My new Apple app for gauging tanks hits the App Store today

The company I work for hauls crude but we don't do e-ticketing. I got tired of having to pull out gravity charts to calculate how much oil I could haul legally. I REALLY got sick of calculating my top and bottom gauges for the various size tanks I pull from, so I developed an app to do these things for me. It just hit the Apple App Store today and it's free.

I designed this app for a crude hauler but a water hauler could use part of it. I guess a pumper might find it useful. Anyway, I'm looking for feedback so if you download it and try it, give me your opinion please.

The app is called Tank Gauge. You can go to the link below and see some screen shots and read about it. Then if it looks like something you might use, click on the link at the bottom of the website which will take you directly to the app in the App Store. Take it for a test drive and give me some feedback and also if you can think of any features I could add to the app to make it more useful, that is the kind of information I'm looking for.


Thanks!


http://tankgaugeapp.com

 

Yes, each one of our drivers is about to get an Android tablet so having it on that platform makes more sense. But I went through Apple first and figured I could make it better and release it on Android at a later time. That's why I'm asking if there are any other features I cold add.

I realize these calculations are easy for some, but I used the app last night to check all the tickets at my LACT and I caught 2 mistakes. So obviously some do not know how to use the calculator on their phone.

 

I have been told by drivers where I work to use 123 plus gravity, the OK DOT said to use 125 plus, you say 130 plus. Some here have 80K pound limits and some are running with 85K permits. Then there is a difference in trucks. We run sleepers and day cabs with an extra axle. The day cabs weigh almost 1300 pounds more than the sleepers. What's 1300 pounds?... that is an extra 4-5 barrels I can carry to the LACT.

If you are paid by the hour all these variables make no difference to you, but if you are paid by the barrel, like me, then you want to load all you can legally carry otherwise you are leaving money at the well.

Example: you say 130 plus gravity. I go to a 50 gravity well +130= 180 barrels. I can haul 48,000 pounds so according to my app, I can only haul 176 so you have me approximately 1092 pounds overweight.

Next week I get the 85K pound permit. Now I can load 194 barrels and not be over, but with your 130+50 gravity you have me at 180 barrels so I left 14 barrels of my money at the well.

So that is why I created the app. The pounds per barrel are an exact science and while I understand the concept of what happens at the office, there is no reason to use some arbitrary number like 130+ gravity when we haul barrels which weigh 316 pounds per barrel down to 249 pounds per barrel.