How a Fuel Truck Delivers to a TruckStop
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- This video shows a little bit about how I deliver fuel at my job to the customers we service.
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Just one of the many thankless jobs that keep society moving. Thank you for what you do, and stay safe out there.
Joshua Langley Thank you Joshua, I appreciate that
LeacH Torrent why be so rude? People like this guy keep the world turning. It takes less effort to say nothing or thank you then it does to be a prick.
Why be so nasty? without trucks or the People that drive them, you would be butt ass naked cold homeless and hungry. now go rethink your comments!
Tech will NEVER replace a Human being to do the work. Never, so give this whole AI should do everything bullshit a rest! Because a ROBOT CAN'T REPLACE ME!
LeacH Torrent he wasnt raised like you.
LeacH torrent seems like an angry sexually frustrated basement dweller but he has a point. The future of trucking is with artificial intelligence. Just look at the Tesla Semi’s which will require less human interfacing. Eventually we’ll replace truckers with fully autonomous AI but until then, we have to respect these hardworking men & women.
3 years ago I was at home 19 years old at the time, and was watching this video, thinking to my self, with no CDL at the time, one day I’ll be a fuel hauler. Fast forward 3 years later I’m hauling fuel for Gemini or better know for Loves truck
stop. I remember telling my self I’ll never be this successful, I gave my self to Christ and couldn’t of done it with out him. Please keep posting these videos I really enjoy the content lol. Congratulations on being a owner operator!
Man I'm so thankful for your comment. I'll put up more videos soon for sure, I appreciate you and I hope you have a safe one!
@@DrtyDiesel yes sir! You be safe out there from these Class C holders!
Amen
Instead of using that stick to see fuel level, try lighting a match through the opening so you can see down there
Raul M Lmfao right
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Agreed!
Lol
Idiot
*Electric cars have left the chat*
Lol its alright, we deliver millions of gallons of diesel every winter to power plants that power their charging cables 😂
@@DrtyDiesel lmao
DrtyDiesel and they call their cars ‘clean’.
At least the power coming from the diesel is cheaper than what gas stations charge
lol
I've always wondered how this gets done. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity haha
Pretty interesting. Every week I pump 15 gallons of Diesel into my car and never put much thought into how it gets there. I salute you, sir. Just another one of those guys in the background that makes modern society possible.
I just got into hauling fuel and I am enjoying it. Everything you've shown in this video helped explained it even better to me. Thank you
Glad i could help! Be safe out there bud!
Is the pay good?
Thanks for taking the time to film and upload this. I've always been curious how all this works. Be safe!
Alex Rowland , no problem :)
I’ve been the the oil business for almost 20 years. Started on the dock with Chevron, then got my CDL and drove flatbed and bobtails for a few years, then tankers delivering to stations for around 10. Then I moved into a dispatch position and now an operations manager. You did everything perfectly. If you ever move to Southern California and need a job look me up. I’m always looking for quality drivers. Respect trucks drivers folks!
I live in So. Cal and need a job. Need to support my family
lol just a troll
he did not. empty means empty. when you mark compartments empty and there not. you are going to leave a compartment full and not know it. then when you go back to get your next load you will over fill that EMPTY compartment. we all know what happens then. duh
@@jimblake8601 if you load right and your sculley is working then nothing happens because the scully is designed for that exact reason.
@@MrBertjones then you can't fill none of the other tanks because the scully.
I opened this video so that I can feel the smell of petrol :)
Feel the smell? How do you feel the smell of something.
@@chezitswood7326 Synesthesia
@@Jemalacane0 the effect or phenomenon popped into my head, but i was afraid i couldn't figure out how to t spell it thanks mike
Love the smell.... 🙂🙃
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I tried to do that job. Embarrassing low pay for the liability and skill required. OTR heavy haulers pull $1800 a week, and still less liability and less exposure to chemicals that can cause major issues later in life, for only $1000-$1200 a week. Not to mention 12/12/5 or 6 day scheduling. It's a hard, underpaid, underappreciated job you're doing there my friend.
JaDo Steele Underpaid? My dad makes 70 grand a year hauling fuel and is home every day.
James Smith I guess it depends on where you live. I live in Iowa so...
Depends on the company really. They all change with how much you get paid per mile, how many miles you actually have to go to get there, etc
skill??
