Fun Tanker Stories

We all got a few that makes us chuckle so let’s hear em.


A driver from a company that just took some of our Chevron accounts did a mix in a busy station but somehow did not catch it at first. Diesel into regular gas. A lady fills up her car and leaves but it starts running rough so she hurries home grabs her other car to get going. Yup you guessed it she needed to fill up!

Now this made the paper with a big picture of the pump-out being done. Chevron put it up on the wall in the driver’s room. Another driver and I were looking at it and chuckling at all the safety violations in the picture and shaking our heads because the company’s boss was directing all of the work. All of a sudden the Chevron terminal manager leans in between us for a better look. The other driver and I got out of there fast before he had a chance to question us on what we were seeing. The driver that had the mix kept his job and his boss just got a talking to by Chevron but it did cost them a lot. They set up a repair deal with a dealership to take care of all the cars that got the bad mix.


What funny stories do you have?

 

Who else likes getting a trailer that has sat in heavy rain? Nothing like coming to a stop with a placard big silver tank with fluid sloshing over the overflow containment on top. Cars just seem to disappear from around you.

 

Pounded on the side of a guys car to make him stop. He jumps out yelling asking what the @@@@ I thought I was doing. I pointed at the cones and the big (4 foot that shell had at the time) open fill pot he was about to drive in and said. Keeping you alive.


This happened to a buddy.
Two bikers went through his cones while offloading. First bike made it fine but the second one hit a hose and fell over. My buddy was laughing his butt off and the dude gets made saying how is going to sue for the damage. This made my buddy laugh harder as he pointed out the cameras and asked how he was going to explain going through the cones and hitting the hose.

 

I worked with a mule.

A guy I worked with told me on his last day working before moving back to Mongolia that he was a drug mule.

He would come from Fresno CA to load Jet-A in San Jose and take it back to Fresno airport. He smiled and said who is going to search the big fitting boxes on a truck hauling Jet fuel. And he was right. The airport had their own equipment so the boxes were always empty. Plenty of room in there. He left America with a little change in his pocket for a nice retirement.

I hate rats but I hate druggies more. If there was proof or he was still doing it I think I would have turned him in even though he was a nice guy. Kind of glad I didn't have to make a decision on that one.