Tanker driver question

If we have a heel there better be a good reason. And there will be a lot of questions. That goes for both chemical and fuels.

 

I almost got fired for bringing back a heel. Real thick anf gooey wster treatment polymer. Tank looked empty before I left customer. I guess what wss on the tank sides rolled down and collected on the bottom.

It just shocks me, considering what I was taught, that a driver would bring back product.

 

Mistakes happen. I know a driver that brought back 900 gallons of gas. He had a three compartment trailer that night and he was used to pulling a two compartment set up. He completely spaced unloading the center compartment.
He offered to quit before we fired him but we figured he'd probably never do that again and he was normally a pretty good driver. We kept him.

 

We are a little different in that we haul our own products. Lots of mini bulk work. And as drivers we are required to washout, load , and blend specialty blends.

 

Good stuff...you're more than a driver, driver.

 

Yeah no kidding. We might fill 10 tanks in a day and spend 3 hours on the load rack washing out and getting ready for the days work. Or we might have a quick load and go, and run a 500 mile turn and fill only 1-3 tanks. Some days I haul a combined 1000 gallons split between 3 compartments.

 

Is the pay commensurate with the added responsibility?

 

It’s a little shy of what I’d like to see it at. Only in the sense that fuel haulers are making the same as us around here. But I’ll still gross 6 figures