Tankers the Schneider way

Then you sure wouldn't want them in a side compartment under the bunk . If they are that bad they should be trashed . Reactions with chemicals contacted on the next load could be interesting .

 

Now that intermodal is interesting . Are those the tanks that have heavy metal frames around them and go on container chassis ? If not I shudder to think of the damage the unloaders would do at railyards . I used to run steady for a trailer repair yard in GA going to CSX and NS yards picking up damaged trailers belonging to Xtra and TransAmerica . I'd bring them to the shop for repair then we'd deliver them to UPS , Yellow or CF (yup , Cornflake - it's been a while )

 

A cheap plastic tool box from the dollar store and some bungee cords to secure it behind the cab. I got some type of Maleate on my gloves one time, and didn't realize it because this stuff was odorless. 30 minutes down the road I had to pull off, was dizzy and getting double vision. The gloves were in the side box, not in the cab. After my head cleared I stuck the gloves in a hose tube.

 

exactly...i believe with some products, even a tiny amount, even the side box will fairly quickly be noticeable inside the cab. MA=methyl acrylate
peee uuuuu!

 

Yeah, Acrylate. You could always tell at the tank wash when someone had hauled acrylate. You could smell it for blocks.

 

You see the guys with experience talk about the product along with the truck. That's where the training comes in. If you want to know where the requirements for any load that deals with hazmat I suggest reading the CFR 49 Parts 100 to Parts 177 Subpart A §177.800 to §177.870 depending of course what you're hauling. I would especially pay attention to §177.816 Driver Training. And Rick is right, just because one person that holds a responsible position is to lazy or not even in the know himself does not make it law. It's what is written and like many say it's written from blood.

 

All of our trailers have the pump mounted between the landing gear. The tractor has a hyd. pump mounted on the side of the frame which runs off the engine, hit a switch in the cab and the rpm kicks up to 900 and engages the hyd. system. And the hyd. hoses go to a pto motor at the rear of the frame. You connect a slip shaft to the PTO motor shaft and to the pump shaft and there is a contro; handle at the Hyd. unit to control the shaft speed.
All trailers that are not belly unloaders have a belly line from the rear of the tank to the pump.
Plus we have high pressure air for a air-off if it's a non-haxmat.

 

May as well just say it,
The company I work for lost a couple of contracts to schneider, they came in and under bid way low. Now we pick up a lot of loads that schneider is either late on or cannot handle. When we get a load the driver is there at the load and at the delivery! The only exceptions are if a local driver loads it or there is a personal emergency. When a local driver loads and brings it back to the yard the OTR driver is usually there waiting to run with it. No dropping terminal to terminal. You will be surprised of all the late loads Schneider has that we(and others) grab.(and trust me, I'm sure our co. charges out the #####!)

 

When I was tanking very seldom did we do drop & hooks at customers. We loaded it, transported it, unloaded it and then went to the tank wash. Sometimes we got to swap a dirty trailer for a clean one. Occasionally a terminal would have a load ready for you to pick up on their yard, or you would get to drop a load at a terminal if they had a hot load ready to go and the one you were under wasn't due to deliver yet. The only time we got to unload and deadhead home was if it was a dedicated trailer. Usually that was only with dry bulk, or some particularly nasty liquid that required a dedicated trailer such as acid.