I really need answers to the question on why the laws are different for milk tankers. If shifting of milk is one of the main resaon for the rollovers, why not put in baffles. Or is the price of milk more important then the lives that have been lost or changed forever.
why no baffles in tankers
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by onewaygirl, Apr 30, 2010.
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Lack of baffles in a smoothbore is so they dont hinder with cleaning/washing them out.
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Really, Are their any laws that pretain to the baffles or any info would be great.
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You arent gathering info for a lawsuit are you?
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just doing some research at this time. why
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That sounded like a reasonable question. Just the way your questions are asked it sounds like thats the route your heading. Anyway, if there was baffles then you would have to wash each compartment separately which would be quite a bit more $$$$ and possibly time if the wash bay only had one washer, which most do. Its not just milk tankers that dont have baffels either. There is syrups and soy, juices, chemicals etc.... You just have to be more aware and go slower = no roll over.
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Plus the fact that if you had baffles in a milk tanker the natural surge backwards and forwards of the product as the truck travels/stops/goes would churn it into butter.
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Wow I hauled asphault for awhile with a smooth bore tanker. Some folks need to pull their heads out of there butts and drive accordingly, you have a liquid in motion in a cylinder behind you starting ,stopping and sudden corrections are not to be taken lightly. Hauling a partial load in smooth bore is a bisatch I will tell you that. I am only half crazy and am still here after almost 2 yrs of hauling a liquid tanker. I hauled fertilizer,asphault, six oil in that time.
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Most milk tankers are partitioned if comming from various farms. One farm might have blood in it, cant have it polluting rest of load. The farmer is supposed to be responsible for making sure his product has no blood, but accidents happpen.
As to smooth bore, I havent heard (maybe just my area) of farms that could produce that much milk to be able to fill that much truck.
An instructor of mine, Wayne S. Told us of a instance where he went and filled the partitions full. Not having a clue about expansion. So he was huffing it down Maines bumpy roads. He said he looked into his rearview and could see the cars in the rear with their wipers on getting covered with the over flow. LOL
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