Tanker companies that hire recent graduates

shouldn't it be easier for rookies to learn how to drive tanker

hear me out, Tanker is hard work especially with the surging. so if a driver is learning how to avoid surge and able to compensate his (her) driving for it won't it be easier when they get out and drive a reefer/van?

 

I would think so.

 

Ha, I just pulled that old food grade tanker into Reserve, LA. Bet it's the same one. Yep he will get a service failure for that one. Gotta read the work assignment driver. Though I do excuse the glue smell, a lot of trailers have a smell and I have never been rejected because of it.

 

I honestly don't know what happens. I have never had a service failure. If a tank reeks I agree it isn't clean but just a slight smell is not that uncommon.

 

ah yes, wouldn't that suck to get a svc failure over labor you performed at no charge? Lol.

Especially when the seal eyelets have been beat to a stump from guys smashing washout caps (and everything within 6" of them) with a hammer. Or when you're at Kankakee tank wash, where you're no longer allowed on top of the trailer ,, and you have to pull out on the street to seal the top. And then get up the road to rohm n haus/Dow/whatever without being early or late. By the time you hook the trailer, seal it, get in and out, you've spent 1-2 hrs and didn't get paid one cent. Then get a svc failure if a seal isn't right

 

If we had to get a trailer rewashed it would be forty bucks for the supervised wash. If it took three hours add another 10, so fifty total. Plus you could probably get 25 for the trailer move, plus miles. I have never spent hours working on a trailer but if I did I could probably get either detention pay or company business pay. So anywhere from 65 to 100 bucks. But usually if we find a trailer that bad we just call in and get a new one assigned.


Obviously I wasn't there so I don't know the whole story but a driver is supposed to check to make sure all the prep is done properly.