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Automation Squad

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AI for Tanker Loaders

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Load and unload chemicals and bulk solids, such as coal, sand, and grain, into or from tank cars, trucks, or ships, using material moving equipment. May perform a variety of other tasks relating to shipment of products. May gauge or sample shipping tanks and test them for leaks.

Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders · O*NET 53-7121.00 · Job Zone 2 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

3 of 7tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

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    Microsoft Excel

  • Excel

    MCP server
  • Excel

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  • Make (make.com)

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  • SAP S/4HANA

    MCP server

    SAP S/4HANA is an intelligent ERP suite that helps businesses manage finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations in real time.

    SAP S/4HANA

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The tools this job actually uses

7 documented for this occupation. Showing 7, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Linuxhot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • SAP softwarehot
  • CompuWeigh GMS
  • Distributed control system DCS
  • Warehouse management system WMS

What this job involves

19 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 19.

  1. Seal outlet valves on tank cars, barges, and trucks.
  2. Verify tank car, barge, or truck load numbers to ensure car placement accuracy based on written or verbal instructions.
  3. Connect ground cables to carry off static electricity when unloading tanker cars.
  4. Start pumps and adjust valves or cables to regulate the flow of products to vessels, using knowledge of loading procedures.
  5. Check conditions and weights of vessels to ensure cleanliness and compliance with loading procedures.
  6. Observe positions of cars passing loading spouts, and swing spouts into the correct positions at the appropriate times.
  7. Monitor product movement to and from storage tanks, coordinating activities with other workers to ensure constant product flow.
  8. Copy and attach load specifications to loaded tanks.
  9. Remove and replace tank car dome caps, or direct other workers in their removal and replacement.
  10. Operate ship loading and unloading equipment, conveyors, hoists, and other specialized material handling equipment such as railroad tank car unloading equipment.
  11. Test samples for specific gravity, using hydrometers, or send samples to laboratories for testing.
  12. Test vessels for leaks, damage, and defects, and repair or replace defective parts as necessary.
  13. Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, gauge readings, and operating times, manually or using computers.
  14. Operate industrial trucks, tractors, loaders, and other equipment to transport materials to and from transportation vehicles and loading docks, and to store and retrieve materials in warehouses.
  15. Unload cars containing liquids by connecting hoses to outlet plugs and pumping compressed air into cars to force liquids into storage tanks.
  16. Clean interiors of tank cars or tank trucks, using mechanical spray nozzles.
  17. Lower gauge rods into tanks or read meters to verify contents, temperatures, and volumes of liquid loads.
  18. Operate conveyors and equipment to transfer grain or other materials from transportation vehicles.
  19. Perform general warehouse activities, such as opening containers and crates, filling warehouse orders, assisting in taking inventory, and weighing and checking materials.