Really?1000$ a week is underpaid job?wow.. I get 8£(10$) an hour for my job and I'm a care attendant so I make 300£ a week. And it's a hard and stressful job. I wish I get paid 1000$a week....
Why not light up a cigarette while waiting so you don't get bored
xviper03 tf!😂😂
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Your so dumb. Bc smoking is bad for your body . Duhh
Y'all don't get the joke.
grumpy oldfart lol
Nice video
I've never seen fuel delivery from a that close point of view...
Interesting to see something different from standard unloading ;)
Mike Galauch glad you liked it! :)
How do you measure how much fuel you are giving them? Is it just empty a full compartment and you know you gave them all the gallons that that compartment holds? What if someone old needs 400 gallons of premium' how would you "meter out" 400 gallons. I'm assuming you fill up your truck and then go and make a bunch of deliveries. Is that accurate, or is it more like "fill truck for next delivery, bring that, then return for another filling of truck?' Thanks for the video, it was interesting.
Mike Galauch i
+forseeit each tank at gas station can only hold a certain amount of gas usually they can fill each section in one run
Mike Galauch jtt
This video just answered a question i never even knew i had
I remember a long time ago I did these calculations to know how long it would last me if I stole the truck..
9200 gallons...
My car gets 20 MPG, that would get you drive 184,000 miles....and if I drove 15k miles a year, it would last over 12 years. If you get 30mpg, that goes to 18 years..
I'm gonna need a lot of STA-BIL
I also remember calculating how many tiles were in the mid town tunnel while sitting in traffic. I don't remember the number , but it was in the millions. #nerd
Oh my god we need one
I just need the diesel
Gas goes bad
chris corona
Kerosene doesn’t tho
I drive a Chevrolet volt, I fill it with gas like once every 2-3 months..... that truck could last me like a 100 years! :P
Very cool. Thanks for helping to keep America moving! I'm gonna pay attention to the number of lids at gas stations from now on.
Nate Scheblo heh
Causing climate change
If you ban fossil fuels or people stop selling/delivering them the world would stop working, whole economies would collapse. We don't have the resources yet to be fully renewable so your comment seth was both short-sighted and incorrect.
@@Aria18976 and we've been using fossil fuel since the Gold rush back in 1849
@@gaugejaramilo512 same
yes ill make a tour of my truck and trailer video. just have to wait until i have free time with the truck stationary.
Trucks and Guns q😍
Trucks and Guns qrjd
Trucks and Guns what's your take home pay bring a tanker driver? Home daily?
DrtyDiesel question about low grade and mid grade fuel. You said it’s just a mixture of two. So I can fill up my car for less money buying low grade fuel, but still getting mixed mid grade since it’s all out of the same tank?
@@dohc1974 mid grade is regular and premium mixed. Regular, or low grade, is perfectly fine for your vehicle. If you get mid grade or premium and your engine's computer is not setup to run on premium or mid grade, then youll be wasting money. Honestly as cliche as it may sound, use whatever fuel your owners manual says to.
Great vid, I did fuel for 4 years untill I got tired of the shitty schedules that come with. I got payed by the load so you know that 87 would be running first. Also you were trained correct. Everything you did was dead on. My uncle hauled fuel for 44 years and he trained me so yea I know my shit. Good to see another fuel driver doing it the right way. Have a good 1
Great video. Only thing I see that I’d imagine you would get into a lot of trouble with is if you crashed by chance and the rescuers look at you’re trailer and see that the tank identifiers say empty and there is gas in them. You’d be in a lot of trouble
No, first responders would go by the placards. Regardless of what the petro dials say
I maintained a truck license for 43 years hauling Propane and Butane for 10 of those years. The truck and trailers are more dangerous when they are empty than when they are full. The empty tanks are full of vapor that is allot easier to ignite than a tank full of liquid. Granted gasoline will ignite pretty easy but the vapor in the tank already has oxygen blended in it and will flash quite easy!!
@@DrtyDiesel yup. Placards are for the public and responders.
Fuel dials are for yourself
SO you mean the gas stations been screwing me when I could have my 24 gallon tank filled under 1 second?
making me wait 3 min to fill it up
punker4Real 4” hose is almost twice the flow rate of a 3” hose.
LoL. a wee little fire extinguisher. hahaha. if SHTF during a delivery procedure that fire extinguisher would be like having a wooden spoon as your main weapon to fight King Kong.
gmctech , haha you got that right! If SHTF im runnin!
