Tank Tribe
Are you proud of your daily work
and feel that you speak the same language as we do?
With #TankTribe we want to promote your working experience. You are the main actor, engaged every day in the field and you can count on a Padoan tank at your side. Through your stories and your pictures you become part of the "tank tribe". Tales and pictures combine work and passion, quality and excellence of your vehicle and represent a success. We will use social media channels, web activities and events to give you visibility and to make #TankTribe bigger and bigger.
Send us the stories and the photos of your adventures, become part of #TankTribe!
TANKTRIBE – 4-XTREMES: Small details make a big difference
Here in South America, it’s not unusual to regularly cross mountain passes or travel through regions higher than the 4600m high Mont Blanc, the highest mountain of the Alps.
Most of the time, we only think about whether we or the vehicle’s engine can handle it.
When we stop we might notice that a shampoo has popped open or a food container has deformed because of the extra pressure. However, we rarely consider the effects such heights might have on other vehicle components, like our diesel tanks.
To visually demonstrate this, we captured the effect of the decreasing atmosphere pressure on a bag of chips. As we reached a height of 3900m the bag burst!
Luckily our tanks did not. But it’s not luck, it all comes down to engineering.
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