Groendyke Transport

Their trucks are common around here, I would have thought Groan or Groin, but it actually rhymes with Klondike, when they called me on the phone, I didn't know who they were.

 

This is a somewhat old thread, but I'm curious. Does anyone know if GT has an O/O or lease program? I've been thinking about maybe trying to get into tanker, and I live in OK, but after being lease at another company I'm not sure I want to go back to having a boss.

 

Cryogenic tankers is really where it's at.

Eff chemicals and fuel.

 

You need quite a bit of cryogenic experience at my company or I'd say come work here because it's as good as trucking is going to get.

 

We have a hospital here which I consider to be reasonably good, seeing that Harding University and it's money has managed to back such a lumbering institution for a while they have waived, tore up, charitied, tossed, disallowed, wrote off and so on I think approximately 150K in medical billing

Behind the main buildings sit two tanks. And about a acre of piping, fins and other metal designed to control and work temperatures of the product to where by the time it reaches the patient it's in a situation capable of being used by the human being.

One is a straight oxygen tank. The other is a liquid nitrogen tank. Both are very cold. Im not sure exactly how they go about mixing Nitrogen Vapor with a percentage of oxygen required to keep the brain from essentially bricking and dying in a few minutes for surgery etc. (My dentist explains to me that she likes to see me at around 48% of gas and all else provided by oxygen straight. I am not a chemist but isnt our earth's atmosphere already 70% nitrogen gas and 21% oxygen gas followed by a number of other trace gases, probably helium, hydrogen etc.

Anyway. Both of those tanks are big enough to take aboard a entire 18 wheeler of liquid something for that particular pair of products. I think there is even a third tank on the farm that holds something else but not certain what that one does yet. I think the product supported by that third tank is a vacumn for suction purposes. Now I don't have a clue as to how they intercept the blood, gore, puke etc before it gets to all that. But that's why I am not a engineer. How do you deliver something that does not behave normally like approaching zero atmospheric pressure?

 

Loading and delivering cryogenic liquids is actually really easy once you learn the system. I had months of training while I was at Air Liquide which is now Airgas.

I'd seriously go to Airgas if you want to get into tankers. I guess there are many drivers out there that are happy hauling other liquids. I'm just really happy with cryogenics.

Good luck to you.

BTW, a really good friend of mine worked for Groendyke and he hated it and now he works back in cryo at Matheson in Stafford Texas, near Houston.

 

It's a liquid. You pump it into the tank. True, the pump, hose, and tank are specially constructed, and there's more to it than "open the valves -n- let 'er eat", but it's still a liquid transfer.

 

They do not.

 

You need a year of tanker no matter how much driving exp and Hazmat you have. Airgas called me and wouldn’t touch me cause no tanker exp.

Before I left Reddaway one of the new drivers came from Groendyke. Said it was night and day difference coming over to Reddaway. He said everytime he came in the yard there was always someone looking for him to talk to him about something. He said it was weird when he drives into the yard now. He said now nobody is looking for him or trying to coach him on something. He finds it odd. He told me. He said he was always looking over his shoulder and paranoid at Groendyke. Pretty funny.