MC331 weight

I would say that is about average for a truck like yours. I was out at blair saturday to get a load they told me they couldn't overload anymore. They loaded one 80200 and it rolled over in a accident. Someone came knocking wanting to know why they overloaded the truck. Now you have to show cab card in order to load over 80000 to prove your licensed to haul extra. Looks like i am done hauling nh3 for a awhile. It's gonna be wet for quite awhile.

 

I dont get to post much on this thread, but i lurk quite a bit.

@Lon76 , have you guys been busy moving much nh3 out there?

 

I hauled for 5 days then got rained out. then i hauled 3 days to fill back up. Looks like its gonna be wet next week so who knows how much more we will haul. I'm just a company driver so we only haul to our locations.

 

I literally scared the ever loving #### out of myself today. I tried to solve a problem and ended up in a situation that really scared me.

 

What happened?

 

I finally parked for the night.

Canada added another tank to this account and completely refurbished the "new" tank. All new fittings, caps, air lines and blow off lines. Problem is, they never installed a sample valve, which the customer requires. (It's also a different setup then I'm used to) Knowing this I figured I could borrow the valve from an mt tank in the yard. Evidently, they've used this tank locally in Canada and didn't tell anyone, so when I unscrewed the bolt from the hole that the sample valve screws into I wasn't expecting there to be any product in the pipe.
There was a lot of product in the pipe and the bolt was much shorter then I was expecting. I mistakenly unscrewed the bolt too far and 60 psi of ether started to blow out the hole for a good 10 mins. The way these tanks are built, the internal valve was closed, but I my state of mind, I wasn't 100% sure.
Once I was able to think the problem through, I figured out that I wasn't going to drain the whole tank in the parking lot, I calmed down, but turns out you can't install a bolt into a stream of ether blowing at 60 psi. I just had to wait till it all blew out and then reinstall the bolt
I definitely left something in my pants though.

 

I'm glad the pressure didn't blow that bolt into your body. And I'm glad you didn't get an ether tattoo.

 

The bolt missed me, but I did get some on my arm and cheek. Nothing serious, just cold and burned a little, but no damage other then my ego.