Making move to tanker

I shift on the tide, like milk from heaven. 375 degree will kill me, if I don't treat it right. Good Incentive. Asphalt don't look good on me.

 

Saddletramp, I love ya man. Best poster on here.

 

To fast on off and on ramps, and hitting the brakes when you know you are already going too fast, is almost a guarantee to flip over the truck. I pulled Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) in a smooth bore, and gas in a baffled tank. Each for about a year. Driving through the core of a storm in a dry van in the mid west seemed to be more of a problem for me than tank surge.

 

The point is getting use to surge is not difficult. Tankers roll, flats roll and vans roll. You get used to driving what you drive and it becomes no big deal. But to listen to some guys, you would think surge is impossible to drive with or it's an accident waiting to happen. Respect whatever you're hauling.

Surge annoys me sure, but it doesn't scare me, never has. I brake it pushes me a bit, I go uphill it hits the back, I stop on a hill it slams me but I don't think it is dangerous. It just is. If you drive safe then how is surge a safety issue or any more dangerous? Most of the time I don't even realize it's moving, why because I am used to it.

But what kills me is when other drivers go "Good God!!!! Surge is deadly"!!! Not in my opinion. Just my thoughts, new guys can read this thread and form their own opinions.

 

Can't really give any of that info b/c I've been with a city driver the first two days. However, I'd figure the miles different drivers are getting would depend on which terminal they run out of. I'm training in the Kingsport, TN terminal, but I'll be running out of the Decatur, AL terminal.

 

Ice (where trucks most certainly HAVE been pushed into intersections due to surge), emergency braking and/or evasive action, oil (or any other slick substance on the road), ... you know, those things you can't control. And these are just a few examples coming to mind off the bat. There are many more.

 

Done all that except the icy intersection, still not scared of it. Still maintain it's not a big deal. Doesn't make us the super truckers you want us to be. Course this is liquid bulk I am talking about not hazmat liquid bulk.