This is a very dangerous job. The most danger is an accident while driving, which is something that happens. It takes very little in the way of an accident to light that up, and once that happens you're dead. It usually takes overturning the rig, but on loops and ramps it happens often enough.
There are regs I drove a 8 thousand gallon jet tanker we had 2 20lbs abs fire bottles
Like I tell people, the fire extinguisher is just safety requirements, if everything goes sideways I’m gone. At that point it’s just a projectile in an explosion!
soundspark exactly. I had a wheel seal and bearing replaced on a driver. The mechanic overtightened the bearing. The bearing heated up, leaked oil and caught on fire with 4,000 gallons of gasoline onboard. That one fire extinguisher was enough to put the tire fire out long enough to get water on it from a nearby stream.
This job is so under appreciated. I'm glad you guys make tons of money tho. I've asked the guys and SoCal drivers make around 100K a year.
Rosie M thanks for the positive feedback it feels good to know that people do pay attention to those things especially coming from a female which most just care about there nails and can care less how the world turns or how there able to enjoy those finer things in life without any of this 🤓good looking out !!😏
They're still never home and put up with traffic. Btw, 100k is now almost a min. requirement to just get an apartment in SoCal.
Edit: health issues from exposure - removed.
100k in SoCal is poverty slave wages.
@@MR-nl8xr Home daily. California fuel haulers are nearly all unionized and make well over 100k.
Exposure to what? Our tanks and connections are sealed. We get more exposure fueling our personal vehicles.
@@saintchuck9857 ok, but you are not the majority, so what happens to you is irrelevant to what happens to others and what others do.
Yea, i know, i said that already.
When I was in High school, I worked nights at a privately owned gas station pumping gas. Most times the tanker would pull into the station on my shift to drop a delivery that my boss ordered. I remember him telling me: "If there is extra Regular left on the truck, tell the driver to dump it into the Premium tank! This happened almost every time!
+service1956 This must have been a very long time ago because gas stations are now regulated. The gasoline, pumps, and many other things are randomly tested at least once every few years by state officials.
Thanks for fucking up my high compression motor
yeah that will mess up some cars now-a-days if he still does that. Everything is becoming high compression.
Right. Random testing once every three years is really going to catch that. (and if they do, they can blame the delivery driver, who you conveniently have on video doing it.) Doing that these days will just ensure you don't have any customers that actually require premium gas as their car will run like shit with your 91.5 blended "93".
Still happens today. Stationed are tested for gal accuracy not octane. I've been delivery fuel for the last 18 years. It still happens every day.
I bet that fresh gasoline smells so good! :)
Leaded gasoline smells way better!
I promise you, if you work with it long enough you'll grow to hate it.
The best is ethanol
@Chistopher lewis thats so true. Todays unleaded ethanol stinks bad compared to the older pump gasoline from the 1970's. Today's gas is corrosive to most vehicles built before 2002 and all motorcycles, Recreational vehicles, small engine types such as lawn mower, chainsaw, generators etc. There's many who will vote for the newer fuels however, it causes so much expense and maintenance to the older fuel systems and small engines.
smells like shit with the ethanol. Gas use to smell good in pure state
Great video! I always wondered how this worked. For those wondering why the trailer Only Holds 10K gallons, gas is 6* to the gallon, so 60,000 lbs on the trailer, plus the cab and weight of the trailer brings it to the legal GVWR of 88,000 lbs.
my trailer maxes out at 9200 gallons, a legal load for me is 8800 gallons of gas max and 7700 gallons of diesel for max
It's called compression
Legal weight is 80,000 not 88,000. Same thing here at my company. Truck holds 9200 but 8800 regular gas and 7700 diesel puts me at the legal limit.
Nasim Wehbe some states if you stay off the interstate and within the state line you can run higher gross I believe Alabama is 88000
For here in North Carolina, im not sure about conventional loads, but livestock loads going directly from the farm to the processing plant are given an even higher limit all the way up to 94,000lbs but you have to be going directly to the kill site and you can't take interstates.
Great upload man thanks! Awesome seeing this from your end!
OKCMoto glad you liked it!
how about loading at the refinery . cool
most racks if all will not allow any electrical devices in if caught the driver might get locked out or worst an explosion
Yeah i cant film at the loading rack, too dangerous and against the rules.
forcedout1 it's been proven the cell phones won't cause an explosion
Adam Brydon hdhtxbx8xbdy
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Me at 8 pm: I’m gonna go to bed early tonight
Me at 3 30 am: Sees a recommendation about how the fuel is delivered and watched it.
