truck drivers

[da SLUG man]

So why aren't ALL tanks oval?

milk ones are round and single tank with no baffles cos it stops the milk churning into butter while you're driving.

i think it's just for more capacity?...

(pressurised tanks (gas) are round with domed ends)

[Paff]

We have got all shapes, oval ones and flat sided ones. We even used to have a fibreglass Didak tankers that used to crack where the it joins the chassis as it flexed! But they were lighter and you could load them with more product!

Now they are all metal and even the latest 06 reg (mine ) had an extra metal plates welded on all sides at the midway of the tank - new ADR regs??

The inner compatment walls are convex shaped so that if the product is heated if it's next to a fire, it will pop out and give a bit more ullage space. Like the bottom of your air-r-sole container.

[da SLUG man]

then you got battery tankers... for highly pressurised gas...

they look like a load of gas bottles in a rack

[Woodzie]

gets confusing when you got the UK emergency action code, the Kemler codes and the ADR codes!!...

UK = 3 = Foam extinguisher

Kemler = 3 = Flammable liquid


so, don't get your 3's mixed up and spray petrol all over the fire!!



look here

I think as do my instructors did when i was in the fire service that the kemlercode is c*ap as due to the coding it repeats the instructions