Driving a small tanker

Hauling diesel? You DO have your Tanks and HazMat endorsements, correct? Do you have any tanking experience? The straight truck as opposed to the combo vehicle matters not... it's the product inside.
How much experience do you have with Class A and/or Class B? Tankers are their own creatures, and must be respected, ESPECIALLY with flammables. You should probably post this in the tankers forum/thread, but I'll see if I can get a couple of the guys to chime in here.
@Bud A. ... any advice?
@Cat sdp ... any advice?
@slim shady ... any advice?
@scythe08 ... any advice?

I pull tanks, and have for almost 7 years, and it's really nothing like vans, but for the tractor. I haul asphalt, however; which is much more stable than a liquid, as I'm assuming you reference.

Do you have baffles, or is it smooth bore?

Yes, it will be hard work, and mistakes are just not 'buffed out' ...... hang in; leme see if any of these guys has more info... in the mean time; reply and give US more info. Best wishes, man!

 

I've never hauled hazmat -- but now that you mention it, I did have a job hauling pesticides around Seattle in a 10 ton straight truck over 30 years ago (when there were chauffeur's licenses instead of CDLs, and no hazmat endorsement). I always forget about that job. I guess it was my first tanker job, too. Three 400 gallon tanks, each was loaded about half full, one with diazinon, one with fertilizer, one with something else -- malathion, I think.

Anyway, I drove that around to people's places in Seattle and sprayed their trees and shrubs with pesticides and fertilized them. Lots of dragging hoses across yards, lots of traffic, and probably a lot of exposure to unsafe chemicals, but no one gave a darn about that in 1988.

What's that have to do with your question? Not sure. Just know that driving a straight truck with a tank mounted on it makes it a very high center of gravity vehicle with a relatively short wheelbase. In other words, they're easy to roll. And diesel burns hot, even if it is harder to get going than gasoline.

 

I have a friend who fuels overnight with a similar setup around DFW, hardest part is dragging the hoses to the equipment(esp if it's muddy).
Overall he likes it, stays busy, and makes more than he did running aggregate.

 

I did it for two weeks on assignment, it was the easiest job i had compared to the other things I did, I wish I could do it all the time. Started at 8 and ended at midnight, then sat around while on call until 4.

 

Whoever calls that hard work still has his lips attached t o mommas teat.

 

My friend works at the same company...
He likes it, mainly services the heavy equipment building the new I35 lanes.
will you be based out of a Penske yard?