why no baffles in tankers

I think way more is made of this that needs to be......every loads shifts.

 

Just drive the truck

 

Every load shifts? Where'd you get that BS?

 

Oh? I haul pig feed in a augar wagon. I got 8 compartments and each one is plum full when I get loaded. My load is not shifting.

 

To improve the safety for tankers drivers to push companies to use baffles tankers
You need to report the danger to OSHA
Also tanker mobile ladders

 

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Sadly, @onewaygirl developed Alzheimer's in the seven-year period since she last logged in and has been aimlessly wandering CA ever since. If she could remember her name, her login and password, as well as how to turn on a computer--or even what a computer is, for that matter--she might respond.

I strongly recommend not holding your breath in anticipation. YMMV.

 

I know that first hand. Weirdest feeling in the world of trucking to date.

 

No baffles.

Rollover is the least of our threats.

Anyhow. The Dairy unloads the milk. Once empty, we move up to the sanitizing bay, throw down the powerful pumps and hoses nozzles into the tank hatches and hook onto the back. Once they flip that switch there isnt any speck of anything left inside those tanks to stink up the next day's pickup.

If you had baffles inside those milk tanks, it's going to stink by morning in the summer. Its going to ruin whatever you try to pick up then. So. No baffles period for Milk.

It's been almost a life time since I hauled that stuff and it's incredibly easy to smell rotten, spoiled or bad milk. Baffles will hide bacteria and other things long enough to ruin a milk trailer. Sanitizing wont get them all.

The price of milk has nothing to do with lives. The cost of a 21 year old farm milk hauling tractor trailer driver has little value. As does the 60 year old. The driver usually has life insurance etc if he or she is married and has family etc to look after. Otherwise, we hop into the tractor and there goes it by the grace of god. Tomorrow is never guaranteed in life.

It is well and good to feel strongly about protecting life. But I say being someone who has lost 8 of my 9 lives and saved God only knows how many lives (And lost a few bleeders who don't get a torniquet put on right quick. Femoral artery in your leg at midthigh, should that be cut, you are dead in 40 seconds flat. You have that long to put a belt or tourniquet on it. If you don't have that or someone is not coming to help then you are gone. It's the way it is. That's one example.

Live your days well, rest in the night time to hopefully have another tomorrow. Don't stress about drivers getting killed running milk. It is far easier to get killed driving my personal car home what with the traffic in my area being aggressive than it is to drive a milk truck.

As far as rollovers... been there done that. Sometimes that thing will try to flip over if you mistreat it for one reason or another. Inside tandems come up savagely and if you dont feed in the right amount of counter wheel over you go. It's that easy.

Which is why I fall back to my tanker school.

1- Buy large coffee from mcdonalds.
2- Place on cab floor without lid in front of your shifter.
3- drive. Don't you spill it.

If you did not spill that in 1 hour then you are ready for tanking.

 

Were you an EMT or something?