes" a curb job. We'd like to have PUMP jobs all day! Paradise: 3pm and you get a nice pump job...or a wheelbarrow job; 10 yards, and 3 guy wheelbarrow brigade...probably be your last of the day...or not. Another job I think most of us dreaded was the Basement pour where the guys have a chute (or what they call a chute) sticking out of this little window. These sometimes took so long that the mud would start setting up. You told the contractor, "Hey, it doesn't matter how much more water we put in, it's been in there too long. We gotta get this off." Man, it would take forever to get those clumps down from the top of the chute and the sides. A good driver knows when he's come upon a crew that is not working well together. I would jump down out of my truck and say, "Who has the fuzzy nuts on this job? Cause you two are both giving me different signals, Ok?" That's all it took. One guy would take over and we'd get along famously after. Ahh, sorry for going on so long...I guess I just miss it. I'm retired now. But some days I'm driving, doing an errand for my wife or whatever and there's a mixer or a dump truck with a load of asphalt (which I used to haul in Florida early '90's), I'll follow along, especially the asphalt, that SMELL...reminds me of those 12 hour days hauling that 300+ degree asphalt in that blistering Southwest Florida sun in old R model Macks with no a/c...and it was a BLAST! Enjoy it, my friend...lap it up. Take Good Care!!
I'm watching because I just got hired by a rear discharge company. I have 3 years running a front discharge. Trying to get an idea what to expect from rear discharge.
Always annoying when guys are washing out and then you get back to the yard and they send you on another job …. It’s like why couldn’t you send one of the guys that are already in the yard 😂
I once had a job where I had to be an hour and a half away from home by 6 am. I had to be up by 3:30 am. I lasted a month. I fell asleep on the thruway and was awaken by the rumble strip. Never again.
Did it back in 1992 thur 97 back then we had old mixers no A/C plus standards trucks we would go in at mid night 12:00am get off around 7 or 8 pm no safety hate it found another job , y'all got High Tech mixers
Oh man. I wish I only ran 4 loads a day. We normally have 4 loads done by 10am. I think I average 9 or 10 daily. We are way understaffed and over booked.. it kind of sucks.
don't know when your day starts or ends until about the end of the day or when the next days schedule comes out ,operating a mixer is more than a job its a lifestyle . basically you are no more than a truck part if you don't perform as expected you WILL be replaced like a head light . be safe out there everyone !
Last time a customer tryed to add another load when the batch plant was shut off he made alot of calls until manager called and asked me put the truck under i was ready to clock out so i took it so wet it looked like pump wash customer didnt reject it because it would of been over an hour to go back and forth and he really needed the load. This is a guy that pulled this crap all the time since then never again has he done that
LOL that's the worst. One time I was clocked out and in my car when the batcher called me for a late load. I don't answer my phone if I'm clocked out any more hahaha
@@grabbinggears109 i do the same i dont answer but that day the loader guy was the other guy there and they told him how to turn the the plant on and load me thru the phone so i took it wet 😂
I was 35 minutes East from my home plant this week and they told me to drive all the way back 35 west and then after I got there I fueled up and then they told me to drive all the way 35 minutes back to the plant that was right next to the job I just drove from 🤦♂️
Few things pushed my buttons more as a mixer driver than showing up to a job with a freshly cleaned truck and having someone put their muddy hands all over my chutes or fendors. One day I stopped pouring and made a whole crew wait on me while I washed my fendor off after someone put their muddy mag on it. Bruh, I don't throw mud at your f-250, don't get my stuff dirty when you don't have to.
You're lucky that crew is letting you pour a curb machine at a 2. Ive had to deal with a curb machine crew who pours at a 0. Leave the drum on full discharge, and it still takes an hour for 10 yards...my clutch foot is numb by the end of the pour.
@@Hayabusa-ll7fo u have to cut them off at some point. And it's not a bad idea to always fill ur water water tank back up before u leave the lot... I've come very close to running out of water couple times, but I had to tell them to stop using my water till I was done cleaning my shoots..
yeah, that's my #1 complaint about this job: U never know what time u will get off.. and never know what time u will start! fuck!... But other than that, it's a pretty good job
Driving a mixer is a great career! I was making 75,000 a year way back in 1991. That's not counting the extra 500 to 1000 a week I was saleing in leftover! In 2001 I was making 27.50 hrs plus 500 -1000 a week in leftover! I lived & partied like a Rockstar!! Mixer drivers has to rely on illegal drugs just to survive the 90 to 100 hours a week we were required to work! The drivers that didn't indulge in illegal substances didn't make it!!
