The Fuel Hauler Thread

You must be an owner-operator? No company driver...who goes home every night makes that kind of money around here. We have some guys who work nonstop 6 days/week who barely gross $1600/week.

I do know some guys with their own trucks who bring in about $120ish.

 

No, I’m not an owner operator. I’m just in a good position. Deliver all my loads back back to town I live in. Nearest pipelines are 100 miles west and 100 miles east, all 75mph interstate. Generally average around $35/hr.

I’ve never heard of any companies that offer $35/hr, which is why imo as long as you are competent and work fast, you can make much more money with load pay versus hourly pay

 

I'm currently on $43.50 an hour with paid breaks and 4 weeks annual leave plus 10 days paid sick leave however to be fair i'm working in a different country woo hoo. so an average 10 hour day for me earns $435 to haul 50,000 litres of Diesel fuel .

 

DOT knows that it takes 30-45 minutes to deliver a station. DOT knows if looking close enough, that if you have 3 breaks conveniently scheduled at your delivery sites, you're lying. But, if you reverse it and go off duty at the loading racks, then it's more obscure. You could say look, I was waiting in line and the rack was down, and it only takes 20 minutes to load a truck gate to gate when the rack is empty, you can see I was here for 60-75 minutes and my BOL shows this is when I finished loading. Then you're good provided your BOL doesn't overlap with your break times.

 

I don’t take multiple breaks every day. I only take 1. But I generally never spend more than 25 minutes at a station and I work nights so I never wait in line at the loading rack. On my middle load I always just have to spend that extra 5 minutes or so at the station to log my break. I’ll show 2 minutes of on duty time and a half hour break.

My boss was all over me about it since going on elogs in October.
Been written up 3 times (I do it every day, but he only looked at maybe 1 day every 2 months). Was threating to suspend me. Then we got audited in June, I was one of the drivers they examined, company was not cited or fined for any of my logs and we got a satisfactory rating

I’ve been continuing to log breaks while unloading and showing no unloading time and my boss has left me alone since the audit

 

Your racks don't shut down for inventory? No offense, but you sound more and more full of it every time post.

 

One rack I go to shuts down at 7am for inventory. Which doesn’t impact me in my schedule. A refinery i go to never shuts down for inventory. Sometimes they shut down for planned maintenance but you know about that days ahead of time and obviously don’t go there then. I don’t get paid demurrage til after I wait an hour. My total demmurage pay for 2018 is $22.50 so far, so no I don’t ever wait, other then maybe 10 minutes for a rack to open up if all randomly full at night.

I’m reality my $22.50 demurrage pay is from the burner going down and ending to call in technicians not even from a waiting line

 

For the record though, I’m not full of anything. Everything I’ve posted in this thread and other threads is true

But I am in a very fortunate situation and area of the country where I can make money. I often think about putting house up for sale and moving to a more desirable area. Not sure if I would happier living somewhere with more outdoor recreation, but making less money and dealing with more traffic/stress. For now I will stay put where I’m at.

 

Not sure why your so angry with me anyways. All I ever did was refute your claim that you need to be paid hourly to make real money in this business.

Let’s say you get $40/load. You get in out of the pipeline in 20 minutes assuming there’s no line. Can generally drop a load in 20-25 minutes assuming it’s not a full load of one product into 1 tank. That’s $40 for 45 minutes of your time. Assuming your average speed is decent, your getting highway miles and your not sitting in traffic all day there is a lot of money to be made with load pay if you don’t screw around.