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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;meechyaboy, post: 11412983, member: 225438&quot;]Wow I’m late but what everyone else said was spot on start slow speed comes later.</p><p>Double check everything that Goes for your&gt;</p><p>Orders, your truck/trailer on pretrip, make sure everything has gaskets get 5 hose gaskets and 5 hog nose gaskets especially if you’re gonna be truck hopping. Before you leave a station tap your tanks with a stick to verify that they are hollow. As mentioned above you can be distracted or just having a bad day and pull a handle with out opening a fire valve-this is a last check to make sure you are empty. Also drain down everytime you pull into the rack- even though you just tapped your tank at the station Cya for the cameras in the event something happens/ first load out if slip seating your codriver may not have drained down. If you can’t drain down first load cut the compartments back&gt;its you that get locked out if anything happens.</p><p>Get a veeder root and triple check the address.. we got multiple stations with variations of the same name in different cities. Double check the order before you leave the address should be on the building and on the veeder root.</p><p>Make sure it fits before you pull the handle.</p><p>dispatch may say things like “it should fit” or “it’s what they ordered” or we’re getting a bad reading. That’s what the veeder root is for , your company should supply a tank chart book. If not ask some drivers at the rack if they have some tank chart books. Talk to other drivers 99% of them are pretty cool, if anything ever comes up they’ll let you know about it</p><p>Another thing that can speed up the learning curve is getting all the&nbsp; other drivers numbers and calling them everyday until you have the main stations down. You can look at google maps but this is earth . Unless you’ve been there the other drivers know things you wouldn’t have thought of and what to watch for&gt;we have stations that have multiple entrances on google maps only for them to have the second entrance closed off now so you have to pull in setting up to back out onto the street. As well as here we have frost law routes in the spring that they live ticketing for but don’t want to put out maps for.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lastly cone up and speak up. If you don’t want civilians walking or driving by it... cone it off. If you don’t cone it off they will do the stupid thing that you didn’t want them to do 100% of the time. And Speak up be proactive. You saw that guy pull in with the cigarette in his lips parking and he has to walk past your fills to get to the store. Give him a second to get out but if he walks forward let him know because “he forgot” “his bad, he don’t know what he was thinking”, and my all time favorite especially in tiny stations “I didn’t see the gas truck”</p><p>When you get good at doing stations and know all your fills park to protect yourself.if you can pull in to always face to inside of the station do it that way therefore you can see any potential threat and that you’re always on camera. We get a lot of idiots that fly into the parking lot doing 20-30 mph. If you can turn your truck at the last second instead of lining up straight do it for example&gt;&gt;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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