@tomhomer891 We had a mechanic who we'd go to in his little shop and get a gram of quality blow on those 3am mornings where we'd have to pour a bowling alley, then at 6am the "regular day" would start. A blast up each nostril from the bullet, NO PROBLEM!! Some liked Coffee, Some liked Cocaine...their both drugs. I'm retired now. I don't think I'd like the automatic trucks, though. I mean, pouring is the real job, but I liked my old R model Mack when I first started way back...and later my Oshkosh 10 speed...that truck would pull out of quicksand! I ended my career with an 8 speed Mack. It was just fun, you had a connection with your truck when you could feel the interaction, you knew by the sound when it was time to shift, up or down. But I'm old...you Young Cowboys take it from here...Take care, drivers!
Whats up with all those drop down axles on those mixers. Here in Florida our mixer only have 1 drop down.plus do fuys even have air down system like a tire a boss
U pour into a "thingy" like u would for a pump job, but u have to keep moving forward a few inches at a time as u continually discharge slowly. It's a pain in the ass if u have manual transmission because its clutch, brake, clutch brake,clutch brake constantly. It gets tiring on ur legs after 20 min of that bullshit. If the dispatcher had any brains or heart, he would put only trucks with automatic transmissions on these stupid curb jobs!
Most drivers can eye ball it by looking in the drum and give a rough estimate from experience and also for certain drums on the mixers when the concrete gets down to about 2-2.5 yards you will start to hear rattling. If you want to know exactly how much is left just return to the yard to get your new weight on the scale then subtract your empty unloaded weight from your new weight and divide it by 4000.
Yeah man, it's a guessing game. I get a good look when I get BATCHED with one or two yards, then later I can sort of compare my left-overs (retain) and guess.
Haha, I'm new to the industry. After you've done a few loads and you're a person that pays attention it's pretty easy to tell... for me it's the rocks towards the front of the drum lol kinda hard to miss
In Pittsburgh Pa. We often never left the plant for 3 days at a time! Nobody was paying attention to DOT laws! If we did we would have never got anything done! The drivers that worked for the companies that I did were all snorting cocaine just to make it through our 90 to 100 hour a week schedules!! If you didn't you couldn't make it!
Nothing wrong with making money but also wishing to enjoy yourself too and having a life outside of your job. Your job should not be your whole lifestyle.
I'm in the same business. I dont understand why they cant have 2 shifts. Why make people come in at 12am or 3am and work till 6pm or later? Have some dedicated guys, new guys low on seniority, start at 9am and work to finish so the early guys can go home in the early afternoon.
I am in the same business, and always wondered about this. Makes no sense to just beat on people.
How can you tell when a dispatcher is lying to you? When his lips move!! Lol
Been there, I hate catching that last load watching everyone going home. Keep at it!
Dude it's such a kick in the gut sometimes... I just tell myself that it's just more money for my family and I can calm down after a few hours LOL...
@@grabbinggears109 for real, it’s even worse when you’re halfway through washing up the truck and they say “hey we got 1 more the were short” but I agree, you just gotta make the most of it. It’s a love hate relationship of a job lol
Get out of this business before it eats you up and you are a lonely old man. You are worth more than this. You can do better.
@@thetruthisoutthereyt what do you do for a living now? I thought about doing this job but I'm not so sure after watching these videos
@@Colegatez i did it 3 weeks really not worth it the weird times calling to get your time to go in climbing up and down a ladder all day for the birds
I drive for a small plant, only 5 or 6 drivers, there's the one driver who comes in last and somehow always gets done first.
LOL--- Man, you really called it; Curb jobs with a manual is a WORKOUT. Even though you're in granny gear it's still to fast for the curb machine. I'd get requested because I happened to be pretty good at it (not bragging. you GET good when you do it long enough!), so it was like nice for my bosses to hear contractors request me, but no mixer driver I've ever known "likes" a curb job.
We'd like to have PUMP jobs all day! Paradise: 3pm and you get a nice pump job...or a wheelbarrow job; 10 yards, and 3 guy wheelbarrow brigade...probably be your last of the day...or not.
Another job I think most of us dreaded was the Basement pour where the guys have a chute (or what they call a chute) sticking out of this little window. These sometimes took so long that the mud would start setting up. You told the contractor, "Hey, it doesn't matter how much more water we put in, it's been in there too long. We gotta get this off." Man, it would take forever to get those clumps down from the top of the chute and the sides.
A good driver knows when he's come upon a crew that is not working well together. I would jump down out of my truck and say, "Who has the fuzzy nuts on this job? Cause you two are both giving me different signals, Ok?"
That's all it took. One guy would take over and we'd get along famously after. Ahh, sorry for going on so long...I guess I just miss it.
I'm retired now. But some days I'm driving, doing an errand for my wife or whatever and there's a mixer or a dump truck with a load of asphalt (which I used to haul in Florida early '90's), I'll follow along, especially the asphalt, that SMELL...reminds me of those 12 hour days hauling that 300+ degree asphalt in that blistering Southwest Florida sun in old R model Macks with no a/c...and it was a BLAST!
