I love fuel hauling

I wish you the best of luck. I haul the finished product to Walmart’s not in a tanker. I still think about hauling fuel in the back of my mind.

 

Oh, sort of like those drivers for Dean's Foods that haul the various jugs out of Creamland Albuquerque, or Gandy's Lubbock? I almost got on with them a few months ago. But the "split days off" thing kind of killed that for me.

 

I still don't know what everyone's aversion to nights is. Day shift would be a nightmare to me. Too many prying eyes, lots of traffic, and while I am a talkative person, I tend to naturally creep alot of people out.

 

I work nights now and love it so nights is not a problem for me.

 

Yes exactly like them. I deliver For Cloverland. We make great value milk in our area for the Walmart’s. So I back up to a dock and unload with an electric pallet jack. Yes the schedule is pretty bad. It’s every other day so technically u are in your work uniform 7 days a week and no back to back days off.

 

Any chance you're pulling for ARCO?

 

REO6205 you're right except for 1 thing. You're wrong about "when in doubt double check". You should double check all moves and make it a practice to do it every time. Other than that you're right about being professional. I retired from ARCO with the best of everything. The benefits were better than the Military. I worked 60 hours a week and $30.50 OT is nothing. I made $35.25 way back in 1997. We also had a 40 hour week with anything over was OT. With the 60 hour week I still had 2 days off. Retirement was the best I've seen, Normal retirement pay plus a savings plan that the company paid 6% and a CAP program that the company paid 4% depending how much you put into it. If a driver plan his pay he or she could retire after 20 years and have a 7 figure lump sum. Too bad they shut it down. The way of the book smart new hires that found a way to convince the big bosses that a common carrier would be cheaper. So they sold all of their downstream operations.

Being professional helps, in fact it's mandatory if you're going to stay around. Our drivers found out that no matter how many years you have safe driving a program like the Smith System always helps. That is if the company works the program. You can not have a driver attend a Smith course then turn him or her loose. The company must monitor the drivers and keep the program going. We had drivers that had over 30 years safe driving. That's a legend to me since it's all city driving, having no contams, no tickets, and not even a scratch on the truck. I don't care how long you've been driving but 30 years is a very hard milestone to hit.