Tankers and scales?

I know that. That's why I put quotes around it and added LOL.

 

You got it, that's def your first sign to think the situation out further, and not just to trust someones word even if they're the "trainer" ( =

Glad you came here and asked around atleast....

I'm like some of the other guys, I never get out of my truck without the brakes engaged.

 

this trainer worries me alot.

I think if this situation happened to me, I would go to someone higher than him, and nicely ask about telling new tanker yankers not to set the brakes. I wonder if they know he is training like this.

never, ever get out of the truck without brakes set. we do not need another story about a runaway truck. ( but you know this already)

 

A BALANCE BEAM? Where?![/QUOTE]


You mean you ain't seen a scale with the balance beam in the scale house? C&H in Crockett, CA has a real old one propped up with a block of wood because its about ready to fall over. Some of the fertilizer plants out here still have them. Many of the feedlots I unload at still have them. Some places have converted to a digital readout but still use the same old scale.

 

When I worked at Aviation Fuels in '84 I mostly hauled JetA. Avgas would leave trash in the tank. When I loaded at Belcher in Port Canaveral they would wash me out with kerosine before loading with JetA. That was the only place that inspected us. They would do a visual.

Only place I toploaded!

Just think if you had trash in the fuel line in an airliner? Or tampered with?

 

Here's one that didn't set their brakes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1b3jxbO920&feature=related

 

I'm sorry...how in the heck does someone "FORGET" to set their brake? Come on!!!