tanker wages discussion

If we get a load cancelled with less than 24 hours notice the customer gets charged a load cancellation fee . It helps but only pays for 1 day and dispatch usually has loads booked 2 or 3 days in advance .

 

Oh yeah? Our's mainly get canceled if there's trouble with a frac job or trouble at a disposal company that we cant get rid of the flowback or drill mud they want us to haul. We don't ever want to get stuck with a load in the tank and nowhere to take it that day, especially in the winter time.

 

well, some companies use torches but a local fella died that way because he had some drip gas in his load. We have heat tape and insulation around some of our valves and some trucks have anti-freeze run through their valves. If one of our trucks does freeze up we just take it back to the shop, put it inside and put a big turbo heater facing it.

 

I've had 2 cancel delivery when I had the load . One was going from Hopewell , VA to Calvert City , KY and I got a call to take it back to the shipper just as I crossed into WV . The other was going from Carrollton , KY to East Brunswick , NJ and I got the call in Snowshoe , PA to turn around and return it to the shipper . Both paid very well on the return trip . On the one in Hopewell they paid me to deadhead the empty trailer back to Calvert City .

 

seem's like they would have you drop it in auburn.

 

No sir I don't really have any complaints with the tanker job. In just over 38 years trucking the tanker job has been the most satisfying and I like the money. I wouldn't go back to stretching tarps or lumping lettuce for anything.

If you're going tanker try to get with some company like Highway Transport or Groendyke so you get paid for your work and have benefits.