A tank truck, gas truck, fuel truck, or tanker truck (American English) or tanker (British English) is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquids or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars, which are also designed to carry liquid loads. Many variants exist due to the wide variety of liquids that can be transported. Tank trucks tend to be large; they may be insulated or non-insulated; pressurized or non-pressurized; and designed for single or multiple loads (often by means of internal divisions in their tank). Some are semi-trailer trucks. They are difficult to drive and highly susceptible to rollover due to their high center of gravity, and potentially the free surface effect of liquids sloshing in a partially filled tank.[1]
- ^ Zheng, Xue-Lian; Zhang, Hao; Ren, Yuan-Yuan; Wei, Ze-Hong; Song, Xi-Gang (2017). "Rollover stability analysis of tank vehicles based on the solution of liquid sloshing in partially filled tanks". Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 9 (6). doi:10.1177/1687814017703894. S2CID 115027397.