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Liquid Bulk Transport Company

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Do you need a reliable and cost-effective liquid bulk transport service to ship your bulk chemical product? Look no further.

In all our 25 years of excellent logistics service at Total Connection, one of the services we most pride ourselves in is our liquid bulk transport. Here, we lavish our combined century of experience on making sure that whatever chemicals you wish to transport arrive at their destinations safely and without a drop in the quality of your goods.

Our bulk chemical transport service covers varieties of products, such as sensitive chemical materials, dangerous HAZMAT goods, food-grade products and so much more. But that’s not all we offer you. We also have the right connections with many major chemical suppliers in different areas to help you streamline your business’ chemical supply chain.

Our Commitment to Safe Chemical Transport

We understand it is your priority to offer your customers the best and most satisfactory services that help them achieve whatever purpose they use the services for. At Total Connection, our topmost priority is to help you achieve this through the safe transport of your bulk chemicals.

For this reason, we have affiliated ourselves with a regulatory body with incredibly high standards as regards chemical distributions, the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD). This shows our commitment to preserving lives, properties, and the reputation of your business through the safe transport and storage of your chemical products.

To ensure this high standard of safety, we have over 10,000 bulk liquid tanker carriers. And each has gone through a thorough screening process which comprises a 5-point carrier checklist. This checklist helps us to weed out substandard carriers while leaving the best ones with high-quality equipment to transport your chemicals.

Our 5-Point Checklist for Bulk Liquid Tanker Carriers

●      High industry credit worthiness.
Credit worthiness of a company is a strong sign of a stable bulk carrier’s infrastructure, so this is one of the first signs that we check.

●      Proven track record of safety and accident history.

We make sure that only transporters who have a clean history as regards accidents and safety can transport your chemicals.

●      Highly trained drivers with in-depth knowledge about handling and transporting sensitive hazardous materials.

Total Connection leaves no room for irresponsible driving, irrespective of whether we are transporting sparkling clean water or the most sensitive hazardous chemicals.

●      Updated equipment maintenance records.

Wouldn’t it be incompetent of us to tell you we couldn’t transport your products on time because we had some equipment breakdown? That is why we never let our carriers provide us with that same excuse. Instead, they provide us with up-to-date equipment maintenance records for all of their equipment.

●      Valid and reputable industry reference.

Even after a carrier scales through the four checklists above, they still need a reputable industry reference before we allow them to transport your liquid bulk chemicals.

We leave no stone unturned when it concerns the safety of your products. Total Connection fully commits to transporting your liquid bulk chemicals in the best conditions and as fast as possible.

What Liquid Bulk Transport Offerings Do Total Connection Have?

Here’s the short answer: Total Connection transports anything and everything that relates to chemicals. And as for the long answer? The liquid bulk transport that Total Connection offers fall into three major categories:

●      HAZMAT and Dangerous Chemical Transport

A high level of management standard is required for the transport of HAZMAT and dangerous chemicals. This is not surprising, as the effect they may have on the environment when they are mismanaged could be devastating. A chemical spill at a strategic highway could render the highway unusable. It could potentially lead to the loss of millions of dollars, as businesses that depend on the highway are unable to access it. Those unlucky enough to be caught at the scene of the accident may have to pay with their lives.

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This is why regulatory bodies keep updating their regulations on the transport of hazardous chemicals to ensure that lives and properties remain safe. A violation of the regulations could land your business in a lot of trouble. To help you avoid these unnecessary but costly mistakes, Total Connection offers you its highly trained and deeply experienced team to handle your HAZMAT and dangerous chemical transports.

The HAZMAT chemicals Total Connection transports include:

  • Corrosive materials
  • Explosives
  • Flammable liquids
  • Flammable solids
  • Gases
  • Oxidizers and organic peroxides
  • Poisons
  • Radioactive materials

●      Temperature Controlled Chemical Transport

You need a reliable temperature-controlled chemical transport service for the transport of temperature-sensitive chemicals.

Total connection offers you two main options of temperature-controlled chemical transport. One is through the use of tanker trucks fully equipped with in-transit heat. This is very useful for the transport of chemical substances that need to get to their destination at the same or a higher temperature at which they were loaded.

