Hauling Helium, anything special about these loads?

I heard you'll just float down the highway.

 

I hauled tubes for gas tank containers. We had one that came back and had to be repaired. Empty, this container on the truck was 86,000 lbs.

 

I heard the planet is running out of helium.

 

That stuff defies gravity and floats out to space.
terrestrial helium—a non-renewable resource, because once released into the atmosphere it readily escapes into space—was thought to be in increasingly short supply. However, recent studies suggest that helium produced deep in the earth by radioactive decay can collect in natural gas reserves in larger than expected quantities, in some cases having been released by volcanic activity.

 

Ya just speak funny.

 

We have plenty of hydrogen. Worked for the Germans.

 

Worked with tube trailers, jumbo tubes, of helium and hydrogen. Drivers griped about he small difference in product weight. You feel like you are always dragging a lead sled behind you because the tare weight isn't all that much lighter than the gross...

 

ah......another New Englander...ey..????

 

I yup