Lmfao 😂
3:21 lol
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I would love to win a full truck like that and park it next to my Challenger... I filled up at least twice a week 😬
Rt or scat
Dcd 180
Just a regular RT+ but I use it for driving from my house and work, I work at sf so it’s like an hour drive, tbh it’s a good daily driver, maybe I’ll upgrade to a Hellcat or redeye if I ever want that extra power for the weekend 😂
HardcorrDays i drive a scatpack, i never let it get below 3/4 tank, i spend like $30 a week on gas
john l
Where do you live?
HardcorrDays florida
You guys don't need to Earth? How do you prevent static build up and electric ignition risks
You need to earth of course
There's a copper wire that runs through the hose that ground the trailer to the tank I'm unloading into.
NIce. Just watched a video of someone loading oil into a tanker and he had to ground his tanker with an external wire. I suppose this is safer as static can build up locally :)
Where I work we both use grounding hoses and special grounding wires on reels, we have had fires from the filling pipes on gas stations from static so now it's double safety on everything, grounding both ran through the filling hoses and externally.
Shazzkid you should earth but some don't they will learn
Do you normally deliver one entire load of fuel in the trailer compartment to one store/customer??
Normally yes.
Very helpful when teaching my grandson! So he knows how it works! We let him know how important it is to respect truck drivers, and don’t ever pull out in front of you all. Plus you all go for hours and hours, with little sleep. I taught my kids the same way, as my grandfather taught me, respect the road, especially the truck drivers. God bless!
Thank you! God bless you too!
Wow some of the comments are so amusing that makes me wonder if i should call a mental health department for some of you to get help!
For some odd reason, I started smelling gasoline
Lol right
Very interesting about the midgrade fuel! Thanks
I feel like all that shut is the same they just have a way to make extra money from us cause it's been tested time after time that Premium has no greater results on all types of vehicles
50 degrees in FL make sure you have the winter blend lol jk good job.
Kendall Robinson dumbass
Ricky Mendoza it was a joke dumbass 50 degrees in fl it cold to them like winter... hint (jk) = just kidding
Kendall Robinson people just gotta be dicks lol
LOL RIGHT! We do cut back on the Bio-Diesel blend int he winter time though
What winter in FL? We run bio down to probably around 40* and even all year to MN customers because of a state bio mandate.
Never buy premium fuel unless your car specifically requires it and is stated in the manual. The cheap stuff will work just fine
I agree 100%. People think premium is better or cleaner just because it costs more, definitely not true.
@@DrtyDiesel Right it only runs better if your engine has a higher compression, all it does it prevent the fuel from premature ignition due to pressure. People think octane = horses when in reality it doesn't. I mean hey, more money for the gas stations..
@@SuperPyro pretty much lol
Or if you got a high octane tune on your car....
Why wouldnt you take the extra few seconds to change your dials from empty to regular when the compartments have regular in them. If you were ever in an emergency situation people would mistake the tank for being empty when it is actually loaded. For example if the tanker rolled and fire crews seen the dials they would be tempted to think the tank is empty unless they checked your bill of lading.
Brad Kroes , thats why they check the BOL, not all trailers have petro dials. You cant always go off of what they say.
In New England you would get written up for that. Retired now but tanker was my favorite job!
Florida doesn't require the use of petro dials, i use them now though. Used to not care but ever since we started hauling for diverse loads i started using them to make sure i dont make a mistake when dropping
Brad Kroes some states require it if your trailer has them.
I agree that knowledge is power, especially in an emergency situation. And in a serious accident, it may take a while to access the bill of lading. On the other hand, an "empty" tank is still hazardous because it contains flammable vapors.
I stumble onto this video and watch the whole thing and then you drop the name Jacksonnville Fl. lmao thats my hometown lol. Do you travel or do you live here in town?
I live in Jax, i work for a different company now though based out of Savannah, GA. So im back and forth a lot.
When you can make it look that simple, you got to know what s your doing. ! diffenetly a pro..
Invest in a chesty mount for GoPro! Great vid btw thanks for sharing
evo14ramirez , thats what im thinking about getting for these videos. Thanks!!
No locks on those in-ground tanks? Free gas! LOL.
Nah they probably have cameras or something.
