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The reason for no baffles is sanitation. Milk tanks can't have baffles cause it gets stuck behind them. We can't because the sludge gets trapped and contaminates the next load.

 

See there you go, I did not know that, just goes to show even us old gearjammers can learn a thing or two.

 

Even w/baffles in a tank you still have to deal with some surge and don't forget slosh as you go around curves and make sudden lane changes-
which should be avoided!

 

drove tankers awhile back , Quality Carriers , never had the baffled ones. hauled all kinds of nasty crap. had to learn how to drive all over again !

 

I heard a newbie tanker yanker on the CB once asking if anybody saw who rearended him and took off . Drivers that saw him coming off an on ramp told him nobody was close to him . . Something about turning and slowing will really give you a hard surge .

 

Lmao. I remember when I first started pulling a smooth bore. It was nuts the first time I felt that surge. I had hauled gas before that, and those 5 compartment tanks barely have any surge at all. It was a real awakening.