Lifting requirement for tanker drivers (for future refrence)

Tanker work does require some upper body strength. I have had some instances where it was very hard to get 3 inch hoses into trailer hose tubes when they were full of product. I don't know how much they weighed but it took all the strength I had to push them in the last 4 feet or so and I have plenty of weight to put behind them. I am sure I could lift 100 lbs over my head if I needed to.

 

Drain where? Several of those hoses hold more than a 5 gallon bucket and some plants won't tolerate leaving any. It's best to cap the hoses and let a tank wash dispose of it . It doesn't happen much but it does happen.

 

Some of these plants require you to push product up several floors. Sometimes there is a one way check valve, sometimes there isn't. It takes much more pressure than gravity provides to push product through. When the pump loses prime you pretty much have what you have in the hoses. SOP is to walk them to get as much out as you can but you often have quite a bit of product left in hoses. The only way to get it out is to drain it into buckets when you unhook the hoses.

One of the products we haul a lot is waste water treatment polymer. It is a flocculent that grabs dirt out of water and precipitates. If you get it in a drain it will clog it in short order. Not much you can do but take it with you.

 

You don't carry buckets of product. You could dump them back in the dome, or leave them at the customer. I carry a small bucket for unhooking hoses but it is for catching small amounts of product and fits in my fitting box. That is why I generally don't drain partially full hoses. I cap them and let the tank wash deal with it