Advice Please

Hi everyone
I'm new here and need some help. I just graduated from truck driving school a week ago. I really want to go in the field of hauling dry bulk (chicken feed, sugar, or even milk) does anyone know any tanking companies that hire recent graduates? I live near Atlanta, Georgia. I'm getting ready to sign on with Wiley Sanders because I can't find any companies out there and my bills are due!

Thanks

 

with little experience your limited with companies to choose, heck i got 6 months and it hard for me.

 

Do your time with Wiley Saunders, get some experience, and in 6 mos to a year you'll be good to go. Use the CB to talk to other drivers when you see a bulk tanker.

 

It is hard for you because you have had 3 otr jobs in 6 months and you admit that you fib on applications.

 

You need to stick it out with a company for a year or more.
juggly the bills if you can, or call them and see if you can change the due dates?
Your new the company wants to see if you can hang with the job and
all that comes up as a driver. talk to other drivers, hang in there and you
will find a company that will work for you..

 

Get 2 years OTR experience and have a tanker endorsement and Ruan will hire you. I went thru the training with them, money was great and would have been home every night. Just one problem, that milk hauling is real work and I'm lazy. After the training I told them no thanks, guess it was a good thing I went to the training with my vacation time.

 

How is hauling milk hard work? What exactly do you have to do?

 

I was training for local farm pick up, I imagine longer haul wouldn't seem much different then say the effort for flat bedding.

Let me give you a idea of a typical run.

1. Drive 15 minutes to a dairy.

2. Climb a ladder to get a sample out of the tank they want unloaded.

3. Hook up your hose to your tank and the tank to be emptied.

4. climb your tank and open the hatch

5. climb down and start the pump

6. climb your tank again to watch to make sure you don't overflow it.

7. If you empty the farm's tank you get to do a lil dance with the hose to get as much milk out of it as possible, think of trying to wrestle a big snake.

8. Put your hose away.

9. IF you emptied the farm tank, grab a hose and climb the farm tank again and wash out the inside.

10. Drive 15 minutes back to the processing plant, slip seat to another truck, repeat process for 12 to 16 hours.

 

Sounds like driving a mixer. Up and down all day long. Wet several times a day, year round. If the drum gets gunked up, in with a chipper to clean it out. This needs to be done at least twice a season no matter how well you wash in and out.
Some plants are messier than others.
All this for around 12 dollars an hour.

 

With a milk tanker when you get wet it's not water it's milk. You'll smell sour by the time you go home.