Locks keep honest people from making poor choices. Thieves just break the caps.
Thank you for sharing this information. I've been a truck driver for almost 12 years and I will start my new job as a fuel hauler in a few days. I've been searching for as much info as I can about this sector of the industry. Even though it is repetitive, It seems pretty interesting and it keeps you active.
Thanks again and stay safe out there.
What happens to the vapor in the truck once it's empty and back at the yard?
Sooner Keith they would clean it out before putting it away
@@Error-lh8cc That's my question, what or where does the vapor go? They don't just open the valve and release it into the air.
Thorough clean out with soap and stuff then let it dry which would get rid of the vapour
@@Error-lh8cc That's not really how vapor works. Thanks for the input though.
The trailers sit with vapor in them. There are pressure release valves, in case the temp increases. When the trailer is next loaded, the vapor is pushed out and burned off.
Just curious, do you have a Hose specific for the Diesel fuel or do you use the same hoses for everything? Would the small amount of Diesel fuel stuck in a hose really contaminate gasoline enough to make a difference? Same question in regard to filling Ethanol Free gas using hoses that have run our Florida's "up to 10%" or even E85 gas.
I use the same hose, the small amount wouldn't matter. You're talking less than a cup of fuel into a 20,000 gallon tank
The only time it can make a difference is with military deliveries or deliveries of AVGAS LL100. You don’t swap hoses with them.
This is an interesting video.
But
WHY WAS IT IN MY RECOMMENDED!
who the fuck cares? just watch the fucking video or watch a different who gives a shit about why its your god awful recommended
Nobody:
TH-cam: How a gas truck delivers fuel
12k views..someone is watching
Just WOW. I'm the ops and control manager for a small petroleum company in South Africa and I've always believed that when it comes to doing a drop there's a standard across the globe. There are some similarities, like the vapor we release it via a breather pipe and rely on pressure built by the truck to gravity out. BTW you said the 6 compartments is the largest you've seen, here in S.A standard load is 40000 Liters = 10566.882 Gallons in a 7/8 compartment configuration. Be safe out on the road and always remember in our industry the moment we lose respect for the product that's when things end up going side ways.
Everything you did looked perfect. You made not one mistake and you knew where everything was. Yes you've been doing it for a while but it's just so cool that you know what to do know matter the situation. Props to you man keep up the good work !!!
Thank you!
Thanks for supplying gas! That's risky business I bet. But funny how no one uses premium I use it all the time!
Most cars engines are built to use regular gas and will not receive a benefit from using premium. Premium gas will improve performance of cars that have engines that can utilize or only run on premium. So unless on the gas cap of your car says it recommends premium or only premium, you are better of using regular gas in your car.
I run premium on my Motorcycle, the difference in performance is amazing. i have tried using regular once and you could feel and hear the difference in the bike. she did not like it.
Vehicles with high-compression engines, especially turbocharged engines, need a higher octane than regular grade gasoline. If your vehicle needs premium it will run poorly without it. If your vehicle does NOT require premium it will NOT see any benefit by using it.
Wesley Hurd Typically anything that is above 10:1 compression needs premium. Turbocharged engines have for example 8:1 but once that pressurized air gets in the engine it goes up.
Funny how you say no one uses premium but then you say you use it all the time lol.
Thanks for this! I work for a fuel delivery company and I finally get to see what they do. My job is to make sure all the permits, inspections and certifications are up to date and on the truck or trailer so they are able to get the fuel from the terminal to the customer.
Kimberly O'Keeffe you should ask to do a ride along to see what goes on with your crew. Bring it up, it’s always a good thing for co-workers to see and understand what the others do.
@@akbychoice With my home schedule it's not possible at the moment but I have attended safety trainings our company runs (for free) to any fire department in our area. What an eye opener! Our Safety Director shows up along with a truck and full size tanker and goes stem to stern. Even the driver gets involved to answer questions.
The nice thing is if your truck runs out of diesel you have a ton of it in your trailer lol
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Unless the trailer is empty, don’t ask me how I know.
We always drop the derv first then the spirit, to prevent a cross over contamination, wait for the tiny bubbles and knock the valve off, enough fuel in the line to get you to work for a week 😂 👍
Thanks for the glimpse into the inner clockwork that keeps our society ticking. Godspeed, Brother!
