Fuel your truck while running

All joking aside, gasoline is a different beast and I my self would exercise more caution. But, cell phones in my opinion doesn't pose a threat as originally believed.

 

I don't quite understand, in an earlier post you said you graduated in 2007 and it's a 2 yr school so you started this in 05' when you were 15-16 yrs old? How could you handle full time school and HS at the same time?

 

BTC is a Tech High School, I went to MMU for my high school classes and then over to BTC for my tech school stuff. And yep I started tech August 2005 and graduated june 2007




American Trucker

 

When I hook up at the bulk plant to off load my 15000 gallons of diesel, that the very first thing I must do "BEFORE" doing any unloading is hook up the ground wire. It's not there just to make more work for me. The only difference when your fueling your truck is "they" are unloading the fuel to your tank. Yes my truck is running when I'm pumping off my load, but, I hooked up the ground wire to take care of any static electricity, did you?

Just to give you a little better idea of how dangerous static electricity is & how easy it is to create. About 15 years ago I used to load Jet A Fuel & deliver it to the tops of mountains in B.C. for the helicopter skiing people. This was loaded by whats called top loading, or open lid & load. Stand up there watching so not to over load the compartment. The shippers would double check you before you went up there to make sure that "nothing" was in your pockets that could fall out. Because even a pen falling out of your pocket dropping a few feet would create enough static to create a spark. And for unloading in the bush I had to drive 6ft long re-bar into the ground at 2 corners 25 feet away from my truck & trailer & clamp cables at both ends to the re-bar to take care of the static created by off loading.

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Jet fuel

Main article: Jet fuel
Jet fuel is a clear to straw colored fuel, based on either an unleaded paraffin oil (Jet A-1), or a naphtha-kerosene blend (Jet B). It is similar to diesel fuel, and can be used in either compression ignition engines or turbine engines.

Again your gambling with your life & of those around you. Thanks

 

that stuff will also give you a MEAN rash! My first time changeing a Fuel pump on a Hughy (helicopter) i got a bath from it when we took it down lol. Wont do that again.



American Trucker

 

Static ignition?


I'm not worried.






















Having hauled fuel, worked in refineries and on oil & gas leases, and seen the results of accidents... I'll err on the side of safety too.

 

We typically don't attach the static line when loading (we load at the yard) but we have ground straps that hang down from the frame touching the ground at all times. Now in the field, have a rod that we hammer into the ground for attaching our static line. I don't know about our transports, I'm assuming they attach their static lines while loading at the refinery.

 

i found aviation great when i was an apprentice--once licensed--a different world--cause then you are legally responsable for the other idiots running around there that arnt licensed yet--the money was great--the hours great---4 on 4 off at 13 hours a day---but i did find it stressful--now to go back i would have to write the air regs again--a nasty test---the rest were ok---but i think my days of either freezing or roasting in dark stinky ac are over---maybe

 

that was on of my reasons (excuses) to get out of it (the resonsiblity). I think its STUPID that if a tech changes a part with 500 Flight hour service life and it happens to fail at 475 hours YOU are responsible and YOU loose your license unless they can find proof in the wrecked aircraft that you had NOTHING to do with it.


And then somehow i ended up in trucking where 1 Logbook cheat or mistake can land you in jail

Boeing opened a Overhaul facility in NY right across Lake Champlain from where i lived in VT, and the guy that was suposed to run it was an old freind of our teacher, so he came over to recruit A&P's for when we graduated $27/hour to start. They take aircraft like 747's that are at the end of service life and strip them down to the bare frame/shell and rebuild it and put it back in service. And yet I thought i knew better and turned it down


and before anyone says anything YES i know im retarded! lol





American Trucker

 

oh and like you since i havent touched an Aircraft since 2008 I would have to go to school all over again and retest since like nurseing if you dont use it you lose it lol




American Trucker