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re: Any shoreside tankerman baws here?
Posted on 12/9/24 at 12:38 am to namvet6566
Posted on 12/9/24 at 12:38 am to namvet6566
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I think “bout 350” slogan is worn out
Dammit….
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Posted on 12/9/24 at 5:05 am to reverendotis
quote:I think you are confusing tankermen with petroleum inspectors. Tankermen are there for the purpose of transferring the liquid products to or from barges. They open and close the barge compartment valves as needed and run the pump engine. Inspectors do none of that, they only gauge and sample the cargo before and after transfer for quantity and quality reporting as third party oversight.
I've never seen a tankerman perform the act of filling or emptying a barge. In our case, the liquid cargoes are overseen, solid cargoes are not. I've only seen a tankerman mess with solids when there were QA samples needed for submission to a third party trade lab. In that case their role was more of a neutral agent.
Posted on 12/9/24 at 7:13 am to Relham10
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why wouldn't the company receiving/delivering just have their own guys to load/unload or the barge have their own guys do the work?
I was a live on tankerman for a couple years meaning i was on the boat 28/14. The company I worked for only had 2 tankerman on the boat at a time (1 per watch). Some facilities would want our 2 barges loaded/unloaded at the same time using a jumper hose. Some would make us load/unload one at a time. If they used the jumper hose, then coast guard regs say that each barge has to be manned with a licensed tankerman, or a trainee could work under his tankerman's license. Most companies do not want that responsibility so they would call in a shore tankerman. I considered going shore side before I left the industry all together but most guys I talked to said they wished they would have stayed on the boats. They had no set schedule and little to no family/social life due to always working or being on call.
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