New Job Finally! Time to yank a tank...

QC, simple advice. Wear all your PPE gear religiously. They are a pretty decent company, but they can put some really nasty things into those tanks.

 

Some tips I have for you.

1. No sudden movements on corners, tank slosh will jerk the trailer around.

2. You are more explosive empty than loaded.

3. Always have the right placards on and compartments marked, last thing you want to do is drop the wrong fuel into a tank.

4. If you are going to be in the cold, put some methyl hydrate in the compartments to keep internals from freezing. Only if warm fuel coming straight out of refinery and outside air temperature is below 32 degrees.

Thats all I can think of for now will chime in if I think of more.

 

Oops must have missed that, rule number 1 still applies then as for the others ya thats my fuel experience coming out.

 

Always thats what the forum is here for!

 

Going through training for my new job at the new company.

I'll be pulling a dry tanker hauling cement and fly ash.

The tanker is definately a different animal although not too much different than pulling a heavy loaded end dump...both are top heavy and should be driven the same with emphasis on slow cornering and careful stopping.

The boss has picked 8 of us to work a new account with one of the local concrete companies that have new materials to haul.

We'll be hauling rock, sand, lightweight agg etc with the end dumps...cement and fly ash in the tankers. Some new mixture called cement treated base in the end dumps. Some new thing called "Super slurry" in a straight truck(thats really an old Mack mixer truck) that has a new frame mounted tank that doesn't spin like a regular mixer and a big outlet sprayer bar on the back like a lime spreader. It's a huge truck with a tag axle and heavy duty front axle...reportedly capable of hauling 21 tons of this new stuff back and forth to job sites. Even needs overweight permits for this deal.

I'll check in from time to time as I learn more.