What slows down you gas haulers

I can only speak for Las Vegas and many years ago. But I imagine the hold-ups are about the same. The major factor is the loading rack. That's the one item that holds everyone up. Sometimes you can get in and loaded in 20 minutes (that's super tankers @12450 gallons) and other times it's over 1 hour. The second place and the last for me was getting into the stations and on the fills. Even when we had the station manger clear the way there were times you just waited. It was the station mangers job to make sure the fills were clear. We'd wait 10 mintues then drive off, the manger did everything they could to make sure that gasoline got dropped. However, we hardly used that and just would wait as long as the truck was out of the street.

 

At Kinder Morgan?

 

I bet you went by the Colton terminal if you were SoCa.

 

Our loading rack is old AF and only load at 250gpm. Tapered though. Starts off slow and ends slow. Its all good. Plenty of time for coffee and paperwork.

 

Actually that’s what slows down Bull haulers along with people poking along in the hammer lane.

 

contrary to popular believe, i thought cocaine and lack of sleep were responsible for slowing them down.

 

Yup, When I pulled Jet out of there it was gate to gate in 15 min. Gas 15-20 min but it depended on if there was a line or if I hit shutdown then it was longer. Shell 15 min or less gate to gate. I loved shell.

 

Never loaded at Shell SJ. Kinder Morgan wasn’t bad. Chevron could have some backups at times.