Middle tennesee area

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  1. Sburke131

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    I'm trying to get back into a tanker, I live about an hour north of cookeville, tn about 2 hours from Nashville, I have 3 years driving experience, most of it is in a tanker, any help on a decent company that has trucks in that area would be greatly appreciated,
     
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  3. Chinatown

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    A&R Logistics - home weekends and can take truck home.
     
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    Yea, I know that they have a spot in Jackson, but that is quite a commute for me.
     
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    They have a loading facility at the rail yard in Nashville. My former neighbor worked out of there and would leave the trailer there and bobtail home. I lived in Roberrtson County at the time.
    Bulkmatic has a facility at the Nashville rail yard also.
    Schwerman has a terminal on Centennial Blvd not far from the Pilot truck stop. Make good money there if you can deal with the crappy union.
     
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    I have heard good things about them, just never ran the pneumatic tanks, only smooth bore chemical tanks
     
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    Pneumatic is easy, just monitor the air pressure so it doesn't get too high, otherwise you get dust in the air and the customer gripes about it.
    A&R hauls plastic pellets, so I doubt if there's dust involved. I don't know, never hauled that.
     
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    One time I dusted the inside of a plant while unloading flour. I saw the pressure had creeped up while I was tinkering with it to make it unload quicker. The plant manager came running out, but I had the pressure back down by then. I played stupid, so he said he guessed his filter needs cleaning because my pressure was ok.
     
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    Ha, yea, used to try to pull stunts like that with those polyurethane loads. The beauty it seems with dry bulk is no worries about cross contamination with chemicals
     
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    Highly unlikely for cross contamination.
     
  11. Sburke131

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    Well I put in an application for them and trimac since they have trucks in the Nashville area, hopefully it pans out, thanks for the info
     
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