Linden bulk, liquid cargo or quality carriers

I’ve been told that latex is really hard to clean, a lot of customers do not like loading after latex, regardless of how well the tank wash cleans your trailer

 

That’s big % for latex loads to avoid it.

 

Latex cause huge issues. Especially when a tank wash screws the tank up while cleaning. I’ve had to dead head from east St. Louis and Detroit due to left over/fried latex in the tank stuck all over the inside and everything. Not gunna have a cross contamination on my hands. Bare metal clean is bare metal clean, and latex really screws that up. Especially if the last driver doesn’t say anything. Stuffs nasty.

 

So out of a week how much latex loads do you guys usually pull ?

 

@Ruckie what would you say is your cpm for all miles?

 

I got to look if they have anything here in Michigan

 

At Matlack we had a ex driver who traveled around filtering out loads. I helped him filter the skins out of a load of formic acid that Atlanta loaded after latex.

Natural latex we used to tell the driver to stop and throw in a couple bottles of ammonia and button down the lid and head for the tank wash. doesn't work with synthetics.

Water treatment compound [aka elephant snot] was another nightmare until a driver watched a loader use mineral spirits to cut it...shipped out barrels and barrels of speedy dry and snot waste for years before we learned to spritz it with mineral spirits before washing...

 

I took a load to LA. Corrosion inhibitor for gasoline. Stuff was real thick. 7 gallons of disel and steam it/recycle it.