Are your trucks transporting oil, chemicals, or other hazardous materials? What are you doing to protect the environment? Here's how truck spill kits can help you prevent big problems for a very low investment.
Trucks may look big, but when they transport hazardous materials, they're vulnerable.
Their heavy loads have the potential of causing big problems.
First of all, their sheer size makes them harder to maneuver.
And their weight and the fact that they tend to be top-heavy can mean that a curve that turns out tighter than expected can easily cause a roll-over accident.
Then what? Sometimes you may just find that your big rig's tank has sprung a leak.
Either way, you better be prepared.
Calling for assistance when the leak or spill has already happened will mean that you lose valuable time during which the chemicals will be able to spread and cause big damage.
Just how much damage such a situation can cause depends on how much liquid gets spilled, and where it spills.
If it's on a parking lot, the damage will be easier to clean up than if it happens on the side of a road, possibly near a stream or swampy area.
So how can you be prepared? You need to have supplies for several eventualities: big spills and small leaks or spills.
You can handle small leaks or spills by having suitable truck spill kits handy.
They're available as oil only, hazmat or universal kits.
Just be sure to get one or several for the kind of substances you usually transport.
Next, you also need to be prepared for larger spills.
In those cases, you need more than just absorbents to mop things up.
You'll have to contain the spill first to make sure it won't spread any further and cause more damage to the environment.
The perfect tools for containing such spills are spill berms, or possibly spill booms, especially if your route takes you near water on a regular basis.
You may also want to keep some of each with you.
If you are dealing with a spill on land, just arrange the spill berms around it and the oil, hazmat chemical, or other chemical will stay within the bounds of the berms.
Now you can go ahead and deploy your truck spill kits and clean things up.
Of course, this means that you should also have plenty of absorbents handy.
But in a pinch, those can be brought in later, just as long as you have your spill well contained.
Still, be sure to keep at least some truck spill kits handy.
They can make quick work of minor leaks or small spills.