How common or rare are OTR tanker jobs?---Key part: OTR

Most production facilities I deliver to are 24/7 operations so whenever they want their stuff is when you have to deliver it.

 

Did many of the people from the old Andrews Transport terminal on John Ralston Rd make the jump over to Logistics?

 

I know of a handful that stayed on. I used to talk to those guys at Shell quite a bit. None of the ones I knew came over.

 

I never knew many of the drivers at that terminal, but I remember hanging out with Bill and the head mechanic one morning. It was a total laughfest!

 

This.
If I wanted to stay out week after week I could.

 

I delivered HazMat loads from Nashville to Klamath Falls, OR, San Francisco, CA, Bangor, ME, El Paso, TX, Minneapolis, MN, and others.

 

Whatever the schedule requires. Each customer has their own demands for product. Generally everything about tanker customers is much much better than 90% of dry van & reefer customers.

 

Food grade tankers long haul all over the country....Our company's average run is about 1100 miles

 

What company is this?

 

I feel that pain. I'm 5'0 and it's not as simple to drive just any truck like the average driver can.

I had very little trouble with the 579 because it was an auto, and I didn't have to push a clutch. The throttle and brake are easier to hit.

I drove a 386 manual and it was a choice like you said between pedals and hood mirrors. 386 is an aero hooded, set back axle 379. I float gears for shifting but getting the clutch brake engaged was always a task.

Cascadia manual or auto I had no real issues other than my elbow smacking the armrest during pullback shifts. If I owned it I'd eliminate that armrest but being a company truck I couldn't. I had the same problem in the 386. Because of my height I have the seat forward all the way, so everything is closer than most people experience.

I currently own a Mack CXU. It's an auto so no clutch and I can set the seat to where I can reach pedals and see the hood mirrors.