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<p>[QUOTE="SaintBully, post: 3006797, member: 101817"]Sure they can. I've hauled crude in a vac truck a bunch of times. If you're on a flowback you can bet there will be times when oil that has settled in the flowback tanks will need to be transfered to the oil tanks. The trick is to make sure you are properly grounded because the pumps on vac trucks are not safely designed to move crude like roper and hydraulic pumps are. You won't see many doing it though because it isn't cost effective to use vacs to haul crude to refineries (130 bbls vs. 180-200 bbl crude haulers). If a vac is hauling crude, nine times out of ten it will just be on location. The scrubbers are irrelevent because they are designed to simply help prevent overflow. With all that said, any fluid you haul other than F/W will have a certain percentage of oil or chemicals in it. And, no one I know takes the time to measure that percentage. Whether it's 10% or 20%, you just load and go. Whatever it takes to get the job done and make the company man happy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SaintBully, post: 3006797, member: 101817"]Sure they can. I've hauled crude in a vac truck a bunch of times. If you're on a flowback you can bet there will be times when oil that has settled in the flowback tanks will need to be transfered to the oil tanks. The trick is to make sure you are properly grounded because the pumps on vac trucks are not safely designed to move crude like roper and hydraulic pumps are. You won't see many doing it though because it isn't cost effective to use vacs to haul crude to refineries (130 bbls vs. 180-200 bbl crude haulers). If a vac is hauling crude, nine times out of ten it will just be on location. The scrubbers are irrelevent because they are designed to simply help prevent overflow. With all that said, any fluid you haul other than F/W will have a certain percentage of oil or chemicals in it. And, no one I know takes the time to measure that percentage. Whether it's 10% or 20%, you just load and go. Whatever it takes to get the job done and make the company man happy.[/QUOTE]
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