Tanker Driver Job Ads

Tanker moves slower than dry van so 600 mile days don't happen. Typically 330 miles - 400 miles is a normal day for moving tanker loads. At sixty cents, that's not enough money.

 

Where I work pays day rate plus safety bonus & no accessory pay. I'm good with my pay at this company, for now. My food grade oil tanker averages 330 - 400 mpd and that's if I have a longer trip on highway routes. More often, I'm traveling in traffic & slower roadways for atleast portions of the trips. I am seeing job ads offering $0.60 a mile for tanker, stating 16 hour days. They are not offering enough driver pay even though their rates have not been reduced. My post is trying to warn drivers who are thinking about going tanker.

 

In August I flew to Houston to visit my my son and on my drive back to the airport, I stopped at KAG on I-10 to talk to them. Since I have TWIC & Passport, they said the Beaumont TX terminal might be better for me because they do longer runs and Canada trips. (I love driving in Canada.) Rumors are going around they might be buying my company so I wanted to meet them and check out the terminal. I live in the NE atm, but plan to eventually relocate back in Houston so I thought it worth a visit. I know a tanker driver who switched from my company to Highway in Freeport TX and does 'out & back' and I like his schedule & he's making decent money working for them. But KAG is definitely worth investigating further. I may be a girl, but I'm an exceptional driver -- most of my coworkers would tell you they would trust me with pre-trips over 99% of the men working at our company. I have a construction background & was a biz owner with Graco line striping equipment so I have experience in maintaining my own equipment. Anyhow, we're all out to do a job and I just wanted to let drivers thinking about doing tanker to know that $0.60 a mile offer is terrible and not worth their time.