why no baffles in tankers

Different products have very different handling characteristics in a tube. The more viscous the product, the slower it rolls and the harder it hits the bulkhead. Corn syrup just plain sucks. One time after being cut off about 3 times and having the light change at an intersection, I actually stopped the truck, turned on the flashers and sat for a couple of minutes to let it settle down. If you can drive a tube smooth and fast on a hilly 2 lane, you are a good driver.

 

Around here very few milk tankers have more than one compartment. Of all the dairys I've been to I have only seen one tanker with two compartments. The intake guys hate to see him coming because there is only one wash wand per bay, so he takes twice as long to wash out.

 

Depends on the milk co-op. Some run compartments. Others combine farms and pull samples at each stop. If your barn contaminates load you get to pay for the dump of all the rest.

Sorry about your husband but baffles can not be used in a milk tanker. Not just because of the cleaning issues but as another poster stated with baffles you would have a load of butter if driven enough. Baffles are not an option in milk, and most food grade bulk ingredients preclude compartments as every breach increases chance of bacteria and contamination of food supply.

 

The difference between a baffled tank, a compartmentalized tank, and a smooth tank can be huge. I don't even feel a surge when I pull a baffeld tank anymore. Not that there isn't one, it just don't compare. If you think you felt something with a van full of totes, you'd forget all about that if you pulled a smooth bore.

 

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If they don't want to use baffles in tankers to keep them clean on the inside, then why can't the tankers be lowboy. As in the tank body drops down after the tractor tandems and then rises back up at the trailer tandems.

It seems like it would handle much better and be much easier to control etc.

I've seen a picture of this. It may have be European (they always have good ideas!)

Actually, this question applies to gasoline tankers as well. Actually All tankers.

 

I'd like to see such a tank like that. Sounds interesting.

 

It sounds like you are confusing front to back surge with side to side surge. Baffles only reduce front to back surge. All they are is a wall with a little hole on the bottom and bigger one in the middle. Most baffled tankers have two of them. Gasoline tankers are compartmentalized to separate products. They are also eliptical and therfore reduces the effect of side to side surge, reduces the center of gravity and, gains a few thousand gallons of capacity. I don't like your idea of lowboy tankers for a few reasons. It makes the tanker more vunerable to things like railroad crossings, It limits the places tankers can go, and every loading rack would have to be redesigned to accommodate them. It would also do nothing to reduce front to back surge and would still be quite possible to lay over. All it takes to handle a tanker is common sence. A driver that would lay a tanker down would find a way to lay a "lowboy tanker" down too.

 

exactly right!

 

i know i've seen a picture; Will try to locate if time permits(which it won't). Perhaps you might do a search?

i'm pretty sure it was European; Don't they always come up with the kinky ideas?