How do truck drivers carrying a liquid load combat the force of the liquid moving around in the back of the truck when turning or braking?
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Baffles in the tanks – lots of tanks however do not have baffles, called smooth bores, usually for food grade tanks as the baffles make it hard to clean.
Very careful driving with all tanks but especially smooth bores. Even with baffles when you come to even a moderately fast stop you can feel it push you.
The bonus though is that you can run overweight and the scale houses won’t be able to tell if you jam the brakes when you go to stop on it, they’re not going to wait a couple minutes for the surge to die down
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