The Fuel Hauler Thread

1203 covers the flashpoint of diesel. I never changed to 1993.

 

Well, got a couple of cards so far and have plenty of work to do out of those terminals. Out on my own now. This gas hauling should whip me into shape pretty quick. Either that or it will just plain whip me, lol. I knew I was out of shape but not this bad...

Oh yeah, did I mention it is nice being home every day and off on the weekends?!

 

^ yea dude I did M-F day shift and off weekends. It was pretty sweet although I started at 2 am... Day shift or graveyard?? Haha

 

When the sprinklers come on at the same exact time you open your product valve......

 

I've been told that one doesn't have to change placards to 1993 on a diesel load, unless you load it two consecutive times. The reason being, that when you load that 2nd load of diesel, any gasoline vapors in the vapor rail, are captured by the vapor recovery hose at the rack, and then the flash point would be consistent with UN1993, as opposed to UN1203. Is this correct? I never switch placards unless I have 2 consecutive loads of all diesel.

 

You'll get used to it. It's a LOT of work at first. But just develop and implement a routine, and never divert from it. It will be all muscle memory soon enough. Trace those lines back to the tank 3 times before you pull that butterfly valve and release the product. Before you know it, you'll be leaving the station 31 minutes after pulling in. The satisfaction I get in this job, is emptying such an insane amount of product in such a short period of time. And the routine is key to success. Just do it exactly the same way, all the time.

There are strategies to mitigate the physical work involved. For example, draining the hoses. If you have the end of the hose fairly well drained, you can leave it almost completely full of gasoline when putting the hose away if you stay hooked up to the ground tank, and work the hose back into the box on the tanker. This will let the hose drain while you put it away, and it cuts out the tedious lifting aspect you find while walking out the hoses.

God, I hate walking out the hoses. I get assigned to every random piece of crap truck lately, and they're all different. Some of these things like to air lock in the last 50 gallons or so, and I find myself lifting a fully charged hose over, and over, and over, and over, trying to get this to drain.

 

31 minutes?

 

For me a full gas load is 11400 I've never been done in less than 45.

 

You guys are carrying about 3k more than we can legally carry in California. That would probably add about 10 minutes to your product flow delivery time, even if you're fast at hooking up hoses and identifying all tanks.

Yeah, the fastest I've done a station, was a full load of regular to Costco. Two hoses into two sets of 87 tanks, no waiting for the veedor root, and they started opening the fills for me immediately upon arrival. No sticking the tanks, either. It was about 25 minutes "ON DUTY" time, from the time I got out of the truck, till the time I got back in and began my reconciliation and sent a departure message on Qualcomm.

 

I had one I could do in 26-28 min. 4k regular in the bathtub, trailer center compartment diesel(800g). After Diesel, 1800 premium. The premium and regular would finish just about the same time then I'd hook up the premium hose to the regular tank and open up the last compartment of regular (1800g). Tanks would be stuck before and after during unloading.