FedEx Freight | Reefer Madness! (Tanker Madness)

Makes since. The endorsement test is very easy and is basically to make sure that a driver understands that a vehicle hauling liquid needs to be driven with care since is handles differently. Load up our pups or vans with totes full of liquid and it feels like a tanker.
 
I don't remember if she managed to get it mandatory, but Anne Ferro wanted to require tank endorsement to haul any amount of liquid in any size container that amounted to more than 110 gallons. So if you hauled 4 pallets of coca cola in 12 ounce cans, and the total ounces added up to 110 gallons + 1 ounce, you'd need the tank endorsement. She was trying to make that take effect in 2018 if memory serves.
 
Nothing like having 4 full totes on the back end of your tail pup. Especially in the rain and snow. Wiggle wagons indeed!
 
Sorry, I meant tanker. What's this big push lately to make everyone tanker compliant?
To stay DOT compliant.
Tanker jobs can be very lucrative if you have a clean CDL and get experience. If you find the right company and get the experience it is something to fall back on. My spouse has had to take some PT tanker jobs over the years while at Fedex. As long as there is not a conflict of interest with whatever tanker co. and Fedex, and you stay within your hours of service one could moonlight and get expereince in tankers and always change to FT with said tanker company.
With the insurance changes at Fedex being more in line with what some of the better tanker outfits offered over the years, it is something my spouse is considering.
 
To stay DOT compliant.
Tanker jobs can be very lucrative if you have a clean CDL and get experience. If you find the right company and get the experience it is something to fall back on. My spouse has had to take some PT tanker jobs over the years while at Fedex. As long as there is not a conflict of interest with whatever tanker co. and Fedex, and you stay within your hours of service one could moonlight and get expereince in tankers and always change to FT with said tanker company.
With the insurance changes at Fedex being more in line with what some of the better tanker outfits offered over the years, it is something my spouse is considering.

A buddy of mine works for Groendyke hauling gas. He makes about 70k. 12 hour shifts with rotating days off and mandatory holidays for new guys.

If you can handle that it's good money and decent benefits if I'm not mistaken. They have nice, updated equipment.

If you have the workhorse mentality and want to do some regional work, they have guys pushing 100k
 
I like it when you have a 18000 lb trailer and you get to the scale and your 4000 over in the nose because the dock loaded 4 right in the nose and light freight behind it!

Or when a dispatcher wants to know why you went out of the way to pick up other shipments before picking up 18000lbs of chemicals on a 53. It would be nice and beneficial to have some lighter frt in the nose, or would you prefer empty spots to stay legal??

The stuff a professional must deal with... :Poke:
 
Or when a dispatcher wants to know why you went out of the way to pick up other shipments before picking up 18000lbs of chemicals on a 53. It would be nice and beneficial to have some lighter frt in the nose, or would you prefer empty spots to stay legal??

The stuff a professional must deal with... :Poke:
The inherent problem with a two axle tractor is the ease with which you can load it over axle. My twin screw loved the one opportunity it's had to drag a 30000lbs loaded 53 across Toronto. I wish we were allowed to linehaul them during the winter. Even loaded with totes a 53 is more stable than a set. But they can't head load a 53, apparently.

And as I mentioned earlier, totes loaded on the back end of the tail pup suck. Bonus points if it's raining or snowing. Yee haw!
 
The inherent problem with a two axle tractor is the ease with which you can load it over axle. My twin screw loved the one opportunity it's had to drag a 30000lbs loaded 53 across Toronto. I wish we were allowed to linehaul them during the winter. Even loaded with totes a 53 is more stable than a set. But they can't head load a 53, apparently.

And as I mentioned earlier, totes loaded on the back end of the tail pup suck. Bonus points if it's raining or snowing. Yee haw!

I love pulling pups with a twin axle in snow! That lovely dead axle! You know the one that breaks traction in 1/2 inch of snow!

Question? Why are we pulling pups with twin screws? Aren't they purchased for rail trailers? Also who buys equipment with a dead axle in the back? When your pulling pups the drive axle isn't even under the pup! Better yet who buys a dead axle truck at all?

I know I know they are cheaper, but the video you just had us watch said our safety was the most important thing to you. I don't know maybe it's just me....
 
I love pulling pups with a twin axle in snow! That lovely dead axle! You know the one that breaks traction in 1/2 inch of snow!

Question? Why are we pulling pups with twin screws? Aren't they purchased for rail trailers? Also who buys equipment with a dead axle in the back? When your pulling pups the drive axle isn't even under the pup! Better yet who buys a dead axle truck at all?

I know I know they are cheaper, but the video you just had us watch said our safety was the most important thing to you. I don't know maybe it's just me....
Tag axles are not meant for pups, really. They can be made to work with some pups (nose stands come to mind) but you should still be able to set the tag axle suspension to a lower pressure to give the drive traction.

As to why you guys are using twin screws for pups, I have no idea. As owner/operators, twin screws are simply more readily available to us Canadian guys. Single drives are rare here as it is, and single drives with sleepers are nonexistent. Well, unless I bought one of the imported ex-Watkins ones floating around...but FedEx put an age cap on new trucks and they're too old.

All about the cubes at FedEx. 53s are only good for consolidation loads and city work to them. Why linehaul one 53 when you can fit 4 more skids if you use 2 pups? Love that logic.
 
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