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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.

5 Tips For Finding Reliable Chemical Tanker Capacity

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Finding Reliable Chemical Tanker Capacity can be a Challenge…

It should come as no surprise to the bulk liquid manufacturer that finding reliable chemical tanker capacity is becoming increasingly demanding.

This is to say that they want the right product at the right time at the right time and at the right cost.

What should prove even less surprising to the manufacturer of bulk goods that include everything from biomass and foodstuffs to petrol and adhesives (just to name a few) is the increasingly constrained shipping environment.

Not only are there not enough skilled carriers or third-party contract drivers, but there is far fewer chemical tankers on the road, which means higher costs for producers since demand for certified carriers far outweighs the supply.

So, and is similarly the case in the housing market, when carriers have the market advantage, they can charge exorbitant rates regardless of whether the truck goes LTL or cubed-out.

What’s more, not only can this erode relationships and partnerships between manufacturers and drivers, but it can also result in delayed customer shipments and broken contracts that hurt both parties’ bottom lines.

But what can bulk liquid producers do in order to avoid these less-than ideal outcomes so as to ensure that both carriers and customers are left with nothing but a high-quality, affordable, reliable experience with their chemical tanker capacity?

This brief guide will not only provide the manufacturer with a critical first pass at rebuilding relationships, but help educate carriers and the bulk-shipping industry, writ large, on how best to partner in this increasingly constrained operational environment.

Tip 1:  Increase communication and establish a reliable cadre of liquid bulk carriers

Sometimes less is more.

Too often manufacturers and liquid bulk shippers look for the lowest cost carrier for reliable chemical tanker capacity, which can cause more headaches than it solves.

As an analogy, think about flying a budget airline. The idea here is that the customer (you and your end user) usually gets what is paid for, which is to say a less-than reliable experience that may or may not hold quality and safety above all else.

As previously mentioned, the number of carriers out there at the moment is very small and some charging the least may not understand the need to be ISO 9001 compliant as well as the importance of maintaining their wash records, among other critical information.

That said, it’s important to communicate deadlines and schedules as far in advance as possible so as to hold one another accountable.

Both of these aspects will be discussed still further, below, but are important when initially seeking to find a new, or more reliable bulk liquid carrier.

Tip 2:  Create contingency plans to account for liquid tank carrier service failures

This is to say that manufacturers should plan for the unexpected. Just one ‘miss’ in the shipping process, be it paperwork or a late arrival, can have shockingly large ripple effects felt most often by end users.

Thus, it is absolutely imperative for both the biomass producer as well as the dairy farmer to think about all the things that might go wrong by performing a comprehensive risk analysis alongside their trusted carriers.

Additionally, and before signing any contracts, liquid bulk producers should look to write their own contracts around standard operating procedures that include, but are not limited to what carriers are responsible for in case of a plant shutdown, equipment failure, product loss or shrinkage, and compliance violations.

In setting clear operating procedures and having carriers sign or initial each line item, it will be far easier to hold the drivers accountable in the event of a missed delivery or pickup.

Tip 3:  Safety, Quality, and Accountability 

Not only are standard operating procedures critical when building, rebuilding, or crafting partnerships between bulk product suppliers and carriers, but so are other process-related aspects of ensuring a smooth shipping process from start to finish.

It should go without saying, therefore, that liability insurance should be at the fore of any contract as well as who is to be responsible for the safe loading and hookup process during pickup and delivery as well as which party is meant to provide the data-driven and live-tracking updates for the end user.

Additionally, and in terms of safety, emergency procedures should be in place as well as practiced annually, if not more frequently.

Tip 4:  Build flexibility into your bulk chemical supply chain!

With couriers maintaining the upper hand in the bulk transportation environment, being honest and flexible makes every step of the brokerage process easier, which means the producer is likely to receive preferential treatment when it comes to last-minute or urgent scheduling changes when securing reliable chemical tanker capacity.

This is not to say that producers should stop building and communicating their 3-, 6-, and 12-month forecasts, but that collaborate with end users as well as couriers in order to ensure that all schedules are met and that no excessive shipping constraints are being added to already overtaxed drivers and manufacturers.

Again, this goes back to effective and transparent communication as well as the removal of all buffering and stockpiling so that all parties know the true cost of doing business (and can act accordingly!).

Tip 5:  Build long-term, strategic partnerships with bulk chemical brokers

Knowing who to trust and which carriers can be trusted with hundreds of thousands of dollars in liquid product is a challenging business decision that many production facilities face daily.

Add to that the new brokers and drivers trying to get in on the good times afforded by the current operational environment, and the complexities surrounding the selection of responsible liquid bulk chemical tanker capacity can start to feel overwhelming.

That said, building long-term, or strategic, partnerships should focus on process and not the person.

Making sure that carriers have their ISO certifications in place alongside quality work references only means that everyone is protected should their be a miss in shipper, receiver, carrier, manufacturer, or end-user responsibilities.

While some drivers prefer to nickel and dime carriers to get the cheapest rate, this not only results in a lost channel in which to deliver bulk goods, but also tarnish a company’s image, brand, and reputation. This puts companies in a very weak position to secure the most reliable chemical tanker capacity.

It takes time to find the right bulk freight broker, but taking the time upfront with research will pay dividends in the long-run. Simple consider the following key takeaways:

  • Lower rate: Loyalty goes far in the transportation industry and often this will be rewarded with lower rates
  • Exclusivity: Brokers and carriers favor familiar customers. Having a strong relationship will typically jump your freight to the front of the line when capacity is tight.
  • Lower workloads: As a broker learns your business, you’ll have far fewer business-related and paper-work oriented responsibilities, which means you will see more time spent doing value-added activities such as looking to grow your customer base or scale your product offerings.

If you have a liquid bulk shipment and would like to partner with total connection to find the most reliable chemical tanker capacity, simply give us a call in the office today to discuss your specific needs or fill out the form on this page and we’ll get back to you right away!