Question for Crude Drivers about overfilling a trailer

For experiences crude drivers I have a question.

If one was loading a crude trailer, say your standard 200 barrel trailer loading from a standard 20 feet 400 barrel tank and for whatever reason you didn’t stop the pump and you over filled , what exactly would happen.

Would the oil pop out of the top out of the manhole cover.

Would the oil pop open the the bolted in scrub out valves on top.

Or would it just shoot out of the vapor line.

I tend to believe the latter. I tend to believe it would come out the vapor line. As the Manhole cover is typically clamped in, and the scrub out valves are bolted in.

It’s hard to explain why I’m asking, but I need the opinion of experienced crude haulers.

Perhaps some of you had a co worker that over filled. What happened? Did it come out of the vapor line ?

Thanks

 

So the clean out caps being bolted in could still pop out in that scenario? I wouldn’t think a truck pump would be strong enough to do that.

 

I was assigned a trailer that should of been tagged out but wasn’t. I loaded about 180 barrels, started to leave the lease and see oil coming out the back of the tanker. I was like WTF how did this happen. Then I realized the scrub caps had been taken off by the mechanics and that’s how the oil came out. I explained this to safety guy but he’s like no you overfilled, I explained that I doubt that could even happen, but I got canned and they put it on my DAC. I’m thinking of trying to sue but don’t know how I can prove this, unless I can prove it’s not even possible which I don’t think it is. But wondering if anyone’s seen this happen. What’s really messed up is that the tank I pulled from only had 10 feet 6 inches in it so the most one could get out of it is maybe 185 barrels, so impossible to overfill a 200 barrel trailer. But the smart people in the office wouldn’t listen when I told them that.

 

No I didn’t take pics , I didn’t think they’d can me at the time. This happened in West Texas, now I’m back home in California thinking I’d just get a local tank job and move on. But most won’t hire me after seeing this on my DAC. I try to explain but nobody believes me. It’s terrible when you know your innocent and yet. NObody will believe you. A court of law may be my only chance but how could I prove this ?

 

I’ve thought about writing a letter to the owner of the company and hopefully he investigates and realizes that overfilling 185 barrels of oil in a crude tanker isn’t possible. And hopefully he doesn’t want to go to court and pay to fight me when he can rectify the situation just by removing this from my DAC.

But if anyone has ever experienced an overfill type of spill I’d love to know if I’m correct that’ll just come out of the vapor line.

In the meantime guess I’ll start calling lawyers and see if I have a case.