RBoots

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This sucks, I saw it setting at the yard at our chloride supplier's shop. It isn't one of their trucks, but of a contractor. The frame rails are ripped vertically, nice shiny metal on the fractures. Hopefully it wasn't on the road when it happened, but chances are that it was. Looks like a lot of weight forward of the axle with it set back so far. The chloride that I haul from their well is just over 13 lbs per gallon from the ground so it weighs up pretty good. Just the chloride alone in my 6,250 gallon tanker weighs over 81,000 lbs. That little truck looks like a 1,500 gallon tank, so that would be over 19,500 lbs load on that little truck if it is indeed a 1500 gallon tank.
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That looks like TWO things caused that. First, that tank has NO baffles in it. And Second, someone made a "panic stop" and all of that weight came forward with no baffles to slow it down.

Don't ask me how I know this. OOPS!

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You can see that it is an old tank, so it was not a set-up that was properly engineered or speced.
 

We bought a truck a lot like that one a few years ago that had been used to haul chloride. The frame rails behind the cab where rusted almost completely into. If it hadn't been double framed it would have looked like the one in the pic.
We got it to use the engine and cab on another chassis.
 

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