liquid tanker job
 

any info on these companies? Praxair, Air Products, or Linde. Pay scale or shifts available. Willing to relocate.

We (JB Hunt) recently have been hired by Praxair to recruit for them. Right now I have nothing open in Mass. The closest would be Memphis. But I fully expect more places to open up for hiring
Payscale. Depends on the area. But for a single driver running local you are looking at 50-70k per year. A few areas run teams regionally, you are looking at 80k -85k per year. Pay is hourly and mileage.
Praxair has some insanely strict qualifications and they wont sway from them one bit. They only want the absolute best drivers with the cleanest records.
25 years of age
Hazmat and tanker endorcements
non smokers only
absolutely no tickets or accidents in the last 3 years
no unemployment in the last 3 years
No misdemeaners or felonies ever
No DWIs ever ( I recently had to turn a driver down whose only offense ever in his life was a dwi in 1969)

If you qualify, shoot me a PM and I will keep your info in case it ever opens in your area

hey sheepdancer...just because i work construction right now and am usually laid off in the winter, i am unable to hire on with Praxair? :roll:

No, they wouldnt take you.
Sorrry, I dont work for Praxair. I dont make their hiring policies. Weve just been hired by them to recruit. I guess they feel its such a good high paying job, they can afford to be really picky. Its tough, but I am finding drivers for them. I usually have to weed through about 150 that want the job to find one that qualifies.
I guess I should have been more clear with that....they want 3 complete years of driving OTR in the last 3 years and they really want some of that to be tanker.
Heck, the other day I got a driver that drove for them 5 years, quit a few months ago and wanted to come back. They wouldnt take him back. Supposedly they dont even do rehires.

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Mr. Sheepdancer, I don't have the 50 posts so I can't PM you. If you could, would you please e-mail at home with a # I can get ahold of you and give you some info and chat with you, my name is Bob,Thanks. [email protected]

Here is another example of how strict Praxair is. I had a driver who perfectly qualified, absolutely perfect driving record, everything checked out, way more than enough experience. We OK'd him and sent him to the praxair interview. Basically they didnt like the way he was dressed for the interview. I think he was wearing a bathing suit... :lol: Anyway, he didnt get the job.
I have to add that to the list of my qualifications...this should be a no brainer, but DRESS PROFESSIONALLY FOR THE INTERVIEW.

I was looking at praxair, but sheesh, I dont think I can get on with them.. I only have 2.5 yrs driving. So I guess im out too.. Dang it!

Sheepdancer wrote: DRESS PROFESSIONALLY FOR THE INTERVIEW.

So..one guy wears a bathing suit and everyone is an idiot? Better reset your relief valve there Sheepdancer

Hey pal. I'll have you know that the dances with the farm animals has always treated drivers that way.........

What do you expect from someone in a office who has never driven a truck?

Just do a search out his post....... :wink:

I dont see anywhere in my post where I said everyone, Skippy.
Im sure more drivers when going for an interview for an 80k+ year job would dress professionally. He didnt, and lost out.

I dont treat all drivers bad, I treat most of them with respect. This is known by many people on this board who have talked to be off this board.
The only people I treat with disrespect are people like you cluggy. You have done nothing to earn my respect.

I havent ever been a Chef either, but i know bad food when I taste it.
For the record, I have driven a truck and made money at it....just not legally :wink: I have a buddy who owns a manufacturing company in dallas. Many many years ago he had a load that went from dallas to Del Rio. His driver didnt like making long runs because he had testicular cancer. So he would pay me 900 bucks to run the load on the back roads down to del rio. I did this run about once a month for a year. Knowing what I know about the industry today, I would never do anything so stupid like drive a truck without a CDL. But when you are in your 20s and a stuggling college student, when someone offers you 900 bucks for about 24 hours of easy work...you take it.

Ahh, you mean people who don't agree with you, or your company. Well, for the record, I don't need your respect. And your posting on this board will speak louder than I ever could.

Oh yea, as to your simple attempt of identifying yourself with the drivers on this board. You would have done better not to mention anything. A real driver of today would look at your experience as patheticly lacking. Go pass that BS off on someone else. If you can't verify it, it never happened. But if you want to go with that to state your qualifications as a driver, I worked as a hospital corpsman many years ago, but it doesn't make me a doctor. As most would say, I am missing much of the real world experience along with years of training.

And I would say the same to you as to your "driving experience".

Ive never tried to indentify myself with drivers on this board, other than we are in the same industry.
You said I have never driven a truck, I just pointed out that I have.
Who cares if its verifyable...its not like I would need it on my resume' for anything.

A laughable responce, at best. :lol:

By the way, you should indentify yourself with the janitor. At least he tries to keep things clean. Oh wait....you picked up that paper not too long ago. I guess we can call you a janitor as well. :roll:

I have no problem picking up trash or doing anything else for the corporation I work for. Ive always given my employers 100% and go beyond what they ask of me. This is one of the keys to success in any job someone might have. You would NEVER hear me say to any employer I might have the words, "THAT IS NOT WHAT I WAS HIRED TO DO" or " IM NOT DOING THAT FOR FREE"

how old are you cluggy? 8?

Whatever Sheepdander. You Wrote:

I have to add that to the list of my qualifications...this should be a no brainer, but DRESS PROFESSIONALLY FOR THE INTERVIEW.

