this is a serious ??? no sarcasm please

I drove my tanker on the ice all over the place this winter. You go slow, that's the key. As to those who say they control surge I have to ask, how do you go up a hill or down one without it surging? How do you brake or shift without it surging? I know the though, you can't and you dont. No matter how smooth you are surge happens.

 

Surge is all in the timing. I find it easier on the top side of my 13sd than the bottom. The short shift points with acid works better with the heavy liquid.

 

Driving tankers is all about experience.
The more you drive them the better you get.
The problem is the time in between when you first start driving them and you get a lot off experience.
Being carefull and using common sence is what bridges that periode off learning.
Knowing you equipement and feeling what your truck is telling you is important.

As to jacknifing.........there is 1 thing you can do.
Have the brakevalves(those valves are on the truck) setup so that the trailer allways brakes a fraction earlier then the truck.
Any decent mecanic can measure that and adjust to a proper setting.

 

i love the IF THE CHAINS HAVE TO COME OUT. IT'S NOT SAFE TO DRIVE.

like another post said. what you gonna do. park till spring. ??????

4 trucks going to seattle. one truck chained. delivered. picked up. went to farmington nm. delivered, albuquerque for pick up to denver. reloaded in denver and went home to salt lake.

the other 3 trucks. sat in legrande or. for 8 days. making no money.

guess if you want to make money. your not going to be LAZY.

 

Could you tell me how your going to get all 48k pounds at the back of the trailer and zero weight on your drives. Only way I can think of it is if you picked the truck and trailer up and stood it straight up in the air j/k. I see the point your trying to make but youll still have plenty of weight on your drives in a single bore trailer that is fully loaded. Where this can present a problem is in a multiple compartment gasoline trailer. If you have multiple drops and leave your rear compartments loaded for your final drop and bad weather rolls in you could be looking at a hairy ride.

 

Derailed,if you are at 80 000lbs with the load only filling the tank to 50%(halffull,which does happen),the drives will have no weight on them if you stop on a hill.
I have know a guy having to reverse to a unloading point up a hill because he didn't get any traction.
Granted it doesn't happen every day but it is something you should remember in the back off your head.

 

I understand but 48k of product certainly isnt half a load in most cases.