Thank you for sharing how you do your job. I never really thought about how gas and diesel gets to the gas station
I'm so glad you posted this video, for one, people get to see how things happen. For another, I hauled fuel for 20 years and I still enjoy things like this video. The progression in equipment and the loading racks is amazing. I top loaded at Phillips in Laverne, Ok for many years where you had to actually type your ticket. When I stopped hauling I was loading at P66 in Amarillo. Bottom load, computer tickets and loaded 7500 diesel in 15 minutes
Its crazy how different things are. If i load high sulfur diesel at our terminal In Savannah it's top load. Takes me about an hour to finish since i have to move the truck.
Bottom loading at Marathon where I am now, they have three diesel heads. You can load 7500 gallons of diesel in about 8 minutes.
cool. im in school right now got all my endorsements I have my skills and drive test in 2 weeks. i want to haul fuel
kyle lynn , i love hauling fuel, best of luck to you!
Trucks and Guns what do you love about it
kyle lynn before a tanker company will hire you they useally want u to have at least 2yrs of driving under your belt and to be completely honest with you hauling fuel is a terrible job to start out with when hauling fuel there is no such thing as a cheap accident something as small as a spill that gets reported cost 10s of thousands to 100s of thousands cross drops are huge money gas station's useally have no room to move around plus you have people constantly walking behind you or in front of you looking for there million dollar pay day not to mention D.O.T cops will pull you over for random inspections just cause they see a bomb on wheels not a tractor trailer so word of advice I've been hauling fuel using a 34 wheeler super tanker with a GVRW OF 70 TON'S and I've ran the smaller 2 axle trailers like in this video and I've ran 42 tire 8 axle trailers hauling 90 tons of steal but out of all the trucks I've ran fuel tankers have been the worse for me being pulled over in for a random inspection and they don't seem to let things slide so you wana make sure you know 100% what your doing before jumping in a gas tanker
Jeremy Garner thanks for the heads up. I actually went a different route. Im with DOT foods great private company with round trip dispatch. 3 days out ,2 days local, home 2 days every week and the pay is great
kyle lynn dumbass pay attention in class
(1:05) Are those left unlocked and that easy to open? What is stopping any random person from opening one and putting something harmful in the tank?
Benjamin Richeson the flow is so strong that if it was opened anything someone tried to put into the tanks would be instantly pushed back out. Not to mention they would spill a lot of gas and be very obvious as you almost never see these trucks in a place other than the yard they are stored without lots of people.
Yes they are! Typically the locks are broken and no one cares. My main concern last I worked at a gas station was people who somehow manage to spill gasoline every where and then run around yelling "mah babehs are in da car!"
I'm staggered there's nothing to physically prevent randos from popping the tankcap off and slurping a couple gallons up with a siphon... I would have figured there'd at least be a padlock or something under the safety lid.
Edit: Ah, found your reply from last year indicating they were in the process of getting new tank caps and locks fitted.
Salute for men who working hard
Thank you!
Nobody at 2:30am:
TH-cam: Hey wanna watch how trucks deliver fuel?
Thank you Mr truck driver.
should have water paste on your stick so you can prove you didnt deliver water and report any water reading prior to drop to both the station operator and your dispatch it removes your companys liability. real expensive to pump out a tank then refill it with clean fuel. I deliverd fuel in AZ for 15 yrs - good delivery by the way text book safety nice job!
*The more you know*
I think they make a camera mount that goes directly on your nose. Gives much better angles.
Just kidding. Very informative video. thx
Don’t you just love it when someone comes up and ask you if the price is going up or down while your dropping 😂 and if it goes up it’s your fault. I find hardest part about hauling fuel is dealing with the public
Absolutely, I get asked that all the time. I just tell them I don't deal with pricing
Don't they base pricing on the markets, not on the deliveries?
people are dumb
Thanks for all that you guys do keeping America running.
I can relate, I get Jet Fuel from these same types of trailers, but sometimes they are dedicated and only have one offload valve. I like those ones. Set it once and start pumping from our pump. PTO is slower, but it gets done, none the less. We have above ground tanks, 26k gallons. Anyway, I don't fly, but I drive. So its good to see the other side of the coin here, thanks for posting this.
No problem at all, thanks for watching and be safe out there!
6:59 & 12:08 If you're dumping more regular, surely it makes sense to start that first.
Normally that's what i do, but if im training someone new, i always tell them to start the premium first since to make sure it gets off the trailer into the correct tank.
