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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Just send it. I work with truckers that ship fish, they drive the same as if they were hauling something solid. And people saying milk trucks don’t have baffles don’t know what they are talking about, we’ve had to cut those baffles out of them to repurpose as fish trailers.
Count the number of hose connections on the tank trailer to determine how many separate tanks are inside. Baffles are used in large ranks but transporting liquids in multiple separate tanks is quite common.
We drive slower and more carefully. My truck is a single tube, I don’t speed and I don’t turn sharply.
Braking can happen as far as 500 metres ahead.
1. Don’t make sudden moves while loaded.
2. The tanks are either divided or they have baffles to absorb and dampen the effect of the liquid sloshing around.
There are baffles in the tanks to break up the liquid into smaller volumes so the sloshing around is dampened.
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