Gas hauling

How much average pay for a driver?
Is it pay per hour or per Load?

 

Depends ... The trend nowadays seems to be by the hour. With the carriers keeping the overtime to an absolute minimum .....

You have to ask around at the places your looking at.

 

I average 2 - 4 loads per shift. Sometimes I can get 4 loads done in 10.5 hours to include a lunch break, but that's busting my hump. These are short distances you'll be driving. Load at the rack, drive out 20 miles, drop the load, back to the rack, load, drive out 45 miles, drop the load, back, and so forth. It's time-consuming. I usually do 3 loads in a shift.

Fuel hauling terminals usually operate on a 12 hour basis, so you might be off work before your 12 hours are up so the next shift can start.

The truck and trailer will be approximately 80000 gross vehicular weight, 8600 gallons of gasoline and maybe 7000 something gallons of diesel. Diesel is heavier than gasoline.

 

TWIC card required to do this work?

 

Bout 40-45 feet.
Now the oversize guys are different.
I live in the south an hauling over 10k gallons of fuel is considered over gross.
U would need a tri axle or more to run that much weight. I only pull a double fixed tandem tanker. 5 compartment.

 

Some locations yes.
If the terminal has access to the river,lake,etc. then you will be required to have a twic

 

I assume it will be live loading in a hook set and live unload? Not like drop and hook pre load.

 

No. It's very rare you'll encounter drop an hook with fuel being that it's supposed to be attended to 24/7.
An to add it's very dangerous to drop a loaded fuel trailer. Our company doesn't allow it period.

 

That's what I thought..

What is minimum and maximum loading delay time at the loading point?

 

It's going to depend on the rack you load at. Consider that most racks will process a truck from 18-30 minutes gate to gate. Then it depends on how many lanes are open. At my local Tesoro rack, from the time I card into the gate, to the time I leave the facility, is 19 minutes. I get one arm going on the tub (largest front compartment) and 2 arms going on the back. It's a total load speed of almost 1900 gallons per minute, each arm flowing at approximately 650 gallons per minute. If nothing goes wrong, you should not be at the rack more than 45 minutes. This depends on your rack, however. At my job, sometimes I have to load 3 different products on 3 different accounts, get locked out of the rack, contemplate stabbing my eyes out with my pen in frustration, call the dispatcher six times, calm down the idiot waiting behind me. But I'm going to say 30 minutes or 45 minutes. The unload time is slightly longer due to staging at the gas station, waiting for idiots to move out of your way, waiting for the clerk to sign your paperwork after delivery, fixing these idiot's veedor root machine when they have it rigged up with a stick, or a straw, and the paper is falling out. Defending yourself from a violent crackhead when making a night delivery in a bad part of town. You get the picture.