Very informative video. Very easy to disregard the amount of work and attention to detail that these kind of jobs require. One of the many jobs that keep a nation going.
At the truck stops, do the auto island diesel pumps share the same tanks with the truck lanes? Curious if the auto island diesel is just as fresh as the trucker pumps. BTW, great video. Appreciate all you do to keep the country moving.
Thank you and yes, at this one they do but some stores have a seperate tank for auto diesel
I didnt know these are that sophisticated and high tech. Thats cool as shit
Thanks for watching!
Im curious about the process of filling up a tanker and going from point a to b, c, and d.
I plan on doing that
Here From Houston Texas 😁 As A Little Girl I Only Seen Maybe One Or Two Trailers At A Gas Station & Ive Never Seen A Driver This Up Close & Personal With A Trailer To See The View Of Ur Work . 🤩🤩Thank You So Much For Ur Service & Safe Travels Each & Every Delivery ♥
As someone who does dry van do u empty the whole tank and all compartments at one station return to the refinery and repeat ?
john leininger , if the whole load is going to one station then yes. if its a split unload then i may drop one compartment at one station then go to another station with the rest. We actually load from a terminal that gets fuel from refineries. so for instance the refinery may be in Louisiana, a ship will load up fuel, travel around florida up to Jacksonville and unload. then we go to the terminal that the ship unloaded at and load our trucks then go from there.
john leininger , sometimes i do anywhere from 2 loads a day all the way up to 9 loads a day depending on where im picking up and where im delivering.
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Now take us to get fuel. Good vidja
Jon Wright , due to terminal policies and homeland security im not authorized to record video of the loading process
@@DrtyDiesel no kidding, as if the bad guys don't know where the tanks are. Thanks for sharing what you can!
Similar to fueling airplanes at the airport.
soundspark no there are pumps sometimes and there is at some airports an underground piping system and they use hydrant carts
boy am i glad to see them after a hurracane they are my heros
When Irma hit Florida i was in Gainesville dropping at a store that had a line all the way to i75 waiting for gas. That was the first time a customer had ever thanked me for doing what i do.
@@DrtyDiesel the public dont thank you guys enought your important with out you guys america will be at a stand still.going no were.your the engine that drives america cars would be parked with out the gas trucks
@@jamieturnage4574 and it's comments like yours that help me be even more proud of what i do, thabk you for that. You be safe out there.
@@DrtyDiesel your welcome its true you guys are very important vital i say
@@jamieturnage4574 i appreciate it, i really do.
No electronics, this includes cameras
Thank you for the lesson. Tough job during in climate weather for sure. Stay safe out there.
what camera do you use? because it looks like a video game
i like it
Markus Machamuta , i was using a samsung NOTE 5. I use a head strap thing i got off Amazon. I want to get a gopro before i make more first person driving videos
I was watching remedies for cough.. how did i end up here
Thanks for the insight. I drive in American Truck Simulator and unfortunately it isn't as involved as what you do every day. The truck simulator is way over simplified and I wish it was more involved when we deliver to gas stations in the simulator. Anyway, thanks for doing a great service to America.
great video. now i am not the biggest EPA fan but the vapor recovery does seem like a good idea. from what i understand in certain atmospheric conditions those vapors can pile out and stay close to the ground, drifting slowly or accumulating around. all it would take is one flick of the lighter.
hey, great video, very interesting... i always wanted to drive a tanker, thanks for the detailed explanations :)
btw, would you mind to make a little "this is my rig in detail" video sometime? i would love to see what you work with ;)
oh, and are you exclusively delivering fuel?
greetings from Jackrabbit_V6 0/
RSProduxx hey jackrabbit! yeah i deliver diesel, biodiesel, and gasoline mostly.
Trucks and Guns.... do you own your tanker? will companies allow for a O/O to pull their own fuel tanker?
i thought i was about to watch my guy deliver some kill
is it weird that the first thing this video got me thinking was...
"how long would it last me if i stole one of these trucks, fully loaded?"
and then i read the comments and see i'm not the only degenerate ;D
Running a 4.4L V8 Land Rover with UK petrol prices ($6.50 per gallon).. ...it's something I think about quite a lot! :)
Two questions please. 1 how much do you get paid to haul dump fuel vs other products?? IE per load.. per mile?? 2 how you load fuel in this recessed filler units in bad weather and not get water in the tanks. I got bad gass once. Water in fuel. It ruined my week!!!!!!