The other method is through tanker steaming, which steams the chemical substance at regular intervals during transport. As you might imagine, products whose temperatures you want to raise at delivery go in here.

There is so much more to gain when you depend on the decades of experience Total Connection has for your temperature-controlled chemical transport.

●      Agricultural Chemical Transport

Agriculture without chemicals is almost impossible, especially agriculture on a large scale. Farmers rely on chemicals for crucial purposes, including growth development, storage, preservation, and more. Without these chemicals in place, hunger looms.

Entrust the transport of your bulk agricultural chemicals with the wrong company and your farm may suffer for it. A slight drop in the quality of the transported chemicals could plummet your productivity and harm your profitability. Don’t take this risk with just any kind of liquid bulk transport service. Go for a reliable one.

So, if you need a company that can help with your bulk agricultural chemical transport, your search ends here. Total Connection has had decades to build up experience, trust among other businesses like yours, and healthy collaboration with many leading suppliers of agricultural chemical supply. The ultimate goal is to maintain the quality of the chemicals during transport so that your farm reaps increased productivity and profitability.

What You Need to Know About Bulk Liquid Transport Equipment

An enormous amount of effort goes into bulk chemical transport. There are many processes involved, and it is usually not as simple as getting your pizza delivered to you. Without helping the transport company to the proper knowledge of the chemical you want to move, there could be some costly mix-ups. This could lead to a reduction in the quality of the chemicals, which may dent your productivity and profitability. And that is only the best-case scenario.

Things could get way worse when a spillage occurs, potentially leading to inconvenient issues with regulatory bodies, total loss of products, and many more. And in all these scenarios, there isn’t one that could cost you less than thousands of dollars at best.

That is why it is important that you at least have a little understanding of the bulk liquid you intend to transport. That little understanding of your products would go a long way in helping us know the best transport equipment. We will ask you some simple questions to help us extract the information we need without wasting your time.

Key Questions that Help Us Pick the Best Equipment for Your Products

  • What is the product you’re shipping?
  • What is the nature of the chemical? (Is it toxic? Flammable? Temperature-sensitive?)
  • What is the layout of the loading plant?
  • What is the layout of the delivery plant?
  • Does the receiver have the ability to offload without a pump?
  • What kind of tank is the product delivering into?
  • What is the maximum offloading pressure your receiver can handle?
  • Is there any safety equipment or requirement at the receiver’s facility we need to know about?

From experience, we know that answers to these questions help us simplify the transport process by about 60% and reduce the risk of any mix-ups or costly mistakes by 75%. There are some more questions like these, and you can contact us to get more.

How these Questions Help Us Determine the Equipment We Use for Your Bulk Chemical Transport

After you provide answers to those questions, we can filter through our thousands of equipment to reach those that are perfect for your chemical products.

Questions on temperature, for instance, help us determine the best way to transport your chemicals according to your temperature requirement. We have in-transit heat trailers with steam coils in them to maintain the temperature of your chemical. There are trailers with other heating options which make them suitable for products that can be cooler or hotter at delivery than they were at loading.

When we ask questions that involve volume, we simply want to know what trailer size to bring to the party. Excessively big trailers could agitate your chemicals during transport, and it could lead to the foaming of the products. Anything could go wrong from there, especially with some sensitive chemicals. But tight-fitting trailers reduce agitation, cutting out unnecessary risks. Some of our trailers have compartments in them, so you need not worry if your product volume is less than our smallest trailer.

When you find pumps or compressors in the questions, we only want to know the best equipment for unloading your chemicals. We wouldn’t unload corrosive liquids with a pump, for instance, as the liquid could ruin the metal in the pump. Similarly, air compressors for unloading flammable liquid could be dangerous, as the static electricity could cause little sparks. And you know what happens when sparks meet flammable liquids.

Liquid Bulk Transport Tailored to Your Specific Needs

Total Connection offers you the best mix of experience, expertise, and affordability for the transport of bulk chemicals tailored to your specific needs.

If you have an urgent liquid bulk transport shipment or need a quote, call us. Our ever-friendly bulk chemical experts are eager to help get a quote for your shipment. And if you’d prefer an email, fill out our comprehensive liquid bulk quick-quote form below.