Your closing remarks are in caps on public forum reiterating a point to the entire forum..not addressing a single individual. :roll:
Your words not mine, but I will be happy to call you Craig if you prefer.
OK Sheila?

Skippy

Again, Corky....I was addressing and explaining the one driver who was stupid enough to wear a bathing suit to a 85K a year job interview...And once again, I wasnt refering to drivers as a group. And DAMN RIGHT from now on anyone I send to an interview for that job I am going to tell them to dress professionally. His non professionalism cost me a lot of money and time. NOW PAY ATTENTION...IM GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN FOR YOU SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT I MEANT. YOU SHOULDNT HAVE TO REMIND ANYONE IN ANY INDUSTRY THAT IF YOU ARE GOING TO AN INTERVIEW FOR A HIGH PAYING JOB TO DRESS PROFESSIONALLY.
AGAIN...I wasnt commenting on truck drivers in general.

Sheesh......Are you dating cluggy or something?

Like I said Craig, your words not mine. Nope, im not dating Cluggy. Richard Cranium. I mean Sheepdander. :lol: Your just full of Praxair and yourself. btw your caps are stuck on again...

Skippy Corky

I don't know why you guys are ripping on SheepD. He's just telling it like it is. I didn't see in his post that he was pointing fingers at anyone. I'm a supervisor where i work and I do the hiring there also. You'll be surprised what some people would wear for an interview. Anyone with a high school education knows to wear proper clothing for a job interview. If someone showed up wearing a bathing suit for a interview, he doesn't deserve to work for McDonald's as far as I'm concerned.

The company i work for does propane and asphat if you want to do that. They also do flatbed,van,gasoline and dry bulk

BobMack wrote:

If someone showed up wearing a bathing suit for a interview, he doesn't deserve to work for McDonald's as far as I'm concerned.

I totally agree with you and SD on the poor ethics and bathing suit attire 110% ..it's just the way SD stated it all in call caps initially in his closing remarks to a public forum, and not the individual. Thats all im saying. Well, im outta here..gotta go buy a bathing suit for my interview tomorrow. Maybe Cluggy will show up with some mint jelly. :lol:

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thanks for an answer..........i guess. News to me that jb hunt would recruit for praxair, a local driving job. All the praxair trucks i see in massachusetts are all day cabs. Thanks for the misinformation

I know several people that worked for Praxair/Linde hauling liquid hydrogen and bulk oxygen, nitrogen and argon. WAS a good job right up until the former Union Carbide/Linde Division/Air Seperation Group now known as "Praxair" summarily FIRED all of it's company drivers on the west coast in 1994. Contracted out to Jack B. Kelley at a LOT less in wages and bennies....I guess they needed the money after they killed all those people (25,000) in Bhopal, India in 1989. And of course, they had to get it out of the drivers, never the executives.....

:lol:

Well that statement makes me feel kinda special. It also proves your an idiot. Someone doesn't like your tone towards your posts, and all of a sudden, they are my best buddy?

How about this? Maybe they don't like you either. Or at least, what you have to say.

And one more thing. No-one here beleives anyone would show up to a interview in a bathing suit. Just another lie. Instead, just tell the people and the other farm animals the truth for a change. The guy didn't get hired, and you don't know why.

Or better yet, keep on lying. Like I said, your post speaks louder than I ever could about you, and the company you represent.

Yea, I'm 8. And you can kiss my 8 year old A$$. stupid.

Come on now, do you really beleive that a guy needing a job would show up to a interview in a bathing suit? It's a lie, told by a guy who really thinks that the drivers on this board are stupid enough to believe it. The guy he sent didn't get hired, and he doesn't know why. But instead of posting that, lets make that guy look stupid by telling everybody that he showed up in a bathing suit.

You better go get a shovel if your going to start buying the crap sheepdancer will give you....discounts available when you purchase by the ton. :roll:

Hands clug a Midol.
Lighten up Frances,

Nope cluggy, that is exactly what happened. There was more to the story, he was actually wearing a bathing suit and flip flops. And he was also an hour late for the interview.
For the record, we always know the reason drivers we recruit arent hired, whether it be for JB or an outside company.
Again, I never said its just drivers who do this sort of thing. In my life ive condcuted many interviews in many different types of jobs. And Ive seen people show up wearing very strange things.

Yea, right....whatever. :roll:

Re: liquid tanker job
 

AGB....If you want to know how Praxair will respond to you, go to one of their terminals in your area. Just because all you see in your area is day-cabs, does not mean they don't have sleeper units. Most of the sleeper units are on on the road, doing what they are supposed to be doing..which is longhaul. You can also stop by Air products Company or even Air Liquide, or...as your name suggest's..you can go by AirGas, and see what they have to offer.

The praxair jobs we have been recruiting for them were local jobs and team type regional jobs were you are on 4 days off 3.

I don't see where showing up cleanly dressed and well groomed for a job like that would be a problem. Anyone who researches a company like that and probably 99% of the chemical tanker companies would have to know that these companies are a bit pickier than most freight companies in general.

If I was interviewing someone for any job other than "lifeguard" or "cabana-boy"....I wouldn't hire someone showing up in a bathing suit either.