Hauling fuel

Not sure how they advertise their schedule but it will be unlikely to get long weekends when there’s a holiday. I’m close friends with a guy who runs a tanker company. To curb all the complaining about who was doing what he decided to go with a fixed schedule. Guys that drive for him or lease their truck on have their choice of schedules, either Friday Saturday off or Sunday Monday.

 

Your out in the weather all the time…….

And any kind of a screw up usually is blamed on the driver

 

Try suburban towing/transport. They do hauling for equipment depot, out of DFW airport area. They start at a decent wage, have benefits, pay overtime after 40 and have weekends off.

 

The "cons" with hauling fuel around DFW, is DFW traffic, and PROBABLY 12 hour days, working nights (new guy) with non-weekend "days" off. In my area hauling fuel usually means you start on nights, your days off are random weekdays. You work that schedule even if it means you work on Christmas, or Easter, or Thankgiving, etc. Fuel and milk are 365 days a year. Fuel hauling is generally regarded as a good job in trucking.

 

Chicken haulin’! I say CHICKEN HAULIN’!!
That’s what you need to do.

 

You'll probably start working nights, 12 hour shifts, your truck will have a day driver. Probably a rotating schedule. The racks shut down for end-of-day inventory before midnight, so try to time it so that you load just before the shutdown that way you're driving and dropping during that time, rather than sitting at the rack.

You'll be busy right before the times when people start driving, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and severe weather events. And if your company has trucks in Houston or in other places along the Gulf Coast, they may send you down there to help out if a hurricane is forecast to come in.

The job requires lots of attention to detail and constantly being aware of your surroundings, but I think you're ahead of most people in that department.

The biggest con is having to deal with four-wheelers in the gas station parking lots, many of which are not easy to get in and out of in the first place. For some reason, people's IQs and attitudes take a nosedive the instant they turn in off the street. The stupidity you'll see in the parking lot is 10x worse than anything you've ever seen on the road.

 

I haul fuel in the dfw area . I’ve started on nights which I prefer especially in this city and I work a fixed schedule. PM if interested