Loading Racks

what do the fuel rack cards look like?

 

I just bought the bigger one you have. My small holder is to the point it won’t close.

 

dont know. i have never hauled fuel

 

I have two types
My marathon card is just like your typical membership card to any where. Front has a marathon logo and the back is blank
My Sunoco and bp cards are a little thicker. They’re more like the badges with the magnets to get inside of a building

 

Does the terminal provide rack training? Everyone has terminals up here but I'm most interested in Global. I haul under my own authority,
Thanks

 

Been a while since I talked to a gas hauler but as of a couple of years ago Kinder Morgan in Vegas was still loading gas and ethanol separately. If you domed out you didn't even have legal gas.

 

I haven't hauled fuel since before the ethanol mandate took effect. I assumed that the ethanol was either pre-blended with the RBOB or injected on the fly during the loading process.

 

Some racks still splash blend their ethanol. But even if it is injection blended you can still get a bad blend if the rack shuts off for any reason during loading. If it is over or under by 0.1 of a percent it's a bad load.

There's an old school guy I know. Back when they first started putting ethanol in gas, he would still flood load (I think that's what it's called) his trailer. Basically you would set the meter for like 8000 gallons and then open and close the crossovers as the compartments filled up. So the first compartment he loaded got all of the ethanol and the other compartments got none. He was delivering to different stations... So some customers got E85 before E85 was even a thing.