Tanker Assesment

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jakethesnake:
PS I drove petrol tankers in London for many years by the way.

That’s nice, I drove milk tankers. Do you know what the difference between a petrol tanker and a milk tanker is? Yours has baffles and typically several compartments to prevent the fuel sloshing about. Milk tankers have NO baffles and are often one or two compartments so you have 20,000+ litres sloshing about with no baffles to slow it down unlike your petrol tanker.

Of course I know the difference having driven unbaffled tankers myself although only frequently compared to petrol tankers. I still say the scenario you mentioned would only happen through bad driving.

If you drive accordingly you can minimise the sloshing and the fact that you would plough into the vehicle in front by taking your foot off the footbrake.