charged trailer's?

i would like to convey a lesson i learned the hard way.whenever you are told you need to use intransit heat be mindful that the little tag on the front of the trailer saying this trailer was charged on the day of pickup is not always true....arghhh.yes i hooked up opened my valves to check for leaks and before i knew it most of my anti-freeze ran out on the ground(dirt lot).arghhhh again. there's a little valve in between the trailer tandems that was open, i had to slide up under the trailer just to close it. and then break out the gallon jugs to refill what was lost. don't believe any tag's on front of trailer when picking up. till you've checked it for yourself. just one experience that i remember when doing tanks.

 

i noticed that schneider used the kind of pump that wasn't shaft driven, so i don't know it looked like it ran off hydralic pressure. but the pump we used was a roper pump and ran off pto shaft application. i remember the first load i ran to des moines out charlotte, the first thing dispatch said was make sure the pump is not froze up before you kick the pto in gear upon unloading, i learned that a pipe wrench works real good on that flat sided shaft. nothing like using a pump with snow on the ground. good times..

 

just curious, have any of you tanker driver's have a customer that upon delivery they said it was okay to air off a flammable load with compressed air instead of nitrogen? you all know what they told you in safety meetings. big no no.... i ran into to that problem in n.j. very unsettling. i know they told us that for a reason. so i tried to make all the phone calls i could make to safety, basically it came down to get them to sign bills and stand out of the way....sheeshhhh.

 

yea, that old truck i was driving i carried at least 3 or 4 gallons jugs of coolant just incase.