List of Private Chemical Fleets

Blasting Agent is usually ANFO.

 

They would pre-mix that in a tanker? I always figured they would do that on site. But wadduwino?

 

It's been a couple of years since we hauled that stuff but it was always pre mixed before we'd load.
I guess it could be mixed on site too but I'm not familiar with that. I know that some of the specially designed trucks that load the holes in the mines could mix ANFO
The diesel/AN mixture has to be precise and the mix has to be consistant throughout. It's usually mixed in a plant and then loaded.
We also hauled bagged ANFO.

 

That makes sense. I always saw bagged ANFO. I thought it was "bagged ammonium nitrate"; just drop the bags down the blast hole, pour in the #2 DFO, and FOOM!

The media always made it sound like any yahoo with a 25-lb bag of fertilizer and a bucket of diesel could take out the Capitol.....

 

Actually you could. It wouldn't be very effective unless you mixed up a bunch of it. When Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Building he used about 7000 lbs of homebrew ANFO. That much ANFO, professionally prepared, would have resulted in ten times as much damage.
The AN prill for making ANFO is different than the regular AN fertilizer prill. The prill for ANFO is multi faceted and harder. It's also more pure and is manufactured for consistancy.

Caveat..I don't mean to sound like an explosives expert. I'm not. Everything I learned about the stuff came from hauling it on a regular basis for a local explosives company. We don't haul it any more. The explosives company bought their own trucks.

 

Nalco has more locations than Suez. But they top out at $28 and some change per hr. And pay ot after 40 hrs

Suez stops out a $32 p/hr and ot is after 8hrs and double after 12hrs.

 

There is no micro management, you control yourself.

 

Peroxy Chem is a decent private carrier

 

Chemtrade

 

It depends. If you’re a company that supplies chemicals for water treatment than there isn’t much money in it at all. Bleach, sodium bisulfites, chlorine, caustic etc. are all dirt cheap and you have to sell a lot of it to make money.