Attn: Tanker Yankers

I heard from a couple of follow employees who worked for Lone Star Milk Transport said to avoid them like the plague. Their average pay every two weeks was around $900. I crossed them off my list.

 

If you do theres a good local gas rack job I found on Careerbuilder dot com. Looking for drivers within 50 miles or one hour travel time of their location. I would jump on it but I don't and no way in hell would I ever live in Chitcago. Guess thats why it pays so well.

 

IF IM A NEWBIE AND WANT TO HAVE EXPERIENCE on TANKER TRAILER WHeRE SHOULD I GO FIRST . I WOULD APRECIATE ANY INFORMATION CATNIP1949 . THANKS jvar7829@hotmail.com

 

when I started I worked for a small locally owned foodgrade outfit 5-6 trucks there were no benifits and the pay sucked really bad but I got treated great I spent a little over 4 years there untill some way better came along...I was not into jumping from job to job to make a few dollars more or drive a faster or shinier truck...once I had over 4 years tanker and a clean record it was easy to move onto something a lot better...if you can get some exp doing foodgrade then you will have a lot better chance at landing a good tanker job pulling hazmat...I had 11 years in before I landed the perfect job...keep your record clean,dont jump job to job every few months within time you will land a good job, just dont give up and always be looking and listening...there are some great jobs out there if you are qualified and are willing to work nights and weekends..IMHO tanker is the best of the best

 

looking into foodliner they have alot of local accounts it seems. i know that schneider has tanker division with paid training out of their carlisle pa school

 

If you live near feed mills or chicken processing plants see who is hauling the chicken fat . It would be a smaller company that might accept someone without much experience .
If there is a Griffin Industries location near you you might start on another type truck . http://www.griffinind.com/locations_map.php

 

A good place to get experience handling refined (Gas/diesel) is doing tankwagon or fleet fueling work. It will get you use to loading at racks and get you experience handling product. Most places that do this kind of work will train you. I started out doing heating oil and liquid asphalt deliveries then moved into transport (truck and trailer) work. Good luck.

 

Why must it be OTR? Anything OTR is going to pay like crap, OTR in general is bottom feeding to get exp for local work...even if it's being a tanker driver. Local stuff pays a great wage, I haul food grade tanks for a private company. There is a need for hazmat tanker yankers out west! They'll even give a $1,500 sign on bonus...Even if you have no exp. they even train you, I think hazmat is not worth the hassle so I don't bother and I really like food grade. The extra challenge of driving with no baffles keeps ya on your toes....although it can be a PITA sometimes with that load bucking back and forth.

There are also some local outfits with starting pay of $19.58...but that again is for fuel hauling. They also, will train.

 

As a former employee of Lone Star Milk Transport, I would agree that you should avoid them. I made better money than that while I was there but they treat drivers real bad and will run you in excess of 5000 miles per week if you let them. If you try to run legal, they will starve you out. They have a few macks they recently purchased and are giving these trucks out to the drivers that run the most miles not by seniority. I heard one guy is running over 20000 miles per month.

 

That's the nicest way I've ever heard it said!