What not to load on a Food Grade Trailer.

What is carbon black?

 

Live cattle, chickens, hogs or dispatcher brains. Never haul these in a food grade trailer.

 

Think worse that coal dust.

 

Yeah I hauled some of that #### (carbon black) as a company driver years ago. Its' like a very fine talcum powder. Its bagged and palletized. They use it to make the black ink in ink pens. The bags are dusty and they don't mind tearing holes in them pouring that #### out in your trailer. You'll need a respirator around it really fine material that gets in everything. A complete mess. And heavy too.

 

It's also used as a filler in the manufacture of tires and other rubber products.

 

Im happy never to have hauled carbon black.

Salt bagged 5 high which is about your knee and 24 pallets weights the trailer pretty good. I could take the US 15 and other roads somewhat at the limit on the turns with loads like that close to or lower than the CG of the rig.

 

Washing will ruin the trailer,sprinkle a can of coffee on the floor to deodorize.

 

I got rejected once with a shipping container that had hauled mint oil. I thought it smelled pretty good, myself....

 

I had a load of bird seed from thailand of all places in a sea can. Made it into Baltimore downtown where they take the body sized burlap bags 7 feet tall off and build 5 pound seed bags for retail. They did not want the seeds.

It was a real bad day sitting there waiting on a boss who is about to stroke out wondering what to do with 48000 pounds of bird food that no one wants. (Too dusty they say...)