The Fuel Hauler Thread

We figured the gallons and cents per mile. For a company driver (one that is employed by the company selling the gas) a figure of 160 miles was the cut off. That meant that after 160 miles it was cheaper for the company to hire an outside company to haul their load. With that figure everything was included to reach that mile post. Cost of the driver, cost of the truck, cost of the benefits to the driver, and all other cost associated with that load including advertising. Of course all that's gone now since the majors have sold most of their downstream (trucks, loading racks, and stations) operations. There were two figures a major oil company would look at. Cents per mile and dollars per hour. My company did anyway and what one did the others followed. Cents per mile were the cost of the truck. Everything it took to get that truck load ready was figured. Maintenance of the truck, permits, licensing, insurance, 2 or 3 million in bond for the loading rack if the loading rack was a common carrier, and so on. Dollars per hour were all the cost that the driver accrued. Hourly wage, all benefits, and any cost the driver had for that run. It's been a while so I could have them backwards but that's basically how they did it.

 

It is calculated per gallon, with a certain minimum charge. The per-gallon rate increases as the mileage increases.

 

Hey guys thought I'd say what's up, I'm 23 been hauling fuel for 6months and loving it

 

Welcome aboard young man

 

Thanks

 

Thanks just doing what I love to do, been wanting to driv trucks since I was 5, started driving when I was 21 then got interested in tankers some how and here I am lol also I been driving school bus since I was 18 and still do part time when I'm not driving trucks young hard worker over here lol

 

Wow that's good bro yeah I know what u mean its been paying off for me too

 

The biggest shock about this aspect of trucking, was how involved it really is. Driving the truck is the easy part. You have to seriously bust some behind to throw out 2 hoses and offload all that product into the right hole, dealing with these customers... it's some serious physical work sometimes.

It was being discussed that, why would someone want to steal a $20k load of gas, and then it was stated that perhaps someone would want to do a lot of damage quickly... which would allude to a terrorist kind of situation. I was thinking about this, and wondering why no books have been written on the subject of hauling fuel; with illustrations of all the fittings, procedures for pumping and loading, just a general bible of sorts for this particular industry. I was thinking about it and , was wondering what you guys think. Do you think some kind of guide like that would help aspiring fuel haulers; or would that kind of information be more abused by people with bad intentions. The last thing we'd want is a lunatic lone-wolf stealing a load of fuel, knowing how to open the internals and valves and releasing 8600 gallons of poison into the ecosystem. What do you guys think.