Tank or not, that is the question....

You looking to commute to Indy daily, or looking for more of a regional take truck home type of thing?

 

Neier Inc., Heritage Environmental, Liquid Transport...stay away from R&D.

 

Check out ADM In Decatur, IL. They have a terminal up in Indy. You would be gone a couple nights a week. When I lived outside Decatur, I would leave Monday morning and be home Wednesday afternoon. Leave out Thursday morning and be home Saturday morning. Usually ran 3000-3200 miles a week and was grossing 72K. Insurance was like $35 a week for family and it covered almost everything.

 

You will like hauling tankers! Customers are usually very cool and nice. You go to some really interesting places and it's nice not being 13'6" for a change lol. You get paid more for what you do as well. Most companies pay you for every stop, none of this get one or 2 stops for free bs.
I would advise not working for a carrier that offers split pay. By that I mean something like .".45 loaded, .35 empty.
That drops your overall cpm pretty far and I think it's the sign of a low class carrier. An empty tank is still dangerous, especially if you still have residual hazardous product in it.

Depending on what you haul, I like chemicals, you have to be very methodical. You have a crap-ton of experience and have done just about everything, so this shouldn't be an issue.
But it's very easy to make a simple mistake that has catstrophic consequences when you haul chemicals.

The unloading is fairly easy, depending on the product and your actual unloading station. I've had 5 hour unloads because of some engineer thought putting 32 90° elbows in 500 feet of pipe and reducing it from a 2 inch line down to an inch, was a good idea lol.
Some guys on here talk about polymers, sucrose, and chocolate being difficult.

Its always different. Its usally always interesting, and it pays well and it's not back breaking. You will have to climb up on top of the tank from time to time, but I'm sure you don't have any height issues, having tarped before.

Most of my experience is turnpike doubles or doubles and triples. I only recently got into tanker and I wish that I had done it sooner. I left it for childish reasons, but I'm on my way back. I would have grossed 85k my first year and have been home for a reset and once or twice during the week.


Tankers kick butt and I believe you'll enjoy hauling for a good carrier, especially if you get on with an out and back one, instead of system.

 

Another good thing about ADM is 99.9% of everything is out loaded and back empty, and around .45-47 cpm all miles and practical miles.