I am strongly considering getting in to liquid hazmat tanker OTR driving. I already have the tanker endorsement and the hazmat endorsement. I am curious as to what types of liquid hazmat are hauled across the country. I suspect that diesel and gasoline are typically hauled less than 200 miles because I think that there are almost always oil refineries within 200 miles of any location. I believe that crude oil is usually transported in pipelines. So I don't think that many trucks are hauling crude oil long distances from the drilling locations to oil refineries.
So what types of liquid hazmat are typically hauled by semi-trucks pulling liquid tankers on distances of, say, 500 miles or more?
What types of liquid hazmat are hauled cross-country?
Discussion in 'Tanker, Bulk and Dump Trucking Forum' started by expedite_it, Apr 1, 2023.
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You actually got some pretty good answers to that qtn in this earlier thread:
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If you are thinking about doing OTR with hazmat tanker....I suggest you go ahead, and give it a try (unless your current gig is just too super-sweet).
If you don't....later on, you will look back, and wonder...what might have been.
The freight is certainly there....that's for sure.
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"lubricants, Shell, Valvoline, BP, etc to oil distributors and auto/machinery manufacturers"
"lots of bulk commodities travel long distances"
"We haul AvGas all over the south east"
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I worked for Quality Carriers out of Nashville. We pulled loads for one dedicated customer, various phospheric acids. I went to each area of the country. We had a regular load that wrnt from Nashville to San Francisco and came back empty. Ditto for Bangor, ME.
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