I'm new to tankers. I have one on-frame sidebox for storing air hose, fittings, absorbent pads, and bucket. I started out putting about a half-gallon of water in my bucket, putting my fittings inside the bucket (sealed by a gamma seal lid). The water in the bucket dilutes the remaining acid on the fittings after they are washed. My buckets keep breaking their bottoms. My last buckets have been the "heavy-duty" 5 gallon buckets from Lowes. They break about as fast as the first Walmart bucket. My sidebox doesn't have space for 2 buckets. I assume anything carried on the catwalk will be stolen. I'm not ready to carry a bucket in the cab or sleeper. I don't really have space for it. 99% of customers provide buckets to catch product. But recently I've been to a customer with one bucket and zero capacity to deal with even a drop of product if it were to be in the bucket. We swap trailers for every load so I don't want to use the trailer hose carriers. I'll eventually leave my fittings behind if I do that.
I would love some advice about carrying fittings and sturdy buckets.
My buckets keep breaking
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I've used a 3 gallon commercial grade bucket for washing my truck since my milk hauling days. They fit in the bunk compartment nice so we would scoop them from the dairy. Btw that was almost 25 years ago lol pretty good quality bucket I'd say
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