It's not random , you threw some trash in my front yard.....and you drive for the pumpkin....how should I respond?
I guess????? What are you harping on, take the time and actually type a little. I match the what the bill says to the tag on the valve and make sure my work assignment matches both. Come on and tell me how stupid I am and how I don't know what I am doing. Tell me how much better your way is.
I think he was trying to maybe suggest that we have a no haul list and that you would have to verify against that to make sure you aren't hauling a prohibited chemical.
I'll say. The haul no haul list is pretty straight forward if that's what he was talking about. I thought he was trying to say that every time he loads haz he looks it all up in the book and checks everything. Which I was going to call b.s. on.
Not only that, he also takes it straight to the lab and does a full analysis to make sure the chemical is not tainted in the slightest amount
A driver actually getting assigned a load that is prohibited is rare. I have only heard of it happening once. I would look up any packing group 1's though. Or anything poisonous, radioactive, explosive, etc. But I have never had anybody even attempt to load anything prohibited on me.
Lets not get chippy in here. For all we know Chalupa may work for Nalco and took issue with your initial post. If a product is hazmat there are specific chemical names that must be on the bill of laden to meet DOT regulations. Your post right before the disagreement implied that Nalco does not do that.
OK ethos I saw several tankers here at Gary tonight and two questions popped into my head that I have to ask: How does the tank wash work? Does it clean up a tank that had been used to haul some kind of hazardous waste to the point where the next product hauled in that tank could be something food-grade? What happens if your engine decides that it needs to perform a regen while you are running the PTO for your pump?
A tank wash simply cleans the tank so that it can haul other kinds of chemicals. You cant mix chemicals and we have no idea what the next load will be, just like you guys. Once a trailer has hauled chemicals it can never haul anything food grade again. We have no food grade business. Some of these chemicals are really hard to clean. Like Floc for instance, which we call snot. Imagine a tankfull of snot, the sticky kind. Takes some heavy cleaning to get all that residual out. Basically a tank wash is turning a dirty tank back into a clean one. Clean, dry and odor free is a tankers mantra. If you showed up at a shipper with a dirty tank you would not like the result. As far as the regen that has never happened to me. If it did I suppose I would have to shut down the load and let it do its thing and then restart the unload.
