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Home heating oil delivery.. What do you think?

Discussion in 'Tanker, Bulk and Dump Trucking Forum' started by BostonTanker, Oct 19, 2016.

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  1. Oct 19, 2016 #1
    BostonTanker

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    So I finished day 2 of training at local home heating oil company.
    Honestly so far I like it.
    Very demanding. Very detail oriented.
    I picked it up about an hr after training started yesterday. Successfully made 50 deliveries already with trainer observing.
    Gotta wait for twic card to go on the rack.
    Very tough work but I'll be close to 70k a year and home every night. One day off during winter, full weekends off in summer.
    Oh. Im running twin screw bobtail tankers. No combination.
    Did my perseverance at Werner waiting for the right position pay off?
    Are there any other home heating oil drivers out there?
    Feel free to comment!
     
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  3. Oct 19, 2016 #2
    austinmike

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    70k sounds good to me - good luck!
     
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  4. Oct 19, 2016 #3
    Blackshack46

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    Is that a semi or straight truck making 70k? If the latter, you scored the best gig around.

    Good luck in your future!

    I should read the post fully before commenting. Ha
     
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  5. Oct 19, 2016 #4
    BostonTanker

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    Straight truck.
    70k is factoring in ot.
    If I only work 40 hrs a week year round, it'll be 55k.
    But Im in the north. I've already cranked out 24 hrs in 2 days Lol
     
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  7. Oct 19, 2016 #5
    mitrucker

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    Curious to hear how you will enjoy dragging that hose thru a foot of snow when it's zero out all day. Enjoy.
     
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  8. Oct 19, 2016 #6
    BostonTanker

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    I dragged 2& 3" food grade hose through restaurants and alleys in January/ February 2015 when we had 110" of snow in 3 weeks. Up to 250 ft of it.
    Oil doesn't freeze. Vegetable oil does.
    Operated a vacuum tanker for 14 months recovering fry oil.
    Plus, I was a wrecker driver for 10 years. When everyone was ordered off the roads... Out into the weather I went for up to 55 hrs in under state of emergency rules with multiple law enforcement and government agencies.
    Plus throwing freight at dollar stores in winter last year.
    I will enjoy it because I love tank work.
    I will enjoy it because my job has a real purpose.
    I will enjoy it because Im home. In my bed. With my fiancé who is once again in a better state of mind now that Im home.
    Plus, I've FINALLY achieved what I consider financial freedom. I can pay down all the bills in about 1 check now.
    Leaving me to enjoy life's treasures a little bit more. Like... An extra pint of ice cream every week Lol.
     
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  9. Oct 19, 2016 #7
    x1Heavy

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    Hm. In my time we had a coal truck unload into the bunker through the basement window of the 1922 house that I was raised in. Then we went to oil. The oil truck has to drag a hose all the way to the 400 gallon tank under the kitchen out of a alley. He did a good job. But that hose was heavy.

    The 1993 storm dumped 40 plus foot drifts by the time the winds quit in Maryland. Entire two story houses were buried as ours were. We had about 200 gallons of 350 on hand plus a fireplace to supplement using colonial williamsburg technology dating to 1760 so it worked out well. I think there were a few folks crying for oil and they would get it too, if it took a front end loader, a string of dumptrucks to move that oil truck through to reach it.

    70K for that work is not too shabby. Very nice.

    I guess all that is left is snarling vicious war dogs ready to take your jeans and jacket....
     
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  10. Oct 19, 2016 #8
    BostonTanker

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    Thanks.
    Im sure it'll be a rough winter. But I fear no snow, nor cold.
    But I fear someone needing that oil.
    We all know that someone who is a will call and procrastinates.
    Lol.
    And they ALWAYS need help right at the worst time ever.
    I've always been the guy that saves the day lol
     
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  11. Oct 19, 2016 #9
    Big Don

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    OF COURSE I NEED IT TODAY! If I needed it next week, I'd call you next week!

    Don't have any personal experience with this type of delivery, but I can imagine it will have it's share of problems, just like any other job.
    I can tell you that I know of a small propane outfit, that is driving tankers from the mid sixties. And the drivers are often worked literally to death, any HOS be dammed.
    Of course, this is here in SW Utah, where businesses routinely thumb their noses at all kinds of laws and regulations.....
     
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  12. Oct 19, 2016 #10
    KillingTime

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    You will be the champion of old, enfeeble ladies all across Boston, Tanker! Bring them something nice beyond #2 oil.
    Carry a shovel in the event you have to dig to the inlet. Or big boots.
     
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