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A tank truck for a milk delivery parked in front of the Satamaito dairy in Pori, Finland. Tank trucks are described by their size or volume capacity. Large trucks typically have capacities ranging from 21,000 to 44,000 litres (5,500 to 11,600 US gal; 4,600 to 9,700 imp gal).
On the left is a 27,399-US-gallon (103,716 L; 22,814.4 imp gal) capacity tank car with a load limit of 196,500 pounds (89,100 kg), making it suitable for low specific gravity liquids. On the right, a lighter, smaller 16,640-US-gallon (62,989 L; 13,856 imp gal) capacity tank car has a higher load limit of 204,300 pounds (92,700 kg).
These distinctive 6000-gallon (5,000 imp gal; 23,000 L) Borden milk tank cars for bulk loading were first built in 1936. [3] Increased availability of motor vehicles after World War I encouraged bulk transport of milk to minimize inefficient handling, washing and redistribution of milk cans. A standard 46.5-US-quart (44.0 L; 38.7 imp qt) milk ...
The tanker is designed to be towed by a 5-ton, 6x6 truck tractor or similar vehicle equipped with a fifth wheel. The M970 can be loaded through the bottom or through the top fill openings. A ladder is provided at the front of the semitrailer for access to the top manhole, and a 4-cylinder diesel engine and pump assembly provides self load ...
The car's underframe included all of the modern facets of freight car design including roller bearing trucks and cushioning devices built by FreightMaster, while the tank that rode on it, made of Douglas fir, had a capacity of 17,100 US gallons (65 m 3; 14,200 imp gal). The car, in what has been called 'the largest wooden tank car ever built ...
East Ky. 80 at the intersection of U.S. 27 was closed down for several hours after a milk truck overturned. First responders said that the driver of the truck was uninjured, but several agencies ...
One of the largest container ships to call on the U.S., the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, carries approximately 4.5 million gallons of fuel oil. Ship fuel capacity is generally converted to ...
Typical pre-World War I scene of milk churns waiting to be picked up by the milk train, recreated at Quorn and Woodhouse station on the preserved Great Central Railway. Post grouping in 1923, of the 282,000,000 imperial gallons (12,800,000 hL; 339,000,000 US gal) of milk transported by rail by all four national railways companies, [1] the Great Western Railway had the largest share of milk ...