Tanker truck driver

Well, let's see....@Dennixx....chime in, please...if you disagree...or have observed otherwise:

1. It's nights, weekends, and holiday work (when you start out with them)--tough shifts, especially for newbies. It's a long time, in many cases, before you get access to anything close to a "normal" workday. Most up-and-coming drivers now don't have the moxie for it.
2. Upper management and/or the safety depts at the cryo suppliers/producers are simply too anal about safety--you can apparently be fired even for simple, one-time infractions.
3. Here's another one--I'm seeing that, in at least some cases, some of the fuel haulers are making more money that the cryo crowd. That's a problem I've noticed in my area of the "deep south".

--Lual

 

Try heniff, I’m a driver trainer for heniff in Pasadena Tx, we’ve been hiring students fresh out of school and drivers with no tanker experience

 

Do y'all hire drivers out the northeast Florida area

 

We won't hire rookies but Linde will now hire w no tank experience.

 

Well while I was at Linde before there merger with Praxair. They would hire someone without experience about every 2 or 3 months.

But while at Airgas, they would hire anyone asap.

And now that Air Products has driver facing cameras. I hear from the guys that haven't quit. That AP will take whom ever they can get.

However to me starting with a cryo company is far better than Schneider. Or any other unorganized rinky dink OTR tanker company that doesn't really teach anything.

 

i don’t believe it either !

 

I've seen ads for plants with training programs but afaik they will not hire with no experience

 

Saw an ad in Phoenix for Airgas and new cdl school grads.
The ad isn't there now.
I've seen that in several locations across the USA, but they don't stay long.

 

Here's an ad in Texas for Airgas.

• Class A or B CDL with Hazmat and Air Brake Endorsements
• Minimum of 1 year of Commercial Driving Experience and/or Certification from a validated CDL Driving School

 

Air Products won’t hire you unless you have 3 years of driving experience. But they do hire if you don’t have tanker experience, they will train you.