If a milk truck stops behind you at a red light, hope it's full. A full tank can't slosh, but a milk truck fills up farm by farm, so it often rides half empty. When it brakes, the milk keeps going: the wave slams into the front of the tank and can shove the whole stopped truck forward. Fuel tankers break that wave up with baffles, walls inside the tank full of holes. In the US, a milk tanker isn't allowed a single one: sanitation rules forbid them, because they can't be scrubbed clean. (Some countries' dairy tankers do have baffles.) Sources: US model CDL manual, Section 8, Tank Vehicles (Oregon DMV edition: §8.2.2 ‘Danger of Surge’, §8.2.4 ‘Baffled Tanks’, §8.2.5 ‘Un-Baffled Tanks’) · NTI, ‘Dairy Tanker Basics’ (Australia) #trucks #physics #milk #engineering
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Friend of mine used to haul molasses. It was even worse because you would stop and the surge wouldn't hit until 10 sec later
as someone who works at a dairy factory the trucks we use simply have 5 completely separated sections to archive a similar effect without dead zones
wow thats baffling
“It’s half empty” oh we got a reaaal pessimist here
My grandpa hauled for USDA for 30 years, it rocks the truck a bit but it doesn't "shove" the thing anywhere. He used to slosh it on purpose when he'd park for the night so it would rock him to sleep in the bunk 😂😂
Milk ❌ After 1000 stop signs Butter ✅
there is baffle in cittern truck so liquid don't just move around and cause the truck to louse control , if they don't they have to be full or empty
Milk tankers have baffles
I love how this has music like it's a fucking movie with something devastating about to happen 💀
This is called the free-surface effect, and it is one reason why ships carrying oil or other liquids can be dangerous to operate in a storm. As the vessel rolls, the liquid cargo will shift, potentially making the ship lose stability or roll too far. Water sloshing across a ferry’s vehicle deck can have a similar effect and contribute to the vessel capsizing.
i can't take this anymore
Grandfather owns a Frieghtliner for a project to work on. He once was asked to deliver a tank trailer for a milk farm because the trailers’ original truck had crashed on the way there. I was with him at the time, and I can confirm when we looked inside the trailer that there are 5 or 6 separate sections instead of just a big tube
Waves are genuinely some of the most terrifying things in the world along with tornadoes, no order, no stopping, relentless noise energy & destruction
one time, my dad had a job like this. he was a Pitch trucker. All those years of stopping built up, sent the truck flying real fast. Blew apart half the nation.
i dont really think ben shapiro's sister is gonna stop behind me
That's why milk trucks are divided into sealed compartments.
Wow thats not baffling
why milk specifically 😭
folks, while it might be ai, atleast the creator put the source.
So that's where dad went when the mom got pregnant...