Fuel Haulers: Anyone made these mistakes?

Awesome thanks! I just spoke with MJ yesterday which makes me think I may be blacklisted. Recruiter called and said they had openings, and when he pulled up my application, he says unfortunately he can't get a green light to move forward.

I'm assuming it's because they share the same yard with Pilot where my last incident happened. Most likely word got around.

But forsure I will definitely try the others. Big Thanks for the info.

 

Much appreciated. Definitely open to bobtail atleast to get myself in the door.

 

I must have missed this reply, glad I caught it now. You are spot on with everything.

Yeah once in 20 years lol that's true pretty much. I made all these screw ups in just 3 years.

Skully out, absolutely right. When I had the skully out, all I had to do was drain dry. But me being a baby and a rookie, trying to be all honest like they told me, I get on the phone and call safety lol. Jeeze ‍

Spot on with the 10% at the loading rack. I'm carded at almost everywhere due to being at these companies.
The 10% additive first is where I screwed. Pressing clear and restarting a compartment to correct the gallon amount.
Unloaded the additive again. So in a 900 gallon compartment I ended up with 140 gallons of the additive.

So hopefully a if a new fuel hauler is reading this he can learn from it.

There are 2 options if you're at a rack that adds the 10% additive first, you've already started loading a compartment, but you realize it's the wrong compartment which will cause you to dome out;
Option 1. Press stop, don't touch anything else, call the T.O

Option 2. For more experienced - Wait until your compartment reaches the desired gallons, press stop, move the riser over to the next compartment, press start and continue loading.

 

Ok awesome, thanks a bunch. I applied at Elite and I'm planning to call Merit back tomorrow.

I also alright signed up and completed orientation for Knight Transportation (regional port) position, just incase I can't find a fuel hauling gig before having to pay rent. The good thing is Knight letting me postpone my start date for another week. So if I can get an offer by next week, I'll call Knight and withdraw. If I can't get anything then I'll start with Knight by the end of next week.

Big thanks for the help it's much appreciated of the whole community here. I'm learning how important it is to spend more time on this site as a driver. Because it's really a blessing to have youguys to talk to and get the best advice from.

 

Well overfilling I think can happen if you're moving to fast/not paying attention. For example with a T&T at some Chevron racks, you connect the scully on truck first and start it. 3800 gallons. While it's loading you connect the trailer and start them. 3 compartments. 1800, 900, and 1800. Let's say you thought you started the 3800 for the truck but it didn't actually start.
So then you go back to the meter, and now you have the option to choose to start either the trailer or the truck first. Thinking you've already started the truck, you then are moving fast, not paying attention, and actually select the trailer which will attempt to load 3800 gallons in an 1800 gallon compartment.

You skully out and your lane won't let you load again. We'll if you're a rookie like I was, you'll end up calling safety and getting yourself fired. If you're experienced, you keep your mouth shut, drain and unload the compartment until that top sensor light goes out, and you're good to go.

But like another person mentioned earlier, most drivers make these mistakes but rarely. It's all about maturity and experience in this field as I'm learning.