Local fuel hauling jobs. Give it a try!!

I keep considering local fuel hauling....love my current flatbed gig but we've got 3 kids under 3 (one mine, one hers, one ours, due in 3 wks). Hard to handle even doing northeast regional where I'm home every weekend. Gotta get that hazmat, I've driven tankers before (class b, water usually) and have the endorsement.

How difficult is learning all the loading/unloading business with a fuel tanker? Pretty straightforward, or are there a lot of little tricky bits to it? I've been told training for it runs about a month...

 

Loading is all about a routine, get into one, dont deviate and you should be fine, not difficult at all. now unloading at a regular gas station can be even easier. It doesnt get harder until you start delivering to places like bulk plants with above ground tanks but once you learn those different pumps then that will be easy to you as well...good luck

 

I'm glad to find this thread. I drive log truck but it's only about a 8 or 9 month a year deal. I too have been thinking about running fuel tankers locally.

 

That's my dream job there.The tankers here in Jersey are always super clean.Seems like a great gig to me.Just gotta get one year in pullin trailers

 

Currently drive for Gemini motor transport (LOVES). Pay by the load and there is favortism but not by how hard you work or how long you have been there! I hope you figure out what I am talking about. Decent job but your money is made by dispatch. One night 185 which is minimum pay the next 300. It is all in how you are dispatched.

 

Oh, I forgot! There might not be many lines at night but how about chasing allocation all night for a 41 dollar load. You might get min pay but 12 hours for 185 is 15.42 an hour!

 

crazy way to get paid if you ask me. who useually comes out on top. could go both ways huh?

 

I forgot to ask you how is gemini to work for, are they goin ok concidering the big messes some of the other truck stop barons are in? They seem to be building everywhere.

 

I too have never heard bad things from any of the fuel haulers I know. My old driving partner from OTR hauls fuel on Oklahoma and he loves it. Said he will never do anything else.