I thought I would share a bit of my experience driving tanker for the first time. This is my first real trucking job and I am stoked. I work for Caledonia Haulers (MN) and have a bulk milk route around the twin cities and rochester area. The truck is a 2007 Pete 379 6-axle with a Cat c15 and 13spd. This yanks a 6000 gallon tanker. I get to the shop at 6 am and we do pre trip and take off for our first stop. We pick up 7000lbs of milk and we are on our way to the next farm and pick up 40000lbs more and are on our way to land o lakes plant north of Rochester. Get to plant and there is literally 5 inches on each side of the dock doors for our tanker to slide into....didn't wreck nothing....thank god! Takes about an hour to unload and we are off to two more farms to pick up another 46000lbs. Take this to faribault, mn and then set for 2 hours for unload and tank wash. Then back home for an 11 hour day. Shifting is ALOT different when you are under 50000lbs weight. Above 50k and there is no slosh, but under it, I didn't even really touch the brakes to stop, just jake and downshift. I had to SLOOOOOW down my shifting technique....was bouncing all over hell....lol. Always came to a complete stop and no surge into traffic. My trainer is great and this seems to be an unlikely thing from what I read on these forums. I feel very comfortable in my development so far and am looking foreward to more hours behind wheel. Will update from time to time. Thanks for reading bros.
Diary of a newbie tanker yanker
Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by bgdude88, Mar 25, 2008.
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Hey man, sounds great. It helps to have a decent trainer.
Now for a question:
How do you go about washing out those tanks. Is it just a "clear water" rinse, or is it a soap and rinse? Does somebody actually have to go down into the tank and scrub it out?
As you can tell, I don't know much about tankers!
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Great post-As Don said tankers are a mystery to those of us who have only driven flats and vans. Sounds like you got what so many on here are looking for. Good company and good trainer. Keep us posted.
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Grats on the new job and welcome to the forum! Keep us posted
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For bulkers it goes like this...
You go in there and spray Acid, and rinse with heated water and blow dry with hot air as to prevent oxidization...
take out all them airhoses,airvalves,nozzles etc and clean them too.
Sometimes you gotta scrub the acid solution...Ferrocement for example is one of the worst stuff to clean,plus makse everything look rusty, takes hours to clean and sometimes you won´t get it completley away at all..the soltuipon is try to get a sand load after one then... or several.
Plus Cementpowder etc ain´t healthy at all to inhale...another pain in the ### to get off too...
don´t let either of them stay in the tank too long...the stuff will eat itself because of condensation on the walls...Then you just have to scrub by hand or grind away with a grinding stone...
Funny thou... my old sparring partner does run their family trucking company and met him chugging along the road today as he had to fill in.. I was behind so I phoned him and cought with the latest...
They are going bulkers too and asked me to take a look at things and start driving HazMat containers for them plus some Vans around continental Europe to Serbia and stuff.
All hangs about the pay...plus every now and then I can take my boss in the boxing ring and whoop his ### like always
So guess ´ll be once again a tankeryanker ans a bulker...
*Never Say Never ....
milk tanks I believe you wash away and then sterilize with alcohol... -
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