Cant do it anymore

I understand that. Sometimes you really don't know if you are going to be able to stay with whatever you got your training in.
But keep in mind, that you found a way to do this once, you CAN find a way to do it again. Particularly if you have the blessing and help from your spouse/SO/GF. And if you don't.....well then, you have a decision to make...

 

I'm at that point. I love Werner. If they had a day cab operation in Boston id never leave.
But alas...
Mrs BTG and i have hit a wall.
Phone rang. Local home heating oil. Big money.
If everything goes right and I pass 2nd interview.. Im going home.
I love the job. But it was so 10 years ago I should have done it.
Don't get me wrong.. Im glad I did.
Im glad I went with Werner.
Werner gave me an opportunity of a lifetime. They paid me to see through my dream of living in a KW and seeing the country.
I made it past my 1 year of solo service last month.
I accomplished what I set out to do.
I would like another year out here, but it won't be at the expense of the woman I intend to marry.

 

I remember you Boston Tanker. You were asking a while back if you should stay with Werner or take a local job driving an oil truck, right? Houses still use oil furnaces in Boston?

 

Baltimore does. As do certain suburbs. My home contains a 400 gallon tank, which is filled twice a year at prices I don't wanna know about now.

I was raised in a home that once took stoker coal weekly through the basement window into the bunker storage, about a couple tons if that. The house was built in the early 1920's And converted to oil after world war two.

 

Here OP this song is for you.

" I guess I've always been a travelin' man
Cause when I movin' I can make a stand."

 

Is it because Baltimore hasn't completed a natural gas pipe network yet or some home owners just didn't bother to convert? You learn something new everyday, I assumed the whole country converted to gas furnaces by the early 90's. I know one of my instructors in HVAC school mentioned that during the 80's much of his work was replacing oil furnaces.

 

Baltimore was one of the first to use gas light in the 1830's roughly. If not earlier. I may be badly off in my year estimate.

Baltimore imported gas from Iran, those went into three massive storage tanks along what is now I-95 west of the Fort McHenry tunnel. Those tanks were torn down. The Shah was overthrown and it became a Islamic Regime enemy of the Free World.

World War two encourage pipe for gas. As well as the then new Colonial Pipeline from Houston to I think Delaware. Railroads sent all availible tank cars to Cushing to ship Oil and similar all over the USA and strictly inside the USA, away from Doinetz's Drumroll operation sinking dozens to hundreds of oil tankers and such off our entire East coast and in one or two cases even off Aruba and off Magascar to support Japan.

Gas was a waste material as was Gasoline to be burned off back in the late 1800's and early 1900's They actually harvested whales for oil lamps and other needful things until the whale became almost extinct. The original ford engine demanded gasoline.

Natural gas improved constantly since then. Then we learned to crack coal in a closed hearth oven to create synthetic gas I believe. Then introduced cracking towers for distillation around world war two. If not earlier.

I hae the knowledge, but my time line is so screwed up because my mind is not what I would like it to be anymore. Maybe it's a blessing.

 

We use propane in Texas and we have huge propane tanks in our yards.