Rookie looking for first job wants tanker co. recommendations

Also a rookie and i want to be a tanker always r

 

Talk to Schneider; they have tanker for newbies.
Check with concrete companies & ask which tanker companies deliver their dry bulk cement powder to them.

Put some applications in online & maybe you will be accepted:
Quality Distribution
Superior Carriers
TribeTransport

For LTL check Craigslist & Careerbuilder & Panther Expedite.

 

Pyles Transport - Nashville, TN - Dry bulk tanker - cement & fly ash.
Highway Transport
Schwerman - Nashville & Chattanooga
Tankstar
Pilot-Flying J

Many other tanker companies. You should have no trouble finding a good driving job with tankers.
Ask around; there's a company that hauls deisel and fuels the train engines at the rail yard. One of those drivers told me they run him ragged, but he makes real good money.

 

DO NOT WORK FOR TANK STAR I was bent over hard


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I do not care if your born and raised around trucks, you need the actual experience of driving a non moving load before you move into liquids. I have been driving long enough to accumulate over 3 million miles, and I can tell you from being experienced at powder, liquid tankers you need to learn and get experience with loads that do not move before moving into do not stop moving. fuel tankers do not surge as bad as a smooth bore, but they still have their own handling problems. By the way My grandfather and my Dad were both retired trucker, I was taught by my Dad how to drive, that does not replace experience, it certainly adds to it, but not replacing being there.

 

I 100% agree with you but it sounds like he has his mind made up and knows more then us


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There are exceptions to every rule. Sometimes drivers going straight to tankers can be an advantage. They can actually be SAFER drivers. They haven't developed any bad habits yet and they don't come into driving a tanker with the familiar handling of a van or flatbed. They learn from jump the safest way to handle a dangerous truck and when and if they switch to van or flatbed they can be much safer drivers than those coming straight in with no previous experience as they were trained on a tanker with less room for error. Obviously this doesn't apply to all situations but it does apply to some.

 

Good luck to ya


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