Anhydrous Ammonia

Out of season rates are a #### for what you have to carry for insurance. Now the in season rates are a different story. Our broker is out of Oklahoma he owns what we haul and also brokers transport for it so he's loaded to begin with but it pays well very well.

265 to go 13 miles well, you can bank on about $3-4/running mile when it's busy slow times rates go to #### like normal in the hopper bottom world. It ain't cheap to get into though you can about figure on 50-60k for a bottle and hope it has a 5 year inspection. And you can pretty well figure insurance is going to eat you alive if you don't run like a sob when the money is to be made. 5mil in liability don't come cheap. And from what I've heard most places such as ITL don't pay worth a you know to haul it.

 

I didn't realize you could catch a used bottle for 50 to 60. I was thinking a decent used one was in the 90 to 100k range.

 

Last one I looked at was too small at 10400 gallon priced at 57900 1976 year model with a new 5 year. But as I said it was too small. Minimum we look at is 10600 gallons. 25 ton minimum every load. But that's also why the compensation is what it is, we also run 24/7 in season. Bottles don't see much use got to make it while it's there to make.

It pays a premium but insurance alone for 1 truck is about 18k a year if I remember right. It's not cheap but a person can in theory make half of their gross in a season. Pays well for the little guys with good customer service. Helps when you park the truck 3 miles from the plant every night as well makes for very little dead head and I can be there in 15 minutes when it's time to go.

But the draw back is bottles are heavy expensive and 1 screw up and the entire town is gone. One load is the equivalent of over 7 million gallons of vapor on a 9000 gallon load. No room for screw ups I have a very high respect for anhydrous...

 

Can't you wear some sort of protection when around that bc I know man that died bc the coupling broke or something to that nature & another gentleman ran up to help & died to. F*** THATS