New Tanker Yanker Here

I HATE short loads with a dry van, I'd really hate tankers

 

@Friday - you are technically correct. The dbl does have SOME discretionary authority to pay out. If they abuse it, they lose it in a hurry. OPS managers make Scotsmen look like spendthrifts and will crack down hard.

Worst Thull can do is ask.

 

When I was with bulk, detention started after 2 hours and paid a max of 14 hours per detained day, they won't pay a full 24 hours because of the 10 hour break, which I think is BS. I once got over $400 in detention pay sitting at a paper mill.

 

Don't worry, it gets even worse....lol, like delivering some elephant snot, get a preassignment and finding out the Qwash is closed or delivering elephant snot and it takes a Qwash 2 to 3 hours to clean your hoses and pump or showing up to a preload that isn't loaded and then blowing your 14 hr clock, waiting and waiting and waiting....however, you will begin to average about 1500 to 2100 a week (miles), which will make up for some of the bad times...although I am a bit jealous of the Prime guys who deliver food grade and all seem to have APUs on their trucks....

 

It should never take more than about 15 minutes to have your pump and hoses flushed.

Which Qwash takes hours?

 

Thull: Tanker yanking is a job that can go from sugar to s*** real quickly, but you've got a good attitude so you'll be fine. There are some days this job takes a lot of patience, but as you gain more experience, those days will get fewer and farther between.

 

Polymer takes a while to get out of hoses and the pump, however at the Chitown Qwash they did it within an hour, at the Atlanta, Qwash well everything is an hour for them to even get to your pump and hoses, then of course there is NJ, at least they now have it set up where u roll in exchange hoses, thank god I didn't have to have the pump washed....