Are seasonal fuel-hauling jobs a good way to get experience?

Since you already have experience with a tractor-trailer combined with 10-speed manual, there’s a good chance you’d get hired as trainee for fuel hauling. You’d likely be paired with a trainer for at least 2 weeks. Watch what the trainer does the first week, then the trainer watches you do everything the second week.

 

In Alaska they do that all the time,construction in the summer and haul fuel in winter.It could be home heating fuel or regular fuel tanker work.I would imagine same here in some of the northern states.

 

How are those guys to work for in your profile pic? I see them on instagram hiring recently.

 

Deliver home heating oil and/or propane in the Winter. Also, plenty of dump trailers haul salt in the Winter too.

 

They're good.Pay and benefits are some of the best.Equipment was good but takes beating,working in severe conditions in the winter up there.so there's some decent trucks in the fleet and some not so good.You drive an empty down to Tok,then drive a loaded one back to deliver at the processing mine,then return to the terminal.

I was there 8 months,made 98k plus a good start on a 401k.
I bought my own truck from that income,drive for Mercer now.

 

I dunno how common they are but I know a driver here in Tennessee that got on with Rogers Petroleum a few weeks ago. Seasonal work in a class B truck hauling fuel to area marinas. He'll get all the overtime he can handle this summer and then 40 hours a week in the offseason.