The Fuel Hauler Thread

For sure. If my current dispatcher gets on me about late loads again, I'll just play dumb. I mean for the longest time, the general consensus was getting the milk tankers loads to the given plant before the date/time on the wash tag expired. She rode a bunch of us last year for not following the schedule made by the co-op. And the plants still took our loads to be dropped following the wash-tag time anyway. Got to get back into that riding/hard walking habit.

Of course there's just ride in complete silence and stare/read the billboards like kids did back in the 70s/80s. Sink into my deep thoughts about how hard I want to go on my next model railroad layout build. And if my cat destroyed it again!!!

 

Please tell me you did that with a straight truck, or a straight truck and pup trailer. No way in hell would I attempt that with a daycab and a 4 or 5 compartment semitrailer.

 

Yes straight truck with pup trailer, or truck and trailer as we call them. Same truck as in my profile picture. To do it in a semi you would have to back in off the street and do it like this:

 

That one would be noted in the file as "After hours delivery only". It took us a while but we finally got most of our station operators dialed in to night time deliveries.

 

Like Richmond or Oakland in the mid 70s? I was working for a fuel company out of Chico and they sent some of us to Richmond for a couple of weeks. We were supposed to be doing Oakland and SFO airports but we'd cover anything they gave us.
The terminal manager took great care to remind us that carrying a gun in the truck was against company policy. He also took great care to let us know, without ever actually saying it, that nobody was going to search us or look through our brief case etc.
We got the message.
Cutting Avenue in Richmond could turn into a battle zone real quick. I've almost always carried a gun when I'm working but Richmond and Oakland were the only places I felt a gun might really be necessary.

 

They very briefly ran some semis, you might have already been gone by then, this is after they got rid of the red trucks and switched to the white ones. I think they had them for like a year or two and then I stopped seeing them.