Prospect Transportation / Alternative fuels transportation

Well, they pay per the ton on the load I think. That's how I got it at island.
The bad news is they aren't taking on any owners due to the FedEx lawsuit that revolves around taxes and irs. So that's that. For now, they aren't leasing.

 

Not now. Island transport does take owner operators. Call their jersey terminal in port reading. It's right off the Outerbridge. In the summer you will haul liquid asphalt. In the winter it's diesel, and heating oil. But when I ran for them from 03/04 to 08ish we didn't do much in the winter. That could have changed. They do sell diesel at a cheap price at their terminal which helps. I ran a t2000 with them and I only used the sleeper when we did Ohio runs. That only happened once and I think that was it. Otherwise the sleeper is good if you worked a really long day and don't want to go home. A daycab is good or a truck with a 30-40 inch sleeper. They pay per load and weight of it. It was a good gig.

 

You can just branch out. I too sold my rig and am doing non trucking but am looking into hauling cars with a wedge. You can go to other companies too. Island is local work, then there is regional work if you want. Horo trucking is local I think. They pull flatbeds and vans. I am not too sure of them because I haven't worked there but remember that it's a local company. Hauling shop rite trailers is also good. I almost did that during the slow season but the dispatcher couldn't assign a load properly. The thing is, I think it's night work. Just take note of trucks pulling daycabs next time you are out. I can give you two more local companies, but they changed drastically and I don't know what they are like now. It does also depend on where you live.

 

Do they use pumps for offloading or is everything gravity?

 

Things change a lot in two years. I don't know if you saw the date but I'm sure they are somewhere else. I can give you a little insight on gasoline delivery in NJ, a little. My gasoline experience is from out west but you notice a few things when you see a truck. Most of them use gravity to unload. You'll see maybe one or two trucks with a pump but those trucks are used to pump out not to unload. It only makes sense to use gravity because that pump weighs such and such so you'll need to cut down the product. It maybe just a few gallons but you'd be surprised at the end of the year how much you saved. In the gasoline business the companies load right up to the max allowable for weight so they can make as much money as they can.

The tankers back east are semi's. Why I'll never know. So you can have a semi that can load around 9000 gallons but that would be a very light truck. Those trucks are harder to get into places than the west coast truck and trailers. That is a truck with a tank mounted to the frame of the truck and then a trailer. That type of truck has no fifth wheel but pivots in 2 places. And both places are near the center of the truck. That allows those trucks to go places where a semi will not go. With the two pivot places the trailer tracks closer to the truck over a fifth wheel.

Certain states out west allow trucks to be over sized. I was in Nevada and that was one of the states that allowed oversize trucks. Our trucks carried 12,450 gallons each load and we made one delivery with that load. We would do anywhere from 5 to 6 loads a day. Our company was very busy and we were rated number one in town. I've had loads that went to the same station in one shift. Our shifts were 10 hours and anything over was OT. We worked 4 10 hour days with the same three days off. Of course that's all changed now.

It's a little different on the coast but the same in a lot of areas. You can go to Mark Wayman western tankers, truck collection page 1 & 2 to get an idea w3hat the trucks are like.

 

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