Enjoy it, my friend...lap it up. Take Good Care!!
I do this for a living, why in the hell am I watching this?
lol
I'm watching because I just got hired by a rear discharge company. I have 3 years running a front discharge. Trying to get an idea what to expect from rear discharge.
Same, but i do this in Europe so it's a bit different there. Live seeing how to Americans do it
😂
Always annoying when guys are washing out and then you get back to the yard and they send you on another job …. It’s like why couldn’t you send one of the guys that are already in the yard 😂
Seems like sometimes the guys who always do their job without ever complaining tend to get screwed over
Find a better job! This one will always take advantage of you and cheat the you of your life. You can do better.
should we learn how to code?
I'd like to see YOU do this job. That would be interesting to watch
There’s wose jobs with less pay , that’s the military 😂😂😂 . I wouldn’t complain doing this, if it means my fam is fed!!
@@vaekkriinhart4347 Hay asshole. I did this job for 16 years. I trained plenty of fools that wanted to do it. I ran a conveyor truck for 8 years.
@@devildogentertainment4904 I preferred going on deployments to driving a mixer and volunteered for deployments whenever I had the opportunity.
I once had a job where I had to be an hour and a half away from home by 6 am. I had to be up by 3:30 am. I lasted a month. I fell asleep on the thruway and was awaken by the rumble strip. Never again.
Did it back in 1992 thur 97 back then we had old mixers no A/C plus standards trucks we would go in at mid night 12:00am get off around 7 or 8 pm no safety hate it found another job , y'all got High Tech mixers
THOSE LONG DAYS SUCK BUT GOOD DOUGH
Typical driver, crying about OT
Oh man. I wish I only ran 4 loads a day. We normally have 4 loads done by 10am. I think I average 9 or 10 daily. We are way understaffed and over booked.. it kind of sucks.
Which company you work for? Are they hiring?
No you don't. Quit lying
don't know when your day starts or ends until about the end of the day or when the next days schedule comes out ,operating a mixer is more than a job its a lifestyle . basically you are no more than a truck part if you don't perform as expected you WILL be replaced like a head light . be safe out there everyone !
Last time a customer tryed to add another load when the batch plant was shut off he made alot of calls until manager called and asked me put the truck under i was ready to clock out so i took it so wet it looked like pump wash customer didnt reject it because it would of been over an hour to go back and forth and he really needed the load. This is a guy that pulled this crap all the time since then never again has he done that
LOL that's the worst. One time I was clocked out and in my car when the batcher called me for a late load. I don't answer my phone if I'm clocked out any more hahaha
@@grabbinggears109 i do the same i dont answer but that day the loader guy was the other guy there and they told him how to turn the the plant on and load me thru the phone so i took it wet 😂
when jobsites are hard to get to because of dispatch not updating the location have them drop you a pin
Hate it when dispatch does that, or at the last minute tell you to go to another plant lol
When I see "head to collinsville plant" I lose my fkng mind! then have to talk myself down
I was 35 minutes East from my home plant this week and they told me to drive all the way back 35 west and then after I got there I fueled up and then they told me to drive all the way 35 minutes back to the plant that was right next to the job I just drove from 🤦♂️
@@vaekkriinhart4347 same way I feel when I hear head to The Plant 3
Few things pushed my buttons more as a mixer driver than showing up to a job with a freshly cleaned truck and having someone put their muddy hands all over my chutes or fendors.
One day I stopped pouring and made a whole crew wait on me while I washed my fendor off after someone put their muddy mag on it.
Bruh, I don't throw mud at your f-250, don't get my stuff dirty when you don't have to.
Tough one great driver
You're lucky that crew is letting you pour a curb machine at a 2. Ive had to deal with a curb machine crew who pours at a 0. Leave the drum on full discharge, and it still takes an hour for 10 yards...my clutch foot is numb by the end of the pour.
24:37 HOW the fk did u run out of water??!!
wtf dude HOW?!
If your pouring at a new construction and there's no water...some contractors will use up all your water
@@Hayabusa-ll7fo u have to cut them off at some point. And it's not a bad idea to always fill ur water water tank back up before u leave the lot... I've come very close to running out of water couple times, but I had to tell them to stop using my water till I was done cleaning my shoots..
Tell them to bring the water truck before you run out at least leave enough to wash out
yeah, that's my #1 complaint about this job: U never know what time u will get off.. and never know what time u will start! fuck!... But other than that, it's a pretty good job
Driving a mixer is a great career! I was making 75,000 a year way back in 1991. That's not counting the extra 500 to 1000 a week I was saleing in leftover! In 2001 I was making 27.50 hrs plus 500 -1000 a week in leftover! I lived & partied like a Rockstar!! Mixer drivers has to rely on illegal drugs just to survive the 90 to 100 hours a week we were required to work! The drivers that didn't indulge in illegal substances didn't make it!!
