A few people have asked me recently what I do for a living, so thought I'd repost this from last year. Nothing's changed all that much!
Most days,Mon.,Weds.,Thurs.,& Fri. start around 4am with 1 or 2 refined naphthalene trailers that need to be heated til the product reaches an internal temperature of around 220F degrees before they can be unloaded.
These trailers are loaded in Napierville,Canada at around 240F degrees but, even tho the trailers are insulated, after the 26 hour trip to Ky. they have cooled off to about 180F.
Since naphthalene becomes a solid white crystalline substance at 175, applying steam to the heat pads on the underbelly of the trailer has to start now.
The temp usually rises 8-10 degrees an hour, so at 8am they are ready to head to Kenova,WV to deliver at Willert's Home Products, where the naphthalene will be used to make mothballs and urinal cakes, believe it or not!
At 8, we open for tank cleaning, and the first one, a Calgon Carbon, rolls thru the door.
And, of course, there's always the paperwork!
After each trailer is cleaned and dried, got to have two copies of the work report.
Fax a copy to the dispatcher, so they'll know it's ready.
At 9:15 it's no. 2, another Calgon Carbon trailer.
By 9:20 we're starting to roll, and bring no. 3, a QC ethanol unit, into the 2nd bay.
The one major change around here is the idiot fellow pictured above has been replaced by this guy.
It was a good trade!
No. 4, at 10am, is another ethanol, we do a lot of those lately, Gasohol, ya know.
No. 5,at 10:30, and we're back to bay 1 and another Calgon.
11am and the naphthalene is back from Kenova and ready to be cleaned.That's no. 6 and it's not even lunch time yet.
7 is another Calgon at 11:30!
BREAK!
12:15 til 1:00 we do lunch.
Lunch is a quick run to Go Mart for some of that bargain $4.09 a gallon gasohol,
a pack of Camels, see my favorite Go Mart girl, Hazlea,
who was also my first Xanga friend, by the way, thru the McDonald's drive-thru for a burger and a Coke, and right on back to the grind.
At 1, it's no. 8, a Marathon Petroleum coal tar light oil trailer.
At 1:15, a Lyco gasoline unit makes it 9 so far.
Steam cleaning and degassing so unit can be welded on at Kat Tank to stop a major leak.
Blowing steam out to dry it, so it can be reloaded after repairs are made.
At 2pm, no. 10 is brought into bay 1.
2:15, and 11 is another QC ethanol. Rear unloader tho, little different setup.
3pm and the last one for the day, I hope!
No. 12, another Calgon.
4 o'clock, and we're done!!
My dogs are barkin'. Time to head for home!
It's gotta be beer thirty by the time I get there.
Kind of a slow day, really.
Mondays are usually 15 or 16 trailer days.
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