Lady LTL trucker wanting to make change, need advice

Your hired , just pick your poison , they will probably pay you to make recruiting ads, lol

 

Superior Carriers and Trimac would be two good companies to look at. Houston is a great place for tankers. Lots of different companies around there. The best thing would be to get on to a private fleet and haul chemicals that the company makes themselve's. You won't regret the move to tankers!

 

All I can say you will love tanker work.

Tankers generally by and large have better equipment and decent people because of higher standards that apply to these things. Even my old walking beam mack with it's 30 foot milk tanker going to and from farms into baltimore each morning had pretty 100% not breaking or bad equiptment. It's not acceptable to to let things not be fixed and stay fixed in tanker. It's food grade and sanitized among other things such as a State license issued to you to grade, collect and weigh milk at the farms. You would be the first point in ensuring that whatever you put into that tanker is safe for people to drink tomorrow. So if a farm has bad milk, you reject it and not load it into your tank because the dairy will REJECT you and all the work the farms did before and after the bad milk man.

As I said you will love tanker work. Enjoy!

There is one little thing though.

Go to McDonalds. Buy a tall coffee cup. No lid. Fill it with coffee as you like it.

Put it on the floor of your tractor cab in front of the shifter in the center under the dash. No lid.

Drive.

If you make it 30 minutes without SPILLING IT, you qualify for tanker work.

 

We've had drivers leave our ltl company to pull tankers. They all came back

 

Plan on spilling that coffee. And have towels or whatever it is you need to make a clean truck again.

DO NOT PUT SUGAR AND MILK into that, save it for when you finished. Otherwise it might ruin the cab a little bit then smell.

The concept behind the coffee test is simple. That liquid in the tanker is going to show you who is boss. It will be up to you to master it. As a woman, Im not worrying about your ability. For example when the light turns green, you ease off the brake and go forward a smidge. Gently. And she will walk on. Liquid goes to the back of tanker. When it gets there, hold a minute before you shift. There is that behavior going on. That liquid is now going to try and pile up in the front and you work your shifting and power to calm it down.

I can go on forever, but rather not. You will learn fast enough.

 

Girton/LLL transport. Regional tanker work. Either chemical or Ethanol.