Prime Tanker Experience So Far...

Sudden movements produce large amounts of force. The bigger the change the harder the hit (surge). These surges can roll the truck in a turn or push you forward after slamming on the brakes Flintstone style.

The secret is to be as smooth as possible while allowing the liquid to settle when possible before making a change.

Example 1: When accelerating you would hold speed at 1400 rpm's to let it settle and then shift and begin to accelerate again.

Example 2: Before a turn you use controlled breaking to push the liquid to the front. You don't accelerate or even shift until you are in the turn. The breaking keeps the product from surging hard to the side and rolling you over. Works with accelrating through a turn also by pushing the product to the back of the tanker.

There you go. The basics free of charge. Share the trucking love guys.

GunMetal out.

 

Company side you get paid more to drive a tanker. I'm going lease so that's all I really know about company side. Tanker division makes the most revenue per mile but has the lowest average miles per week.

Tanker is food grade only. No hazmat in Tanker Division.

 

After you unload you usually have to get the tank washed out. During normal business hours you will always have something. It's nights and weekends you'll be hoping to have a run through. We usually only run 4 to 5 days a week. You'll have about 2 days of down time per week if you're OTR.

I'm here for the high profit and low miles. Perfect for a lease op. If you want high miles go company/reefer division.

 

That sort of takes care of it self in tanker. The average for our division is about 2000 miles a week. So cost are being kept low because we just don't run as many miles. I run 54-55 mph with a less than 1% idle so fuel under control. Now I'm hoping for those $2-3 per mile loads I've seen during training. Revenue per mile is just fine when you're looking at numbers on a trip by trip basis.