Is there a lot of tight backing with Hazmat tankers?

And if you park sideways across the scale there's more room for other trucks.
Don't laugh, I actually saw a guy do this. No camera darn it.


To the OP. Learn to back. Soon. It's part of the program.

 

If you don't wanna back don't drive a truck. It's part of the job.

 

Not only part of the job but part of the test to get a CDL.

 

A lot of the these manufacturing places will put the tank in the very back of the complex. To add to the fun, these places are in old neighborhoods with skinny streets. You're going to need to brush up on your serpentine backing skills.

 

Forget the backing up. You will likely be using safe havens that are designated to take hazmat tankers. That 8000 gallon propane tank is a bomb able to destroy 10,000 people in their beds downtown. You will more likely be sleeping at a chicken coop (Scalehouse) with safe haven parking 60 miles from said town.

The backing is the least of your concerns. If you want, you can confront the demons of backing by joining a milk hauling firm and take a tanker into farms off road backing to a milk house in place since the civil war era. =)

 

How do tanker drivers in California address the bridge law? Is there a provision which excludes tankers? Or are the tankers much shorter than 53'?

 

safe haven parking is for explosives ONLY. regular haz-mat can park where ever.

 

Man then i need to find one of those safe havens.....taco bell did a number on me!

 

For me, it depends on the spot, and how close together trucks are I'm trying to park between. To often when I get out and look, it looks like the trailer going wide is coming close to another trucks mirror. Last time I was at Costco I think they wanted tandems back at the dock anyway and I thought in that situation it made it easier to back in feeling more confident the trailer wasn't going to wide on the blindside.