You can get away with more with a freight box than you can with a loaded tanker.
A tankers contents are always in motion and need more care when taking exit/on ramps and other maneuvering.
It's not rocket science, if you're a safety minded individual you'll love this kind of work.

Doing Tote work like that is actually harder than smooth bore. With Totes like you describe, you have fluid in individual containers, each fluid doing it's own thing..very annoying.


I love it when some snooty person hurrys to get in front of me before a light, then end up right in front of me stopped...and the ole trailer is doing the bang bang thing, because the product is heavy, and there is a big air gap in the bore...Lot's of slosh...LOL...Gotta hold the brake or be pushed forwards & backwards.

Yeah, seems like when we had that load I'd gotten on here about hauling liquid on flatbed and someone told me somewhere here or out there somewheres that the tankers have like baffles in them to help with that. It all in all wasn't that bad of a load, just different than a plate of steel to chain down on there..........

Smooth Bore is just that..smooth the length of the barrel. Chemical Tankers, and most food tankers, cannot have baffels, because the baffels, and the barrel of the tank, can not be cleaned completely. So you have surge that runs the entire legth, as well as climbing the curve of the barrel.

Baffles only help with front to back surge, it will nothing for the side to side slosh.

This I know...what I was trying to explaining is, the reason smooth bore tankers have no baffels.

If you have baffels in a chemical tanker, the tank can not be properly cleaned. If the tank is not properly cleaned, then No Repairs can be made on it, no product, except the Last Product contained in it, can be loaded into it...provided it is able to be inspected and repaired...which leads us back to being properly cleaned.

Same applies to Food Grade.

Contamination in either is a bad thing, people can become extremely ill..or dead.

Edited, changed my mind.....it was just too easy... 8)

Wrong on two counts.

1. Pulling a tanker is not that easy.
2. There is a distinct difference.

Quite possibly a "bottomfeeder company" would hire an inexperienced neophyte to haul a fuel tanker in a city/urban environment..... Probably has little or no current insurance in place. You see "bucko", its not really up to the owner or even management who they can hire.... The insurance companies usually set the experience requirements before they underwrite a company. Now, if the company is fully self insuring, they can do as they please.... But that can be a tad risky, because the "insurance" could be all smoke and mirrors.....and a Chapter 7 right around the next corner.

Right here is where you show complete ignorance of reality. Surge is hardly a joke. But then its more than obvious you have absolutely no experience with a smoothbore, much less a tanker. Tell me, if you can:

How many degrees of lean or tilt can a tanker take before it rolls over?

Can you drop a loaded trailer on its landing gear and leave it?

Can you drop a compartmented tanker on its landing gear if only the front compartment is loaded?

Which placard can be used with one kind of fuel and another, but is not interchangeable under one set of circumstances?

What is one of the most important things you absolutely must do before delivering a load of Jet A?

Take your time.... I realize you will more than likely need help getting the answers......

Yep, and thats why all the best of the tanker companies make such a valiant effort to recruit directly out of "CDL mills"......

There is obviously much that you do not know about driving a truck that you presume to know.... and you claim to be a savant at it. Great if there is truth in it, but somehow.... I rather doubt that you are all that great at it. If you don't know about surge its obvious you have never pulled a smoothbore, so please don't shovel "bovine feces" around when you have zero knowledge......its a tad too telling as to your lack of experience and knowledge.

Oh, btw....Useless never asked for any SSN or account numbers.... he merely asked some generic questions that you could have answered based on a closing statement....and most certainly simple questions that a CA real estate maven could answer right off the top of his or her head....

Your dodge wasn't even "artful"..... I think "gauche" sums it up. For all your claims...you've provided zero substance. Pretty much all one might expect from a "troll".

Tell us....how are things in the "tenderloin"?

HMMMMMM.....Did Dizzy tire of the game and leave?? :cry:

:rock: :party:

I hope so. Tired of reading his BS, but more tired of the rest of you letting you lead you all with his bull. This topic is very useful, even for me, and I would rather read about experiences with the tanker, smooth or baffled, and try to compare them to my own.

Other than that, a very useful posting.

Just my .02 cents.