New Job - Tanker yanker

I have never hauled chocolate but if its anything like molasses, the surge will be easier to control but can slam the living hell out of you if you give it a chance. Chocolate sounds like it would have a fairly high density and may leave enough room in the trailer to bang around in but I don't know for sure.

 

Stewart Dell is the company...some of the trucks just say Stewart on the cab...the orange truck has been around for a while.

Oval Head.

 

The processing plants use electric motors/pumps and suck the milk out of the tank, 5,000 gallons in about 25 minutes, then they flush the tank with about 75 gallons of water to rinse the milkfat out of the tanker and this goes in with the milk to the silo. Then they pump in hot water and cleaning fluid to wash the inside of the tank clean and then a cold rinse to bring the temp of the tanker back down, and this takes another 25 mins.

The pumps make fast work of it...

We connect a line at the hatch for the water and cleaning fluids to come into the tank from the plant and the line at the back end of the trailer to pump out the milk. Neat little process that works well.

 

Some of our trucks have their own PTO driven pump, so we can load or unload the milk without a transfer station to do it for us. We do this when loading a semi from one of the farm pickup straight trucks. Also, on the Amish farms they do not have an electric outlet to run our electric motor on the truck, so we use the PTO one.

You have to have a pump to get the milk to the top of a tanker or to the top of a storage silo....

 

We are clean and ready to load! Just have to drive home empty to get 'er filled up again.

 

I know exactly what truck you drive pumpkin! that truck is sweet..... i thought it was like a 04 but it is in really good shape for a 99! do they need any drivers??? hahaha lol

 

When it is parked, which is rare, as we slipseat it, so it is out to SD and back every 24 hours, or up to Dyersville to pick up a load, or to St. Louis to drop some cream, or to Mpls or LaCrosse, or where the heck ever...
it is parked a mile west of Hiway 13 on County Home Rd...along with a half dozen other Petes...long enough to check the oil, and then off again to pick up or deliver some milk...gotta luv the non-stop flow of milk.

She is starting to show her age...from more than 25 feet away she looks pretty good, but the chrome pipes are getting rusty...the interior is starting to shake apart...the driver door panel has been re-affixed with additional screws...some trim has come off on the door frame on the inside. Some of the 100 gauges do not work. One fuel tank gauge works,and one does not, but at least one works. Pyro does not work...the low beam headlights are like a weak flashight...but she pulls good!

Need drivers...likely...ones that don't tear off bumpers or bend them...ones that work when they are scheduled...Steve just hired 4 of us new grads about a month ago...we'll see how many of us last the first year!

You wouldn't want to give up bull hauling, now would you??? Do you have set delivery points for your livestock? Do you haul cows or pigs or both?

I am new, so learning a lot about all the different haulers. I like hauling milk, and tankers...want to haul fuel at some point...or a pnuematic tanker might be interesting too.

 

I am a recent grad as well and been yankin about 2 mnths now. I dunno bout choc but the resin I've been runnin sounds like the molasses. Just as soon as you forget its there WHAM! You learn a lot through trial and error and learn to take it easy. No cowboy shifting with no baffles (unless you're empty). I should start dry bulk training in about a week and I am soooo ready. Went out once on it and loved it. Then onto hazmat, that's where the real $ is.