Holiday Stationstores Fuel?
 

Does anyone know who they have under contract for their fuel delivery? I assume they don't have their own transportation department, and if they do I was unable to find any information about it on their website.

Just curious about them since fuel delivery may be what I end up doing if I can't get a new route where I am at now. Never done it before, but the drivers I see at Holiday always seem to be pretty happy. Haven't seen any of them recently though so I haven't had a chance to ask.

Thanks.

They do haul their own fuel. I can't think of the name, but its not Holiday on their doors. I haul fuel in Minneapolis and do some out of their terminal there. If I can remember it I will post.

I am in the Minneapolis area as well. What company are you with? As I said I'm in foodservice right now and am looking at a possible switch in the future. Not necessarily a sure thing, but I like to keep my options open.

I am going to start hauling fuel next week. You can make 48-50k a year and be home every night. It's not that bad.

Hauling fuel is a good line of work to get into. Everyone always needs to put gas in their car or fuel in their truck. You do the loading and unloading so you don't have to deal with shippers, receivers or the wonderful dock workers. Tanker company's are also growing quickly with the addition of the Ethanol fuels and additive's. Ethanol can't be shipped by pipeline so they need more drivers to deliver it to the bulk plants.

People who have never driven a tanker will tell you it's dangerous, talk to people that have done it or that currently drive a tanker. The person signing your bills (the cashier) has a more dangerous job than a tanker driver.

BOL

Is that about the max you can make in that line of work do you suppose?

I guess it depends on were you live and how much the owner will pay. That is good money for around here especially driving a truck. I worked for a gas company (shell) 4 years ago part time and the full time guys grossed 1200+ most weeks (paid on %). Unfortunatley they got out of the fuel hauling business and hired it out. This other company pays around .40 a mile. So depends on the mileage you get per week.

In Southern California, the average fuel hauler makes around 23-25 dollars an HOUR. OT after 8, double after 12. I did fuel part time for years when I was working my way up the ladder @Brown. I worked for Maxi Tank Lines, Superior Petroleum and Wright Oil and Thrifty Gas (Santa Fe Springs). I am thinking about working part-time for KAGG (the old Beneto) in Reno. I'm bored and nobody is buying RV's. Start wage is $22.50 an hour...Tops out at $24.50. Fuel is easy once you get to know the terminals (GATX-Valero, Chevron etc and their way of doing things)

Holiday drivers work for Independent Diversified Transportation Inc. Their terminal is in newport. For the MN driver, they are hiring at that terminal. I work for Mielke. Bring home 1000 a week and home every night and off sunday and monday.

Right now there aren't any HOS restrictions on fuel haulers here in MN, and also in SD, ND and IA. We are able to run till we get tired. Haz-Mat people have been hanging out at the terminals, but are just checking the drivers. Making sure they don't look tired, red eyes, on cold meds... that sort of stuff. The restrictions are frozen until Oct 25th.

thinking about hauling fuel
 

have 8 yrs exp pulling a box. is it a good idea to get into hauling fuel if u never pulled a tanker before? any advice?

Its always a good idea to go tank. No lumpers, no warehouses, no refers, no shippers load and count. Pulling a fuel tank is easy. There are usually 4 compartments, so there is virtually no surge. Go to your delivery, hook up the hoses, unload in the correct tank (most important) then go to load again. Fuel prices may be high, but people will still drive everywhere and that means stations will have to be stocked.

anyone have any info on a company named florida rock and tanklines out o jacksonville fl?

Give them a call. http://www.patriottrans.com/WhoWeAre/

That's funny you wrote that. We just brought on an ex-gas hauler. He just told me yesterday he was canned from that job for putting the wrong fuel into the wrong tank at one of his stops.

It's happened before....It will happen again(ale` Charlton Heston and his deep voice).


I bet if you quiz said driver...he had more than one such incident...and tried to cover the last one up. Got caught by Veder-Root.

What's that? Is that the octane police :lol:

LOl..yea yea..that's what it is...the octane police.

No...Veder-Root is the inventory management system that the EPA has forced onto gas stations. It not only keeps track of the quantity of fuel in storage, but also shows how much fuel is unloaded at each delivery, and has leak detection...in case a drive punches a hole in the tank bottom with his gauge stick.

Before veder came along..."containing" a mix was easy.


Or so I heard. :wink: :wink: :lol: :lol: