This may be a touchy subject but here in the NW there is no such thing?  The concrete suppliers have known for some time that if they plan on having pumps, they better plan on pumping all of their pumped jobs. I know this is not the case elsewhere but it should be. If concrete suppliers did'nt have pumps that would put alot more jobs on the books. Should they mind their own business???

I think that more ready mix companies will buy pumps. It is a perfect fit.

Every redi-mix comany should have a pump of some sort for lots of reasons. But a yard full of mixer drivers that think they can run a pump is a very dangerous situation!

We owns pumps and pumpmixers but no mixers . But in USA we owns mixers and no pumps ! TCG (Thomas Concrete Group) is the name of the company in USA .

But as an pumpoperator it is a dream to work for a ready-mix company , 99% good mud and the last 1% they will fix it when I call the mixingplant !

Now I sitt in the schoolbench to learn more about concrete , mixdesign and lots of other stuff , this week has been very hard ! And I have 1 more week to go an 2 big test to do !

It should be the same way here Vasa. Anyone with a license can drive a mixer here. With no knowledge of concrete what so ever. All you need to know is steering wheel, gear shift and sometimes brakes! 

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Glacier NW has 8 or 9 pumps in SW Wa.

There's a company east of the mountains thats got a couple pumps also. I'm surprized Glacier has'nt tried sending a few this way. Where at exactly? It must be pretty far from Seattle.

There is a company here that does it and about the only thing they have accomplished is to trash the market and guess who they call when they are in trouble

I work for a concrete company that has two pumps we pump our own concrete and no one else. We keep our price the same as everyone else. But the good thing is that we have concrete that will pump at 1 1/2 to 2 inch slump because we keep on the boss about it.

hi i never have repilied to the site but i browse often. i also work for a r/m company in southern mn we have 3 pumps i run on of them when not busy pumping i can haul ready mix its also nice for mix designs ya normally always get a pump mix and also scheduleing is vary easy you have the pump you have the mud easy as that no worrys about waiting for a balence  if your short concrete

I started my pumping career at a ready mix company who had pumps. we had nine from putz, concord, thomsen and a mayco line pump. this company sold out the pumping division to BBCP about 4 years ago. A thing to remember is a lot of Ready mix companys realy just sell rock. Concrete and Asphalt is just a pretty package to sell rocks. Companys like this have a lot of money invested in mines,rock chrushers and heavy equipmet to operate them, RM and Asphalt plants,and Land with massive rock holdings. One reason they sold the pumps was RETURN ON INVESTMENT.  They could buy 3 or 4  mixers and make x amount of money compared to 1 or 2 pumps and make x amount which they said is less. Basicly they are great a selling ROCKS and not always so good at managing pumps. 

I started my pumping career at a ready mix company who had pumps. we had nine from putz, concord, thomsen and a mayco line pump. this company sold out the pumping division to BBCP about 4 years ago. A thing to remember is a lot of Ready mix companys realy just sell rock. Concrete and Asphalt is just a pretty package to sell rocks. Companys like this have a lot of money invested in mines,rock chrushers and heavy equipmet to operate them, RM and Asphalt plants,and Land with massive rock holdings. One reason they sold the pumps was RETURN ON INVESTMENT.  They could buy 3 or 4  mixers and make x amount of money compared to 1 or 2 pumps and make x amount which they said is less. Basicly they are great at selling ROCKS and not always so good at managing pumps. 

I started with a ready mix company in 1993. In 1995 or '96 they bought 2 schwing trailer pumps. sometime in the 10.5 years that I worked for this company I started running these pumps, The company purchased 2 more, another Schwing trailer mount and then a Reed truck mount which happened to be one of its kind ( fortunately only minor repairable problems ) I eventually trained many people to operate these pumps. After I left this ready mix company they decided to sell the pumps due to many reasons, not because I left, however, there was no one else who could or would run these pumps. I still see the Reed running around but not the trailer pumps. I learned alot by operating these pumps, one major part is safety when in a situation.

You can't sell 2000-3000 yds of concrete per day and put it on the ground without concrete pumps. 

If the redi-mix companies approached pumping as a way to get their redi-mix trucks back to the plant to sell another load quicker, they could dominate. 

"one call does it all"... 

It never ceases to amaze me how different things can be in every single town. It sounds like we've got a pretty unique situation in these parts?

Hey Raymond, If Glacier has pumps up here then they must be ran by 302 operators? this is interesting since most of our brothers up here are union "laborers" sadly. 

There are 6 or 7 Glacier plants here in the Portland/Vancouver area.  1 of which is union (teamsters)

The plant in Vancouver the pumps run out of is non-union.  The largest pump they have is a 40m Z.  It's all shack work. (residential)

They kinda do their thing and we kinda do ours.

The company that I work for have 3 concrete pumps ( 2 steady and one for back-up ), 9 mix on site trucks and 3 stone slingers. Not to mention the gravel trucks and trailers and the construction equipment as well. We bought the first pump 4 years ago when the housing market took off and wall crews that we supplied crete for complained about not being able to get a pump for the job. So they went out and bought one and have moved forward ever since.