Chevy, Ford... going into electric trucks.

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

JRscooby wrote:

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:


I've consulted with heavy energy user cement manufacturer whose manufacturing costs is 1/3 energy. Done true cost of burning coal and now company is into wind with initially two turbines on site and tapping the wind farm within the vicinity for energy requirements.

A cement plant in my home town sold out to a foreign company. (also the quarry that was working the same ground. That hurt me, because the foreign company decided to enforce some of the state weight laws, but not all of them.)
They upgraded the plant to produce a lot more cement, but use less coal and metered natural gas. Ran a 8 inch pipe under the state highway to carry the methane collected from the sanitary landfill, use as a fuel source. Semi trailers of paper not clean enough to recycle, unloaded to feed the burner. For about 6 weeks I hauled 25 tons a day of shredded tires in to feed the burner Igloo makes a bunch of defective coolers? Feed the burner.

Sorry, but why did it hurt you when you're making money off them with the hauls?

A concrete co had a portable plant set up about a half mile past the line where the weight limit drops. If I run the back road I was legal packing 45 tons up to that line, and could see from there to the gate. If the weight watcher was close to that last half mile, turn into the truck stop, and wait. No real stress for me to put over 1000 tons a week in there. Ownership changes, outside the zone nobody can gross over 80,000. So I drop the short tri-axle, pick up the longer trailer that I am legal at 80, can cross the scale with 24, but takes as long to dump as the big load. Run BTW all week, and maybe haul 700 tons. Now I don't mind competing, if we all under the same rules, but they would let the tri-axle straight trucks leave grossing 80, and at 80, they where 11 to 12 tons over depending on how long they where.