What do you get

john in la · Sep 7, 2014

When you mix low wages that only allows you to get a 24 year old inexperienced driver and 8400 gallons of gasoline?

The driver did get out alive with only minor injuries.

Justin SE IOWA · Sep 7, 2014

The experence of the driver and the salary are probably just someones opinion. Maybe he had a tire go flat, or some one pulled out in front of him and he couldn't get stopped. Dont be so quick to judge. At that age he might have a young wife and new born child at home. Without reading your comments about the picture all I was thinking was I hope no one got hurt. I am glad he got out alive.

john in la · Sep 7, 2014

She (but that does not really matter) said someone cut her off.
But according to eye witnesses; including another gas truck that was right behind her; she laid into a curve (entrance ramp) to fast and the side to side slosh rolled the truck.

I do not know her as she is new; but I know many of these drivers as I also hauled gasoline for many years in this area. It is a very tight nit group as we still keep in touch even though I have been out of that business for 8 years now.

And yes the best part is no one got hurt. I have lost a couple friends in similar situations.
It was one of my wife's biggest fears.

rrlund · Sep 7, 2014

Gotta start somewhere,but maybe a tanker load of milk would have been the place to start.

JD Seller · Sep 7, 2014

John I am just glad no one was seriously hurt.

I can't throw rocks at anyone driving to make a living. I guess she would have been better off setting home drawing welfare????

Also did all of us start out with 20-30 years experience??? Kind of a hard thing to do. Every one wants experienced drivers but no one wants to hire one that is starting out. So where is a new driver supposed to get experience???

john in la · Sep 7, 2014

JD
Everything you said is true BUT

When I started out (and it might have been just my situation) new guys started at the bottom with over the road jobs where you had open road and many miles to hone your skills.
Very few if any got local; in heavy traffic all day; stay at home every night jobs and you dang sure didn't start out hauling gasoline.

Today everyone wants to start on a local job because they want what they THINK is a sit on your but in the a/c and be at home every night job.
We have one at our yard. Hired to do local P&D work but he is so new he can not back up. We are now stuck with him as human resources will not fire anyone for anything less than a major offence. By company rules we are allowed 3 chargeables in 12 months before you get canned.
We put him on a yard truck for the past several weeks to let him learn backing up.
But when you drug test and do not hire anyone that has ever been arrested for anything (even if you were found not guilty) you take what you can get and train them yourself.

Sean Feeney · Sep 7, 2014

Speeding Company has 15 crashes 2 Years
Same Thing

JMS/.MN · Sep 7, 2014

Granted it"s hard to ignite, but wasn"t it EPA that considers spilled milk as hazardous waste? Enough to make a grown man cry.....over it.

Brown Swiss · Sep 7, 2014

My thought is that the EPA calls spilled milk hazardous because farmers use to take there milk to capitol hill and dump it to get attention from congress. How do you get this to stop, call spilled milk hazardous! Just my thought. Tom

ss55 · Sep 7, 2014

A larger raw milk tanker roll into the ditch and leak much of its cargo in front of a co-worker's house. This was in the summer. The fire department washed down the area, and he continued to irrigate the area to flush out the milk. But after a few weeks we could smell sour milk on his clothes when he came into work.

fixerupper · Sep 7, 2014

In my neck of the woods laying feed trucks over seems to be the popular thing to do. Most of the time it happens at night in a small tight gravel road intersection or farm lane. The right tandems drop in the ditch and over she goes. Feed isn't hazardous and most times it stays in the trailer. The trailer usually can be fixed but the tractor frame gets twisted and quite often ends up being totaled. I've spent time down inside a hot stuffy feed trailer jacking the side back out with a port a power.

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