tank unloading

99% its me loading/ unloading. I pull a vacuum tanker which usually involves dragging hoses 10' to 200' in distance just to load.

 

YOU will LOAD AND UNLOAD by yourself 99.9 percent of the time. I have yet to have someone do it for me. The most I had was someone punch in the numbers for me. Also as an o/o I really wouldn't trust anyone else to do it. So get ready to pull those hoses through any weather.

 

Well with my carrier. I load 90% and at unload I am only responsible for opening the dome lid. Customer does all the unloading. I don't carry hoses either. Customer has them also.
Guess it just depends who you work for what your hauling and what the customer requires.

 

This many sound like a stupid quesition but I will ask anyway..

I am thinking of going through tanker once I get my CDL. Is there a lot of math involved with loading or unloading a product? Or do you just have to know PSIs and such? I know there is more to it then just attaching hoses..

 

A long time ago I worked at a chemical plant and we did almost all the unloading except the nitrogen. I guess it's who you work for and where you go. You get to fooling with hazmat there are different liabilities. A driver might be well trained in the product but he might not know the customer's tank farm, tank level and pipe configuration. Those cases it's better for the operator to handle it.

Something dedicated where the driver knows the customers operation is different.

Off hand I can just think of simple math like figuring weight per gallon. But if you haul the same stuff over and over you know what you can do.

The same with measuring tanks you might do some simple math.

 

Basically chemical guys don't have to load . Unloading is about 50/50 if the driver unloads.

Gas guys load and unload everything ..... And there is some math involved .

 

Hauling milk, the receiver does everything 99% of the time. Some dairies want the driver to hook the hose to the trailer, but no big deal, the hose is right there and all the driver does is to basically screw it to the valve. A "farm p/u trailer" has a pump on it and it is the driver's responsibility to clean the pump while the trailer is being pumped off, but this only take a few minutes.

 

Been hauling gas, diesel, kero since 1987 and never had anyone load or unload anything for me in all that time ... not sure I'd want them to ... not with me taking responsibility for everything ... if something is gonna get screwed up, I'll be the one that did it ... not taking the blame for someone else ... period.