How many rigs do you put on the job?

[Alan]

I'm trying to do a little research and could use some help. This poll covers only your own rigs. I'm putting up another one for subcontractors machines that you use.

[Pickering Snow]

Alan

good poll i run 8 and to be honest iam looking at ways to reduce that number and still hold the number of contracts we have big advantages iam trying to work at is blade setups adding the erie truck with the blizzard iam hoping to cover more ground and poss take a truck out and also the mvp on the service truck shaved time this past season so i can only see it going in the direction i hope for june i will take delivery of a m9000 kubota which will become hopefully the end to about two trucks , i will be honest with everyone here it is expensive running a fleet of even 8 so my whole goal is to do more with less, insur and fuel this next year are gonna be higher and at app 1800.00 a year for commerical truck insur somethings gotta change trying to keep my company in the black lol.

Has we discussed in erie i have had very little luck with good subs and try to avoid using them i do sub loader work however with the addtion of the kubota iam hoping to put a end to that has well

[szorno]

I have 2 trucks of my own on the road this year. I have 2 spray trucks that also have plows that work for backup.

[jakegypsum]

Alan,

I normally run two trucks for primary use and a third for heavy snowfall and/or backup. Most of my work is commercial.

Jake

[cat320]

Fred that m9000 seams like a good size machine how are you gonna outfit her? and what does a machine like that cost ?

[Pickering Snow]

Cat320

the cost for the machine with 2500lb loader was just about 65k i did add a few extras for comfort i orginally looked at and drove a l3430 and the guy got me steered more towardsthe turbo diesel at 90hp i dont feel like ill end up with something to small the shuttle shift tranny was another selling point i ordered a snow pusher 10foot box and plan on talking two unimounts and cutting them up and building a big pusher blade i ordered a quick connect skidsteer plate to to use with the plow blades, i love the cab on this tractor has well all glass feels like your in a fish bowl great vision like i said earlyer hopfu;;y will be my poor mans answer to a loader

[JD PLOWER]

We have 4 trucks and one bobcat. 3 of them are pickups and one is a dump.