1. At my new company im with now, I'm paid hourly. I get $19/hour plus OT after 8 hours. That's the starting wage.
2. During rain I open the caps quickly put a fitting on to reduce the amount of water as much as i can. The store is responsible for removing water from their tanks. Not all of them do, but from my experience its better to buy from a name brand store rather than a mom n pop. Living in the south i buy only from GATE or Enmarket. Since im friends with a lot of GATE drivers i know they keep up on their fuel.
Wow! Thanks for uplaoding this video! As a kid and even today I always marval at a these big rigs pulling a set of double tankers (most of the tanker trucks I've seen make deliveris in the Toronto area are doubles) as they snake around the city into seemingly tight gas staions only to wonder what the process of delivering fuel is like!
Very cool to see up close
Thank you for not for not taking offense, none intended. I've been dispatched to drive different trucks occasionally, some drivers aren't to particular about fittings. Without a bucket, you know what "can" happen. In a secure area I don't use cones either. It didn't show in your video. In California EPA requires that vapor be hooked to truck first, so when hooking to tank vapors are trapped in hose, making a true closed system. You are being grossly underpaid, I hope there is better pay in your future.
Tanker Yanker , no offense taken, I'm in Florida so our epa laws arent as strict as California. Yeah its the cost of living, i make $22/hour now but its still much less than what a lot of people make hauling fuel. Luckily im happy here, I could switch to load pay and make a little more money but i dont like rushing in this line of work.
Tanker Yanker - if the epa gave a shit about spilling gas and vapors they wouldn't mandate those stupid gas can spouts.
Trucks and Guns you need to work for the company out at NAS. They pay a lot more than $22 hr. But I was told from one of the driver's there yrs ago that you had to wait for one of the driver's to die! Meaning the pay is to good to quit.
lance henthorn , i appreciate it but i dont do this job for whoever pays the most. I work where im happy, money only goes so far for me.
I always thought gas stations had unlimited gas
Definitely not lol
Oh god no. I worked in one located near a heavily used road, it doubled as a truck stop, and we got at least one delivery per day. Sometime two, one for diesel and one for regular. Each second delivery of regular would have premium too...
It is said that if all the trucks ever stopped moving that gas stations and fuel supply would be one of the first things effected by shortage/outage.
I was in Florida last September during a hurricane and I was surprised at how quickly the stations ran out of gasoline. We take it for granted that there will always be gas at a pump and when it's not you really appreciate the thankless and dangerous job that these guys do.
Same bro at Lea St when I was a kid
When the Tanker returns to the loading terminal, the trailer vapors are then pushed ,while reloading to a vapor recovery system. There it is either burned off or processed to the bulk tank.
Damn that make sense to mix 93 with 87.
Yeah, a lot of people (including myself until i started hauling fuel) thought mid grade was its own fuel.
@@DrtyDiesel In some stations; not so common anymore, mid-grade is it's own fuel. There would be 3 separate tanks in the ground. The dispensers would have 3 hoses, one for each grade. We would call them non-blending sites.
@@yarnallsgarage3969 yes but a lot of stations are moving to blend pumps.
Thank you
congrats on 1mil views
Dang, i just noticed! Thats pretty awesome and thank you!
Do you like delivering fuel, I work at a 76 and most of the Petrocard drivers I talk to hate their job, could be the company though.
PNW 360 , most likely the company. i love it where i work
Not the company it depends on the places you deliver because some places are always busy making it much longer to deliver.
All fuel haulers complain about their jobs. Its only until they get out there on the road they realize how good they have it. 12 years as s fuel hauler, majority of fuel haulers I encounterd are cry babies whinning ass bitches who worry about who has which load or alway tring to stab fellow drivers in the back to make themselfs look good. Thats why most fuel haulers hate their job because of other shit starting fuel haulers who make the job hostile.
Hazmat Larry Lol I haul gas and you just described my company . Good place to work for but all my shitty cry baby coworkers make it miserable at times . I make 85 k a year, home every night , off weekends and I still think about quitting at times .
Now I'm really excited about getting into tanker because I'm tired of hauling freight for FedEx
But where's that trucks gas tank? Does it get high on its own supply?
Always glad to see a driver use vapor recovery. That was my biggest pet peeve when I managed a gas station for 9 years. It would piss me off when a driver was too lazy to hook one more hose.