We look forward to hearing from you and servicing your liquid bulk transportation needs.

Temperature Controlled Chemical Transport

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Unlike moving freight in dry vans, temperature controlled chemical transport is done slightly differently due to several factors.  These can be depending on factors such as the nature of the product, the climate, the specific lane being shipped and requirements the receiver may have while delivering temperature controlled chemical transport.

Temperature controlled chemical transport can mean that the temperature of a liquid bulk chemical in a tanker trailer is either heated, cooled or maintained from the original state that it was loaded.

Many shippers will choose to ship temperature controlled chemicals in a liquid bulk tanker for many reasons including cost efficiency vs. tote shipping and ease of unloading a chemical tanker.

Methods of Temperature Controlled Chemical Transport

In Transit heat for tanker trucks

One of the ways to maintain or manipulate the temperature of a chemical substance during transport by tanker truck.  It is useful when a chemical substance needs to arrive at the destination at a temperature at or above the temperature at which it was loaded.

Why In-Transit Heat is useful

In transit heat is useful for substances prone to solidify at cooler temperatures.  A challenge that many temperature controlled chemical transport shippers face, especially in the winter months.  It is advantageous to other methods of transport because the equipment is so readily available.

How does In Transit Heat Work

In transit heat is delivered to the product through a network of coils that run through the bottom of a tank truck.  Antifreeze heated by the engine circulates through the coils near product in the tank providing a warm “blanket” to maintain the temperature.

In this instance, the actual heat provided depends on the temperature at which the engine is operating and can not be manipulated on a per case basis.

Steaming the Tanker

Another method of moving a temperature controlled chemical transport shipment is be steaming a product at regular intervals during the chemical tanker movement.  It is useful for products that need to arrive at a temperature much higher than that of which it was shipped.

Many shippers and receivers will opt to steaming trailers when there is any sort of unexpected delay that requires a carrier to remain loaded with a temperature sensitive liquid chemical longer than anticipated.

Why is Steaming A Tanker useful

It is useful because it allows for much faster heating of a large volume of liquids.  Steaming a trailer allows a solidified product to be salvaged after hardening in a trailer while in most cases maintaining the integrity of the loaded product.

How Steaming a Tanker Work

Steaming works by a liquid bulk tank driver bringing the loaded tanker to a station that provides steaming as a service.  Hot steam is run through a network of coils that surround the outside of the truck.  As searing hot steam is run through, the internal temperature of the product is monitored until it reaches the desired temperature.  From there the freight is delivered quickly before the heat dissipates or the steam is maintained until further direction is given from the shipper.

Time

Sometimes the most efficient method of cooling a tanker truck is good old-fashioned father time.  The natural insulation in the tanker truck allows hot products to be cooled to the desired temperature before delivery.

Of course with time accuracy is lost and actual temperatures are a little more unpredictable than the other methods of temperature controlled chemical transport.

If you need transporting a chemical that has strict temperature requirements, don’t let that integrity of it and the relationship with your customer to chance.  Hire a reliable liquid bulk carrier familiar with every option of temperature manipulation to move your chemical freight safely and on time.

Total connection is an experienced liquid bulk freight broker with over 30 years of experience in every industry.  Request a free liquid bulk quote today and one of our chemical experts will reach out right away and give you a cost-effective quote for the safe handling and on-time transport of your liquid chemical shipment.

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7 Ways to Make Your Chemical Cargo More Attractive to Liquid Bulk Carriers

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7 Ways to Make your chemical cargo more attractive to liquid bulk carriers

In an industry as competitive as trucking with many liquid bulk carriers often competing for the same lanes, its very common for liquid bulk trucking companies to develop “favorites” or premium shippers whose loads get preferential treatment over all others.  In a crowded market constantly strained by liquid bulk tanker capacity limitations it is more important now than ever to have an edge over the rest of the liquid bulk chemical industry competing for the same trucks.

In this article we will detail how you can do just that and give your chemical freight the edge it needs to move to the top of your broker and carriers load boards.

