Pulling a dry bulk load to help out dispatch. I am a liquid bulk driver. No training on these things. This tanker will not dry out! Four trained drivers came by. Three days in a row. Different tractors, different blowers... Hours upon hours... Still wet. What gives? Even Qala can't dry this swampy monster.
Put a whole new spin on "dry" bulk. Anyone else ever been frustrated with a trailer like that?
Dry bulk craziness
Discussion in 'Tanker, Bulk and Dump Trucking Forum' started by Just passing by, Sep 20, 2019.
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set it on fire - sorry thats all I have.
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Product? Airate. Why is it wet to begin with ?
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your probably going to have to pull the bottoms off the trailer(s) toss the pads and replace them, have to remove the screens clean out the air chamber of the now hardened crap from getting them wet and reweld the screen beck into them.
Oh yea did I say never get the canvas pads wet, ever.
If you have flowcones (which look like little umbrellas) somewhere between 3 and 6 of them , those you can wet wash and even haul liquid in them, but not in the canvas one.ChicagoJohn, Suspect Zero, okiedokie and 1 other person Thank this. -
Dry bulk is easier to pull no surge, But he key word is dry. as in no water even cleaning them unless you know exactly what your doing.
I hauled dirty water in dry bulk trailer for a few months, no problem, II/V Cement to Vegas and dirty water from Mountain Pass to Santa Clarita Waste Water.
I would vent the manholes and leave the bottoms open back to Tehachapi, close it up load cement for the next day. Flow Cones not canvas.. -
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Hauling 15 lbs/gal product. Half full and up to weight in a 2 holer.
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Most of our loads weight around 11.50 per lb to 12.50 per lb depending on the iron content
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Mystery solved. Trailer has a radiator kind of thing on the front to cool off air going into tank... so no hot air, no drying up. I never got trained for this. You are supposed to unplug pigtail when drying it... It took 4 dry bulk drivers to finally figure it out. Plus little old me. Someone give me a liquid load asap!
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