Fuel your truck while running

Yeah I know & I'm not trying to bust your ####s but have you ever seen how much fuel comes out in a few seconds? The high speed pumps really send pump it out. In the few seconds it takes you to get down from washing your window you will probably have at least 5 gallons on the ground.

 

Glad he was okay. It's not the first time a company wash bay said they washed & steamed a trailer...but never. We used to have seals on ours when I worked at Carons hauling glycol & acids & caustics. After things were washed or steamed there was many ways to double check that it was done.

 

It's not the heat, it's the spark when you turn it on. Intrinsically, basically means its made so that sparks wont happen or are retained inside the tool your using.

I'm not picking on you so please don't take this the wrong way.

Did they do any safety training at all where you work? If you don't know something then, you don't know something...till your taught. If your dealing with just diesel then that's why you're still alive.

 

I'm not sure if I responded to this post or not, so if I did,,,sorry...
We DO NOT split compartments, they are always emptied out before reloading.
So again, no reason to open the hatch or be on top of the trailer.

All of our trailers have each compartment marked in big numbers how much they hold and in more than one spot. We get a load sheet(plan) that tells us how much of what product to put in what comp.
We just double check the numbers to be sure they are correct, then load them.

 

How many have burned down by shutting them off? ________

And which way is just a little bit safer? __________

Will you do any harm by shutting off your truck?_________

And at the price of fuel today, what a waste to leave it running.

 

Any time we had to empty a trailer for work or when it was coming off line it had to be gas free and tested. You had to carry the test report with you because you might get stopped with no placards on. At the Cat repair shop they freaked out if we took a truck or trailer in and it had vapors still in it. I know Chevron at that time would just load their trucks with water when they went to Cat. Anywhere else it wasn't a problem.

You're right about seals, any other tanker company should have then if they haul Jet-A, JP4,JP5, or avgas. I don't know if you ever had to haul any of that stuff but it's a pain. You have to seal every entry to the tanks with seals including down spouts.

 

You're crazy to drive a tanker truck with no sensors working. You wouldn't be able to load ANYWHERE in CA, NV, AZ, OR, or WA. You must have a scully connector. That's where your overfill sensor goes through to shut off the flow if you load too much. I know diesel is still only combustible but how many 1993 showers have you taken? If you're going on the road I would suggest you get them fixed and then go to CFR 49 PARTS 100 TO 177 and check to see if you have all that you need.

 

Ugh... too many.

We had a contract with the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) to fill the tank they filled their locomotives from. They would park the railcars with fuel in them at one end of the yard, we would load our trailers and haul the fuel to the other end of the yard (about six miles) and pump off into their tank.

We self-loaded out of the bottom of the railcars and the fittings and valves were always problematic. A driver was sure to have a diesel shower almost every shift.

The irony in all this? There was a railspur next to the tank that could accommodate a few cars, they just needed to install pumps and lines (we had the contract for years), but that isn't even the worst... there was already a pipeline into the tank from the refinery (which is what they use now).

 

We refuel at our own company yard and it's a manual set up.

I've got a ton of pictures on my phone that I need to transfer to my photo bucket account. Anyhow, you basically keep track of your amounts for each compartment and stand near the shut off valve(s) when it gets close to the amounts. Generally you go manually check the compartments through the hatch when it gets within a few hundred gallons. As for diesel baths, I over filled a compartment once, I had my numbers right but got my amounts for green and red diesel mixed up. I was sitting there with a fellow driver when red diesel started shooting out my vent

As for the trucks, saying these things are wore out is an understatement! The transport has working sensors as per refinery rules but it's hit or miss with the bobtails. The company is supposed to receive some new trucks next month but I'll believe it when I see it.

 

Yup I hauled that, but that was over 20 years ago at Trimac, so the safety wasn't up to today's standards. Plus my memory banks have been purged since then.

When I hauled the acids & caustics at Caron's Transportation, everything was sealed & we also kept the wash ticket but also because where we loaded they required it before they would load us.