  1. Know Your Chemical Products

In order for your liquid bulk carriers to book trucks for your freight, it is important for you to know the ins and outs of the entire movement.  Liquid bulk carriers need to know things like the name of your chemical product, the loading and delivery hours, any special chemical trailer requirements and any other additional information you can provide. This makes your loads much more appealing to truck drivers and therefore more likely to be covered quickly.

Many liquid bulk carriers will ask you to provide an SDS (Safety data sheet) and to disclose any prior cargo requirements to prevent the possibility of contamination and to match your freight up with the proper equipment.

  1. Book High Volume Freight to Liquid Bulk Carriers

The most attractive freight to any liquid bulk carriers or brokers is freight that is recurring in nature.  Whenever you can present your liquid chemical freight as a recurring job, carriers will be more inclined to not only give you priority access to their bulk chemical equipment, but also premium rates because they know their trucks will always be loaded.

In addition, repeat business gives drivers the opportunity to get familiar with your product, customer, shipping and delivery staff to make for smoother pick-up and delivery processes meaning less surprise calls after hours.

  1. Pay Liquid Bulk Carriers Well.

Carriers care most about two things, getting paid well and getting paid fast.  Make sure you are always paying your carriers top dollar, especially if they continue to do a good job.  They will always pass on savings to you when they can.  If you work with a reputable liquid bulk chemical broker, make sure they have a strong credit rating so that you know for sure the carriers hauling your freight are being taken care of.

  1. Have Flexible Shipping Hours.

Remember, as well as brokers and liquid chemical freight carriers treat you, you are not the only customer in their portfolio.  There are many complexities to shipping each load to take into account such as driver time sheets, deadhead miles, drivers PTO, and more that need to be factored in to loading your chemical freight.

The more flexible you can be with your shipping hour requirements the more trucks that will be available to ship your loads at more competitive prices.

  1. Schedule in advance

The most successful supply chains are those planned well in advance.  This allows time for errors and to recover from unforeseen circumstances that plague any operation as complex as logistics.

Chemical freight booked in advance not only gives you chance to book premium carriers on your freight, but also the chance to recover a dropped load on the rare occasions that happens.  A good liquid bulk chemical broker will always be able to cover a dropped load at the last minute, optimally keeping your supply chain in check and on schedule.

  1. Keep yourself available

The crutch of the chemical freight industry is communication.  This can be used to your advantage or disadvantage on every shipment you book with a liquid bulk chemical carrier or broker.  The most harmful thing you can do as a chemical supply chain coordinator is to send your shipment to a carrier or broker and then disappear for the rest of the day.

Whether it’s time to close-up shop or you are taking some personal time off, its important that either you remain accessible while your shipment is in transit or you appoint someone to act in their place.

Reputable liquid bulk freight brokers like Total Connection employ a 24/7 event response team to monitor all loads in transit at all hours of the day and night.  If something happens, its important that we are able to notify you immediately to eliminate or minimize the possibility of unforeseen charges that can accrue very quickly.

  1. Build Relationships with Liquid Bulk Brokers

While it may seem great to work directly with liquid bulk carriers, there will be times that they do not have the capacity to cover some of your loads either due to scheduling or simple capacity shortages.  During time’s like these its important that you can rely on a reputable liquid bulk chemical cargo broker to help you source the capacity you need.

Brokers who specialize in liquid bulk freight like Total Connection have vast and extensive networks of carriers that you can tap into with a single phone call to double or triple the probability of getting your loads covered quickly and for the right price.  Having a single broker who is familiar with your freight requirements minimizes the time you need to spend searching for trucks and haggling with carriers over price.

Depend on Total Connection Logistics for your liquid bulk cargo shipping

Whether you are shipping hazmat chemicals, polymers, fertilizer, acrylates or any other liquid bulk chemical, Total Connection has likely shipped it over our 20+ years in business.  Our liquid bulk chemical experts have over 30 years of relationships and goodwill with the most reputable carriers in the industry.  Simply put, when Total Connection sends out a load list, our freight rises to the top.  We pay carriers quickly and let you enjoy the benefit of extended terms so that you can keep your cashflow strong and develop more business in the best interest of everyone.

Contact Total Connection today by phone or by any form on this website to see how we can help you move your liquid bulk chemical freight anywhere in the US or Canada.