Good tanker outfit in houston, tx

Companies that take hi rise Aero,%pay,150 mile radius?

 

miller does that along with dana and superior. though the highrise will limit where you can go. I have one customer I pick up at on a regular basis that anything over 12 foot will not get into plant my truck is 11 ft 6 in currently and the one im in process of acquiring is about 10 feet in height cept for stacks which are 11.6

 

Well I've always been HHG driver so I've never owned anything but a hi rise,dbl condo....however I've taken a beating from the darn trees over the years through some of these subdivisions and apt complexes..ugh I've had to buy plenty of new stacks bc of it too.. (Hardheaded I guess) lol

 

You aren't pulling a van anymore. With a tank, flat bed what ever like that that is low you will feel a burble behind your sleeper.. Where the wind is being sucked into the back of the sleeper. So a high rise is useless and even costing you. Also even with high stacks anything over about 11-6 is going to cut back on where you can load or unload.

 

I hear ya,but I am actually STILL pulling a van type trailer,just not HHG anymore.i was just "inquiring" as to the specs for pulling a tank. I guess I'm outta luck bc it's what I have,and no intentions of getting rid of her just yet... I see several that do have hi rises that pull tanks,but like you said I'm sure the m.pg. are really bad.

 

I started back in 1977 as a part time job. I was still in the Navy and every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I was driving a truck throughout 7 southern states. I did it because I loved it. The pay was just an extra bonus. I kept driving whenever I could and then I retired from the Navy and then had to find a job. I was actually a heavy construction equipment operator but I found I could make more money driving than construction. I still loved the job and of course I was looking to increase my pay whenever I could, I had a family. Now retired I miss it and would probably drive for free for at least 50 miles then back to the good life of retirement.

 

When were you a Seabee?

 

1982 to 1990. Most of my time was with NMCB 4.

 

Did you go down to Mc murdo? This guy I met down there as a civilian had been there as a Seabee. I think they all left in about 1987.

 

No, they were pretty much shutting the south pole down and turning it all over to civilians. I did however have a friend that was the one that was operating a dozer when it fell down a huge crack in the ICE. They all told the bosses that the ice was to thin for that time of year to allow trains to travel but of course they did not listen. He broke his back and has had a lot of problems since. He was a mechanic and not a equipment operator but they were short on operators. Sorry group for the off shoot.