My new Apple app for gauging tanks hits the App Store today

That's general figure I use. I run a day cab and I'm not paid by the barrel. So I know what you mean by getting all you can on the trailer if your making commission by barrel. I used to have a chart that showed the weight of a barrel at the gravity from 10 to 90 gravity. But that was 13 yrs ago.

 

does your app also account for the temperature of the oil, which affects the gravity, which will make your weight calculation off.
for the truck and trailer combination I drove, 140 plus gravity at 60 degrees temperature, always kept me just under 80,000. Every ten degrees changes gravity by 1 point. so if I had 45 gravity, at a temp of 90, then it was 140 plus 42, means 182 barrels was legal. 145 barrels would be over weight. No app needed.

Now when we went to the 8axle combos, had to find the new rule of thumb...

But I can also see where some people would find the app useful, and rely on it too much... just like they do a gps... they think a computer can never be wrong.

 

I'm impressed! I think that would definitely be useful. If nothing else it would help me remember the bbls per inch of all the different size tanks....sheesh. Unfortunately for me I slip seat different trucks/trailers almost everyday and our level monitors are never calibrated properly. Most of the trailer gauges are Garnett and some are off by almost 10 bbls!! Luckily I haul mostly condensate which is 60+ gravity so it is nearly impossible for me to be overweight unless I overfill my tanker 8-}

 

I will be starting a crude hauling job next week after 23 years OTR. Hope to download your app and give it a spin. I know nothing about this industry so any help will make my transition easier.

 

I wish I had that app when I was doing crude hauling in ND. BUT there are other tests that have to be done with crude so it's cool to have the gauge app but one still has to climb 20 feet and walk that #### catwalk and open the tanks and do your tests

 

Do you have an android version of this app?