Inexperienced tanker driver

There are rules about safe havens and hazmat loads. We have to place glad hand locks on any hazmat loads we drop even at terminals loaded or empty. Paperwork has to be locked up as well.

 

That's a couple hundred more miles but you get to run all night and are headed back into the NorthEast. I would have rather stayed on Indy

 

You can only do what you can do. Are they OK with it being 6 hours late? I bet you really have a delivery window. That's one good thing about tanks. Lots of smaller places you are just topping off a tank and they don't really care what time you get there. The big places have appointment times that are strict because there is another truck scheduled right before or after. Some it's first come first served with no appointments. As you gain experience you will get to know the lay of the land with different customers. Unfortunately dispatch (at my company anyway) often doesn't communicate that information.

 

Well how did your first unload go. I just parked after 665 miles for the day. Just watched a pumpkin van guy do his post trip. I laughed when he kicked his steer tire.

 

Sounds good. You got a couple hundred more miles out of it and are getting empty about the same time. Sounds about like a wash with staying on the original load and collecting $85 layover pay, The difference is the $85 would not count against the 70 and that increases your actual per mile pay. Provided you still run close to the 70 the rest of the week.

Thanks for the thread. I am enjoying seeing how big orange runs you. I know it's early but I don't think I would like having 700 mile runs chopped up like that. Where did the load you delivered originate?

Also someone got the load you dropped which would be under 200 miles and a difficult pump off. Unless he is local that would suck.