Food grade smooth bore tank weight

When I was driving for Button I could haul 52,000lbs of product.

 

Milk comes out to about 8.6 pounds and that's reaching deep into my bag.

Tankers we had did not figure gallons capacity but rather the average weight. I generally got about 33000 pounds give or take a little bit daily. One farm was shipping 10,000 pounds daily give or take, and one only shipped 1800 with a very small number of cows.

There were a couple farms larger than that in western Maryland back then, a entire tractor trailer went to get theirs once a day and straight to Frederick to unload. Sometimes two trucks.

I recall certain very special over the road tankers coming to baltimore that were truly monsters relative to the one I had. These were bulk collectors far to the west (Probably Cumberland and beyond) and came in with sleeper trucks on very tight time schedules based on how long a tanker can hold a load of milk within a range of acceptable temperatures once loaded. (You had about 18 hours give or take before it's no good)

 

Depends on what you’re loading.

I can get 48k of def in my food grade and I’m right at 80k.

My tractor will be lighter than yours though. It’s a flat top Volvo with just a bunk. Not the big sleeper.

 

8500 gal smooth (h2o), overweight permitted to 100k GVW. God, I love running thru the Maine north woods.

Can't help you with an empty weight, LoJack.... sorry, man. It's really an individualized thing, many contingencies which determine that empty weight.




Even in junk like this:


Where the next morning you find yourself dragging your run mates off ice so your small team (20 guys right now) can get at it:



Isn't much else I'd rather do for 'work' right now.

 

Yeah I’d like that too. Ripping through the boondocks is the best driving.