Want to drive tanker truck but don't want to explode?

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  1. ThisisMeUsee

    ThisisMeUsee Light Load Member

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    How often do these things explode on just a little contact? I would like to haul a milk tank truck
     
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    Nobody likes to explode.
    You probably need to worry more about a methane gas cloud if your wanting to haul milk
     
    Dennixx, Sep 3, 2018
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    ha ha
     
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    Pretty much daily. Sometimes bumps in the road cause explosions too.
     
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    Are you serious????
    Milk is not flammable.
    Troll
     
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    Even something that is flammable wouldn’t become an issue until air becomes part of the equation.

    @GasHauler
     
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    Depending on what I eat, I can have explosions all day long.
     
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    THAT?

    If you are fearful, don't run tanker. A milk truck is the most healthy thing you can ever be around. Theoretical if you like raw milk and are adapted to it, you might take a spoonful now and then.
     
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    A milk tanker has a better chance of imploding.

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    Wait for it

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    I once knew a driver who was hauling milk, he was at a farm loading his tanks and the farm tank exploded, milk is the most unstable explosive ever created.

    The walmart down the road had milk explode while they were loading it into the cooler, such carnage with all that were killed and the crater it left was huge.

    Serioiusly OP, you can get killed just going from your truck into the truck stop. I would not worry about the tank exploding.
     
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