Taxes not done just yet, haven't gotten my w2, hopefully soon though.
We haul 8800 gallons of gas. That's a legal load for our trucks with pumps. If I'm in a truck without a pump I can swing 8900 gallons.
1st Year Hauling Fuel in Jacksonville, FL
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Do the 4 wheelers respect you, or do they cut you off like any other trucker? Have you ever or almost dropped wrong product into a tank? Are the fumes strong or do you barely smell them?
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Locals up here do 12,000 gals of gas.....legal or not.
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I once dropped diesel then switched the hose on the trailer but forgot to switch the ground connection. Almost pulled the handle before I sensed something wrong. I followed the hose and switched the ground connection. My trainer always taught me to get into a routine that way if you break it, you can feel in your gut something wasn't right. So I caught it before touching the lever on the trailer. Now I always follow my hose before pulling the lever.
The fumes you get used to. Most stores have vapor recovery which uses two hoses. I hook a product hose up to the tank then a smaller vapor hose up to the vapor connection. It keeps the whole thing a closed loop. Some stores have faulty vapor so you'll smell it every now and then.Dinomite and Weeble Kneeble Thank this. -
I usually load whatever dispatch sends me, company pays overweight fines. Though if they send me an overweight load, and i know im going to cross scales, I usually just cut it back to legal weight, mainly to avoid a delay.Bigdaddy00 Thanks this. -
I will add, the vapor clings to your clothes. I get used to it so much that I don't smell it but when I lived with my brother I went home and was talking to him. He told me to go take a shower because I smell like $3.80 a gallon lol.
I also don't wear my shoes into my apartment on the carpet. I take them off on the tile and my clothes go straight into the washing machine. I use extra detergent and oxy-clean to get the fuel smell out. Though if I have a big stain from diesel on my clothes I just throw those away. Learned the hard way just how difficult it is to get diesel out of clothes.Weeble Kneeble, 123456, Dinomite and 1 other person Thank this. -
Did you finally move to Jax? I'm pulling a dump for Cypress, pretty sure I pass your yard there off of Talleyrand on my way home. Glad to hear you're happy driver.
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Load pay for hauling fuel my goodness. Do they pay u for waiting at the rack or if it goes down?
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They pay after 1 hour, $10/hour. Since I started I've only used it once. In my pay that was what the $10 was for where it says waiting pay or detention, whichever I wrote. I hardly ever have to wait more than 30 minutes to load working nights. Every now and then I have to wait because the rack is down for inventory but if that happens I can swap my loads around and go load at a different rack then come back when this one is up again. Or I can turn the load in all together and choose a different load or go home depending on the situation
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