The Pneumatic Tanker Thread

Yeah I'd love to try that trick, but my blowdown is up front, and I'm always a little heavy on the drives, so that won't work. Only problem I'd see with doing it is the dust. Especially with fly ash.

 

Can you imagine the dust if you did it that way with hydrate?!?

 

Blowing off pebble is a royal PITA. It's hell on the hose, too.

 

I kind of did that with hydrate and clay. We'd load hydrate in 1350 cubic foot trailers, and to get any respectable weight we would open the top air and pack it down to load more. I always wore a respirator when I did it Until the lime plant made a hose to hook to the blowdown pipe. That really helped

 

The other day I got loaded up through my product line. So basically, I close every valve except my blowdown and whichever hopper I want to take the product. So I had a 4 hopper trailer ... had them load my 3rd hopper until my trailer read 45 psi, then I switched it to my 2nd hopper until my truck read 60psi. By the time we finished both gauges were reading right at 61psi. I scaled out at:
79,600 Gross
33300 drive
33800 trailer

See this is why I love using TTR. Was on my last hopper unloading today and got a pretty big plug up. Tried everything I knew and it wasnt helping. Then I remember reading this. So I pressured the tank to 15, put the blowdown wide open, and opened one of my empty hoppers. Took a second but then the trailer started bouncing and I could feel product going in. Literally saved my night haha.

Yea, we have just a couple trailers with the blow down in back. But every shipper Ive been to loads us heavy on the back.

 

The boss just told me today he bought two new MAC 1050 cubic foot trailers. He went on a buying spree here recently, he bought 5 more Western Star 4900ex's, and the first one in the new bunch hit the road last week. The light weight is right at 28000 pounds, which is way higher than expected. So his solution is buy lighter trailers.

 

28k for just the daycab??

My sleeper with an empty trailer is 29.5k

 

No thats the truck and empty trailer

 

Hello everyone, I'm joining your ranks beginning Tuesday and thought I'd check out the thread. I've been driving for about 6 years and mostly pulling reefer. I do have a little bit of flatbed and dry van, but no tank experience of any kind.

 

What happened to May ? I thought you loved it there ?