Tankers and scales?

This thread is about shipper scales, not dot scales....

What do they think you're going to do to the jetfuel?

I have not had a load yet that was rejected. Most of them, they just open the internal, close it to trap some product between the internal and external, and then crack the external and pour it in a jar for a sample. The worst one was one where i pulled the sample and the sample bottle was very tiny and i dripped some because i dont have such a steady hand sometimes. I had one where i had to go on the trailer with a dipper to take the sample from the dome lid, but they had a catwalk setup so i didnt have to use our ladder. Easy.

They just dont want contamination in their tanks. They pull a sample at the shipper and consignee.

We're all food grade, so we never suit up. Some customers demand we wear hardhats, goggles, long sleeve shirts, and steel toed boots. It's mostly just concentrated dish soap. Most places i unload with my boots, leather gloves, and nothing else...just like a gas hauler.

I do have a duffle bag with full PPE in it, including a respirator. But that's QC corporate policy that i have to have it.

You know what i thought was funny though, is QC corporate ppe policy says you have to wear a "rainsuit" for unloading flammables. wtf? Why?

And usually its sealed but no one checks it. heh.

One of our worst ones is unilever in jefferson city, they do a microbe test on the load and that takes 3 days. So i got paid $300 to bobtail down there from gary, and come back with an empty trailer. Took a little over a day. They make shampoo down there and i guess they had a contamination problem a while back and are trying to find out who did it.

Then there was stepan, who was on strike, that was a pain but it was just an issue of detention time...not rejected loads or anything.


As for washouts, im still local for training. All i do is bring the empty back to the yard and leave a copy of the proof of delivery on a clipboard at the tankwash. When we get a load they give us a trailer number thats already been washed out. I know it wont be quite that simple on the road.

Then theres dedicated trailers that never get washed, just top loaded all the time. Mostly for cocamidopryl betaine, which is the stuff that makes soap soapy. Can you imagine how hard that is to wash off? LOL...


i'd love to be a gas hauler but no one around here hires people whove never yanked tanks.

 

What do brake adjustments have to do with this? If the brakes arent set the adjustment has nothing to do with anything?

Generally there isnt enough getting on you to even need rubber gloves.

 

I know thats the way its done, but it still sounds odd. If i was going to mess with something on a jet, it sure wouldnt be the fuel..

lol, ok.

I am hardly a rookie, rookie.

A BALANCE BEAM? Where?!