How Much Oil Can a Big Truck Hold?

A tanker truck is a big truck. It carries lots of oil. But how much oil can it hold? Let’s find out!

Tanker trucks can hold different amounts of oil. The amount depends on the size of the tank that is on the truck. Some trucks are small. Some are very big.

How Much Oil Can It Carry?

Here is a list that shows what differnt tanker trucks can hold:

• Small trucks carry about 300 to 1,000 gallons of oil.
• Medium trucks carry about 3,000 to 5,000 gallons.
• Big trucks carry about 8,000 to 11,600 gallons.
• Very big trucks can have more than one tank, these can hold bewtween 12,000-43,000 gallons.

A gallon is a way to measure oil. It is like a big jug of milk. One gallon is a lot of oil!

What is a Barrel?

• 1 barrel is the same amount as 42 gallons.
• Small trucks: 7-24 barrels.
• Meidum trucks: 71 – 119 barrels.
  *Big Trucks: 190-276 barrels.
• Huge Trucks, 289-1,024 barrells.

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How Much Oil in a Tanker Truck? (Table)

Truck Type	Gallons of Oil	Barrels of Oil	More Info
Small oil truck	300-1,000	7-24	These are for delivering to homes. They use smaller trucks.
Medium truck with three axles	3,000-5,000	71-119	Good for short trips and carrying gasoline.
Normal big oil truck for roads	8,000-11,600	190-276	In one place, they need 526 of these trucks every day to move 100,000 barrels of oil!
Very Big Truck with Two Tanks	12,000-43,00	289-1024	Some can even hold up to 16,800 gallons, but they need special papers.
Truck just for carrying crude oil	8,400-16,800	200-400	Made to keep the oil safe and follow the rules.
Truck that carries gasoline (not crude oil)	9,000	214	This is the normal size to carry gasoline to gas stations

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What is Crude Oil?

Crude oil is oil that in it’s raw form from the ground. It is black and sticky. We need to clean it to make gasoline.

Oil is very important. We use it to make gasoline for our cars, such as these high-capacity carbon steel refueling trucks. We use it to heat our homes. We use it to make many things, like plastic.

How Do We Move Oil?

We use tanker trucks to move oil from one place to another. The trucks that go long ways on the road are big. They are about 8,000 to 11,600 gallons.

For example, many tanker trucks are needed in the Permian Basin.The Permian Basin is a place in Texas and New Mexico. There is a lot of crude oil there. To move 100,000 barrels of oil each day, they need over 500 tanker trucks!

Why Can’t Trucks Carry More Oil?

There is something that affects the amount of oil one tanker truck carries.
Laws. Laws say how heavy a truck can be. If a truck is too heavy, it can hurt the roads. It can also be hard to stop.
A truck that has 80,000 lbs is the max gross vehicle weight in the United States . This is the total. The truck and the oil.
Each state can make small changes.

How much do different trucks cost?

A smaller three-axle truck carrying three to five thousand gallons of oil will be much more afforable that a large supe tanker.

Supertankers are very, very big ships that hold the most oil. Supertankers can carry around 2,000,000 barrels of oil.

Tanker Trucks and Oil Tankers

Tanker Trucks are the trucks we are talking about, but Oil Tankers are something else.
Oil tanker ships are very, very big! They carry much more oil than tanker trucks. They go on the ocean and don’t go on the road.

What are all the different Oil Tanker sizes?

Here is a list that shows the sizes of Oil tankers:

• 20,000 ton
• 500,000 ton
• more than 250,000 tons, which are also called Supertankers
  TCE(Time charter equivalent) TCE is how the oil tanker and tanker truck business figures out how much money it costs to take cargo from on place to another.

VLCC(Very Large Crude Carrier) The VLCC carrues crude oil. They can carry up to 2,000,000 barrels of oil. This is much more than tanker trucks.

Other Types of Tankers

There are not only Tankers for oil. There are also:

• Aframax
• Suezmax
• MR

Aframax and Suezmax are types of oil tankers.
The MR is a tanker that carried refined oil. Refined oil is oil that we can use. We refine it at a refinery.

What is a Refinery?

A refinery is a big place with lots of machines. It cleans crude oil. It makes the crude oil into gasoline and other things.

Where Does Oil Come From?

Oil comes from deep in the ground. People drill holes to get the oil. The holes are called oil wells.
Sometimes, the oil wells are far from the refineries. Tanker trucks can fill the gaps in the network to bring oil from the oil wells to the refineries.
Tanker trucks are an important part of the global petroleum supply chain.

What is the Future of Tanker Trucks?

There is a lot of talk about alternative fuel technologies. This means we will burn something other than oil in the future.
Alternative fuel techonologies may change how we use tanker trucks. It may be used for new new things.

What About the Future of the Oil Market?

There are many things that will change the oil market. Some things might be:

• Oil tanker market growth.
• Oil trade routes.
• Oil demand.

People will always need to transport oil.
It is good to know how much oil a tanker truck can hold. These big trucks are very important. They help us get the oil we need in our lives!

Other Important Words

• Global petroleum supply chain: This is how we get oil from the ground to your car.
• Fuel tank: fuel tanks can be found in small sizes. For Example, a Fuel Truck with a 12.6m³ Diesel Engine shows that these trucks can be efficient.
• Fuel tankers: These trucks carry gasoline, not crude oil.
• Gallons
• Barrels
• BIMCO: This is a group that knows a lot about ships.
• Refineries
• ZipRecruiter: This comapny knows a lot about jobs.
• Chinatanktruck.com: This is a website for a company that sells tanker trucks.