tanker wages discussion

10 years experience seems excessive

These are private fleet offerings.

In my market this is what it takes to get whom you want applying for the job. In one of these jobs you hauled flammables and corrosives in multiple compartments. Mix the two and your going to get undesired results , tank solidification and a possible explosion.

In cryogenics, if you dont do your job you can kill people. Do you want JB pulling liquid hydrogen? How about when a contractor hammered a nitrogen connection onto an oxygen tank, yep that happened. Fortunately he wasn't at a hospital BUT he shut down a chemical plant........

JMO

 

Well I run mostly southern californa and reload in longbeach. But it's a good gig.. I really like my job. Home every other night most of the time and every weekend.

 

Current scale (LA Metro IBT scale) 23.80 an hour..end of contract in 3 years 27.25. The "standards" can pay more if you want to play "let's beat the clock"..Drivers here average 75-95K, some a bit more, but they like to work, I don't. Cryogenic tankers..Chalupa hit it on the head again.Loved the part about "JB" and the LH2...still laughing. That's the day I leave this business and any freeways with them on it..lol I don't think they could afford the insurance..

 

And actually before the CGA changed all the fittings to different styles in the 80's that actually happened at a hospital in Louisiana...Argon into a lox tank by a new driver for a company that starts with a "JB"...Killed a few people on ventilators..

 

Best job I ever had was company driver pulling food grade tanks for Indian River Transport back in 2002. I don't remember the pay scale, but I was making about $60K/year. They had the trucks turned up to 75 mph, and all the runs were 2000 miles or better. Never regretted having a day off between loads, because I knew the next load would max out my logbook. Good equipment, reasonable load/unload times; if only I could do it over again...