Lmfao
Selling leftovers?
How did I work 90-100 hours a week without illegal drugs for decades. Maybe because I wasn't looking for a lame excuse for illegal drug use.
@tomhomer891 We had a mechanic who we'd go to in his little shop and get a gram of quality blow on those 3am mornings where we'd have to pour a bowling alley, then at 6am the "regular day" would start. A blast up each nostril from the bullet, NO PROBLEM!!
Some liked Coffee, Some liked Cocaine...their both drugs. I'm retired now. I don't think I'd like the automatic trucks, though.
I mean, pouring is the real job, but I liked my old R model Mack when I first started way back...and later my Oshkosh 10 speed...that truck would pull out of quicksand! I ended my career with an 8 speed Mack. It was just fun, you had a connection with your truck when you could feel the interaction, you knew by the sound when it was time to shift, up or down. But I'm old...you Young Cowboys take it from here...Take care, drivers!
What is saleing leftovers
Whats up with all those drop down axles on those mixers. Here in Florida our mixer only have 1 drop down.plus do fuys even have air down system like a tire a boss
30 on a mixer in north jersey. The co. I worked for, You sell concrete you look for a new Job. Is 50 bucks worth it 😢
What exactly is the curb thingy lol. I have not had the joys to do such job as of yet.....
The curb machine makes curbs they use a dry slump 2-3 inch. Better to show up dry. They get grumpy if it's barely over the ordered slump.
U pour into a "thingy" like u would for a pump job, but u have to keep moving forward a few inches at a time as u continually discharge slowly. It's a pain in the ass if u have manual transmission because its clutch, brake, clutch brake,clutch brake constantly. It gets tiring on ur legs after 20 min of that bullshit. If the dispatcher had any brains or heart, he would put only trucks with automatic transmissions on these stupid curb jobs!
Switching from foodservice delivery (sysco) same money less work...I wish they had automatics. Your videos are fun to watch
is this a good career within trucking, to get into for the next 30 years? im out of ontario canada.thnx
Oh i dont miss concrete “schedules” lol
"Schedules" hahaha...
Lots of water, what if you have to pee often? It doesn't look like you can, unless it's in a bottle in the truck?🥴
Port a johns become a sight of beauty
Are those headphones or something else?
How can you tell how much concrete is left in your drum after a pour when you have left overs
Most drivers can eye ball it by looking in the drum and give a rough estimate from experience and also for certain drums on the mixers when the concrete gets down to about 2-2.5 yards you will start to hear rattling. If you want to know exactly how much is left just return to the yard to get your new weight on the scale then subtract your empty unloaded weight from your new weight and divide it by 4000.
Yeah man, it's a guessing game. I get a good look when I get BATCHED with one or two yards, then later I can sort of compare my left-overs (retain) and guess.
Haha, I'm new to the industry. After you've done a few loads and you're a person that pays attention it's pretty easy to tell... for me it's the rocks towards the front of the drum lol kinda hard to miss
u guess. U look at what u poured and u look at how much u were loaded with. U guess. It aint rocket science, and besides, who cares?!
You pat the drum for the hollow sound
You are being forced to break federal hours regulations if you work more than 14 hrs and or if you do not take a 10 hour reset.
In Pittsburgh Pa. We often never left the plant for 3 days at a time! Nobody was paying attention to DOT laws! If we did we would have never got anything done! The drivers that worked for the companies that I did were all snorting cocaine just to make it through our 90 to 100 hour a week schedules!! If you didn't you couldn't make it!
@@tomhomer891 I had a coworker explain how his life was destroyed by meth as a mixer driver. I’ve been helping these people learn the rules.
They are under different rules,
I believe its 16 hours for mixer drivers
Because the concrete has 90 minutes to come out they can bend the rules
Any new videos coming?
Guy wines about making money lol ok
Nothing wrong with making money but also wishing to enjoy yourself too and having a life outside of your job. Your job should not be your whole lifestyle.
I do 4 sometimes 5
Hi bro..., for driving mixer truck... Just need CDL-A or B?
B
B tanker endorsement as well
I’ve just been hired how many hours can you average in a day? And how much can you make a week?
why dont u ask ur fellow co- workers!?
@@vaekkriinhart4347you’ve never had coworkers that were super close with the bosses and mangers and would snitch on you for asking too many questions?
What is the name of gps do u use?
Google maps all the way!! It's about 75% accurate... unless it's new construction, then it's worthless hahaha
lol
yeah, ur makin sure not to use them lol
Nobody workers 90hrs stop
Bet
Then you’ve never been in the mixer industry 😉it’s relentless 👍
And then 20 hours during the winter if we're lucky lol
You have Instagram ? Good channel 👍
Nah, I can barely figure out UA-cam hahaha