Liquid Nitrogen Tanker Rolls Over

N2 (liquid nitrogen) is a inert non flammable gas than when reduced in temp( approx-297) turns to a liquid, the only real danger is if it contacts your skin, even than it would bounce off you and most likely not cause harm, you need to be submerged in it, for it to cause damage.........if it contacts grease or oils it will make fire cracker sounds, but will not ignite, this goes for all inert gasses such as argon, c02, helium, which are most commonly transported, if you see a flammable placard.stay clear, such as propane, gasolines, or toxic, amazing what they allow to go down our highways with a usually tired disgruntled driver under time constraints that usually can't be met.............and working for minimum pay.......and please..........don't respond by saying I need to find another job,.......just cause your a desperate person that will give your life and limb for minimum wage

 

What was the last few parts of your post meant for????

 

As one who at one time pulled a propane tanker, I can categorically state that this part of your posting is undiluted crap.

In my case, I was given my assignments for a given day on the day before. I could plan my day and had plenty of time. Wish I still had that job, but I moved out of their service area.

I don't know what ax you're trying to grind, but I'm not giving you the stone.

 

Liquid nitrogen spill is a suffocation hazard if enough of it evaporates quickly enough. A few inhalations of the inert gas and light out.

 

I thought I was going to roll an N2 truck once. I can still remember that day, clear as if it was yesterday. It was the same day the Challenger Space Shuttle blew up. In fact, I was listening to the news of it on the radio for the first time as my own event was unfolding.

The short version: the N2 truck I was driving was an oilfield pump truck on a tandem steer KW C500 chassis with a very high centre of gravity. I was rolling through a northern Alberta town (Whitecourt) in the throes of some nasty winter weather. The highway went down a steep hill in town and as I crested the top of the hill I could see cars and trucks scattered all over the road due to ice (very common in that town as we'd get a lot of fog from the lumber and pulp & paper mills in town and on the other side of the little valley... upwind). The car in front of me started slowing down as did I. I was already geared down for the hill and there were no jakes on any of our trucks, but just letting off the throttle was enough to break traction and the truck started to rotate to the left.

The vision of me flopping over at the top of the hill and sliding down into a bunch of cars and trucks with a loaded, pressurized tank of N2 wasn't very appealing, so I had to get back on the throttle and maintain speed. I used the horn a lot and managed to weave my way through without touching anything. That one was a bit exciting.



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IU'm surprised Dowell never had you chain up when there's a snowflake on the ground. lol

 

Things were a little more "relaxed" back then, before the full influence of Schlumberger was felt. Getting the job done was definately priority #1 and if you were good at that they overlooked a lot of stuff... like giving a pass to the guy that drove the frac monitoring truck through the motel in Medicine Hat. Our safety guy only had about half his fingers.