tanker life vs dry van life?

If your looking for regional, milk hauling pays well and many haulers do accept students straight out of school, just depends on your area and what's available. Its a lot of hours and work though. Haulers around here are usually running 12-15 hour days 5-6 days a week. They'd probably start you hauling direct ship tanks. They're always full and there's no additional work on your part other than hooking and dropping. Once you get experience you could go to farm pickup. Your going to smell like ####, and be moving pretty quick at each stop transferring the farmers milk, sampling it and recording their info and washing their holding tanks.

You'll learn how to drive smoothly very quick doing farm pickup. Smooth bore tanks and their never full until the last stop.

At the milk plant its pretty simple and usually a short line. Washing the truck while getting unloaded is a policy for a lot of companies.

Around here milk hauling is a drug. Its a competition almost. All of the truck are spec'd out late model Pete's and KW's with the majority of them being quads for farm pickup. Every time their trucks are in the plant they are getting washed. One outfits policy is to wash and hand dry every time your in the plant. Rain, snow or sun still have to do it. Their trucks get washed a few times daily. At the same time though these trucks get run hard through all terrains. There is no snow day for a milk hauler. You have to get the milk no matter what.

Just an option for regional hauling that pays well since I see your in Ohio.

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Sometimes...... here on my end some majors have removed the quality company loader for a contractor. I've caught 2 or 3 in the last year starting to make a large mistake like unhooking a pressurized hose or undogging a pressurized tank. ( Some customers require 15 lbs N2 on mty clean ) One rookie dropped his radio in the load.....that was fun. Ended up with 4 or 5 on top looking down into the load trying to figure out what to do.......

 

My God, I've heard of 4 inch 100psi hoses killing people. any loader/unloader dealing with this NEEDS to be trained.

 

I can also only speak on behalf of Fuel.. It's only as hard as the driver makes it on himself.. I personally love it! Gas is the best IMHO because the work is so clean, Versus heating oil or diesel.

 

Seen...years ago, I was there. 6" pressurized to 2500k with CO2 on a frac job. Halliburton hand cut it loose from the manifold ....it backed up and stood up like a cobra....big chunk of cylindrical ice started easing out of the end and then was launched across job........the hose went wild, hose whiped n took out a drivers legs, swung back n trashed manifold, equipment, trailers and came back after driver again. Driver and Haliburton hand barely made it under cover of trailer.

Lots of dammage, driver hurt but ok in the end........

 

I love tanker, and I'll never go back to a boxcar. Here's what you don't have to deal with when you pull a tanker:

appointment times before 7AM
waiting hours on end for a door
bumping the dock
shrinkwrap
pallets
breaking down and re-stacking palletized product
fingerprinting freight
counting boxes
OS&D claims
opening the doors so the DOT can look inside your trailer
and most importantly: lumpers, lumper advances, and lumper receipts

 

I left freight to go back to tanker work and I like it better!! No lumpers, no docks, less wait time for loading and unloading!! Like a Guy said previously, almost every customer is happy to see you and they treat you Like a real person!!

 

opening the doors so the DOT can look inside your trailer

Not so fast...... I had the idiots at the customs station threaten to take the access dome off my cryogenic tanker once. No sheet....... I told him go ahead but i'd need to wait " over there " ...... made him think , thank god.

 

How about two newbies (team)? Any out there other than Schneider doing team tanking?