Vapor hook-ups

You really should never try this in good ol' tree hugging California. I watched a guy do this at the Long Beach Airport one day years ago. One of those small white Ford Escorts with an AQMD seal on the door was outside the fence at the fuel farm watching him with binoculars. Ended up writing him a 10K ticket for air pollution and he lost his job at Sentinel. Looks like they watch even at Whiskey Pete's..

 

so, when you unhook the vapour recovery hose from the trailer, does it open the vent on that recovery pipe on the trailer?

I am trying to remember how it works. the coupler pushes a lil plunger that closes the vent near the top of the trailer on the recovery pipe...........




I drove tank awhile ago, and kinda forget how that worked? If it does not, is the tank not full of gas vapours?

we had only like one site that had it.


does that make any sense?

 

That's OK I was banned from the Conoco racks in Wilmington for pulling off a Scully and driving away...It was a long night and I was tired..But REALLY, lighting up a cigarette as you are pulling INTO the racks, I wasn't even that bad...LOL

 

We had one place we top loaded everything. Smells really good holding the dead man handle with clouds of vapors collecting under the canopy. This one place we delivered to had three small regular tanks, two of which a lock drop would not hook up to, so you had to put on an adapter and stick it into the tank. The big tank would hold one large compartment, and the small tanks were each too small to hold any one compartment.
We had to stick the drop into the tank, and listen until you heard the fuel gurgling, then shut off the valve, and move to the next. A real smelly job doing that place, and easy to overfill onto the pavement.

We had one driver that smoked. He was droping at this place for his first time, and the boss decided to check up on him. He said he drove up, and there was this driver standing over the tank with the straight pipe in it droping gas. He said you could see the vapors waving through the air around the guy, and he was smoking a cigarette.

Some people are just too stupid.

 

I didn't get banned, but I was threatened with firing for tieing off a dead man handle while top loading in order to try to get away from the fumes.

 

The lunatics are obviously running the asylum.

 

What was really fun was hauling a load for one of those independent oil co's that called around to find out the cheapest gas prices for the cut rate stations; Red Head, Speedy, Certified etc. You had to mix the ethanol and gasoline and raffenate while it was being loaded. For example you would have to load the ethanol at Ashland, the raffenate at Texas Eastern, and the gasoline at Marathon or Sohio. You had to override the scully, a real PIA, at each place. This was mid 80's.

 

what is "raffenate"? and did they pay you for all that extra work to get loaded?

where i worked we tended to get screwed in that situation.