Abilene Motor Express....A New Place To Call Home

Yes sir. I’ve learned to watch for higher water content on the lab analysis sheet. Some of my loads are 35-40% water and they slosh around the most.

 

Always interesting the amount of knowledge one can glean from a simple discussion thread on a topic. Thanks for the bit of education.

No tanker experience here so I can’t add much to the conversation, but I recently had a load of 88 drums... Didn’t think much of it until my first stop at which time I experienced the Truck doing a little dancing around behind me ... the weirdest feeling.

Nothing like a true surge described above but it was a fun Physics in Action experiment for me.

 

Before this, my only experience with surge was when I was loaded with paint totes that weighed 6-7000 each. A strange feeling to be sure the first few times.

 

When I was in CDL school, I had dreams of driving a tanker. I got a tanker endorsement but never got the hazmat endorsement. And then I saw I'd have to shave my beard to haul chemicals, and I'm pretty attached to it. So I guess it's dry van and reefer for the foreseeable future.

 

This isn't a chemical hauler so plenty drivers here have beards. Even so, I think the no beard thing is company specific rather than industry standard.

I've only done 2 loads so far and both facilities had furry employees. They have to wear those nets but there were a couple guys sporting beards of Taliban proportions.

 

Nah, that ship sailed when Knight bought Abilene. Freshly minted college grads have no clue what goes on in a truck from day to day.

 

But it works in theory on paper.