Liquid Bulk Tanker

Food grade..... or water for dust control would be my first question.....?

6000 or 6500 gallons is about all your gonna be able to load weight wise.....

Insulated tank....? Why are you not unloading it ?

 

How many gallons do they want? Where are you supposed to load up? How are you supposed to load? Potable water?

 

Personally, I like Polar tanks the most. By themselves, a Polar or Westmark weigh about a thousand pounds less than a Walker. Indian River Transport buys tanks with the premium insulation, maybe they'll sell you a used tank. There's a lot full of de-identified tanks sittin' out off Executive Road.

The Polar tanks we pull have their landing gear crank on the drivers side. I like that.

 

I beleive the tanks are 6,000 gallons.

I haul 7000. But My trailer is also 53 feet with extra axles. So it's a heavy hauler.

Now, this is speculation since I don't know your truck setup. But this is what I've been seeing.

In order to get the trailer fully grossed. You'll have to have a raised 5th wheel setup. To tilt the load back somewhat. The drives are heavier so those will gross out before the trailer.

I've seen companies that have I think a 4 inch rise on the plate.

I'm not sure if there are trailers that are wider in the back to load extra weight. Other then 4 axle setups. But I don't travel the country. So maybe there are.

We tried the levelor adjust to max out ride height but that didn't accomplish anything to get more weight on the back.

When I was pulling those single bore tanks. IIRC. Max weight was 77,500. Half tanks of fuel could get up to 78.

The trailers were insulated. With heating capabilities. The trailer was tied in to the trucks cooling system. The truck supplied the heat to the trailer.

We were hauling bio fuel which gelled at 43 degrees. So the trailers needed to be heated in order to haul the product in the winter time. The loads went to SoCal so gelling for them wasn't an issue.

 

Look for a DOT407 or an older MC307 a lot of them have excess insulation compressed by the wrapper skin. Most are in the 6500 - 7000 gal range...20K tractor, your tare will be around 35,000 or more. Weigh it and figure how much water you can add at 8.463 pounds per gal...we used to ship 6000 gal at a time to fill swimming pools, etc. that won't slop much in a 6500 tank but you will feel it move.

looks like a used tank that fails the re-rests could be just your ticket...

 

Does your company know that a new tank trailer can cost as much or more than a new truck?

I'd look at some kind of mineral oil or something else that won't spoil.