FCC--Fremont Contract Carriers

Easy weekend for me. Not really ideal mileage wise but it's better than just sitting somewhere.

Dropped in Topeka yesterday and swung down to Emporia to pick up another load. Stopped by town yesterday and about to leave to take this up to Tractor Supply in Waverly. Then I'll go down to Crete to pick up a (hopefully) loaded trailer going to Walmart DC in Sanger, TX for Monday morning. Gonna swing by the house again and probably won't leave out until tomorrow afternoon sometime.

Like I said, not the most ideal mileage wise but I could've just sat at home all weekend

 

I guess I got the ####ty load sitting for the weekend on a abc load

 

It could be worse, you could have had to run the 4" to the pump, then 200feet of pressure hose uphill to an above ground tank. I used to refill a 20k gallon tank for a row of generators at a NG compressor station. 3 loads to that joint was an all day thing. I tried to sell them on the idea of switching the generators over to NG, and they could just use it from the pipeline. The plants for the compressor were already using the gas.

 

How did you ever get your hose off of the pump halfway empty?

 

What is an abc load?

 

No idea. But ABC gum is Already Been Chewed.

 

Abc supply it's a building supply store

 

Our pumps had the ability to blow a lot of air, thar took care of half of it. They had a tank by the parking area for the remainder. I would cap the end of the hose that was attached to the big tank manifold, drag it down to a 200 gallon tank, that was on the other side (downhill) and blow the remainder into it. They used it for tractors and other equipment. If I knew I was coming back, I would just leave the pressure hose on site, and only blow it clean after the last run. I built a ball valve assembly attached to a lenghth of pressure hose so I could block the backflow before I took the hose off of the product pump and capped it. Eventually the customer rigged up a big lift pump to transfer fuel from the tank at the bottom to the big tank, and upgraded to a 1000 gallon tank at the bottom. There was usually about 100-200 gallons in there when we arrived.So we would hook up our 3 inch hose to gravity unload into the lower tank, activate the pump, and start the flow. The only thing we had to make sure of was that we didn't flow too fast for the pump. That's the main reason I stepped down to the 3" hose. I don't think that transfer pump could flow 700gpm. It wasn't super fast, but it was far faster than pumping uphill through a 2" pressure hose.

 

I was told freight is extremely thin this weekend. I’m sitting in Fremont for the weekend so I can do my DOT physical Monday. They had nothing to keep me busy for the weekend and had to deadhead me from Topeka to Fremont.

 

I can attest to that. I was supposed to be home Friday, but wound up deadheading from Ottawa to Lincoln . KC was a dead zone.