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When a hazmat tanker parks next to you at the truck stop?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by TallJoe, Oct 24, 2022.

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  1. Oct 24, 2022 #21
    TallJoe

    TallJoe Road Train Member

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    Hauling hazmat has to absolutely put a driver onto next awareness level.
    No speeding and fooling around. Letting traffic frustration go off unrestrained is out of question.
    Hands on 10 and 14 all the time.
     
    TallJoe, Oct 24, 2022
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  3. Oct 24, 2022 #22
    REO6205

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    Something to think about? Not for very long. If a haz-mat load next to you cooks off you'll never even know it.
     
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  4. Oct 24, 2022 #23
    TallJoe

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    To think about of what it would take to cook it off while parked as your truck stop neighbor.
    The very cooking off is easy to imagine...it was also well depicted in Treminator I and Terminator II.
     
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  5. Oct 24, 2022 #24
    TankerP

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    I think the scariest thing about driving hazmat is trying to comply with all the DOT bs. A while back I accidentally drove through the non hazmat section of the Phoenix I-10. My heart was thumping and I swore to every god that I’ll be a nice boy from now on if he keeps me from getting a ticket. The next day I did it again.
     
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  7. Oct 24, 2022 #25
    Chinatown

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    Yeah, when you're killed, you don't know it anyway.
     
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  8. Oct 24, 2022 #26
    TallJoe

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    It depends on what you believe...
    For instance, some movies show victims to leave their corpses and actually look at what just happened...at times even shaking their heads in disapprobation of how something that reckless and preventable ended abruptly their earthly existence.
     
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  9. Oct 24, 2022 #27
    Chinatown

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    Yeah, but I believe as soon as someone is killed, it ends there. That belief keeps some people going, feeling that "When you're killed, you don't know it anyway."
     
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  10. Oct 24, 2022 #28
    RubyEagle

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    I have moved
     
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  11. Oct 25, 2022 #29
    D.Tibbitt

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    I honestly never noticed .. As long as the dude that parks next to me doesn't bash into my truck , then thats all i care about
     
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  12. Oct 25, 2022 #30
    D.Tibbitt

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    Are you talking about going thru the short tunnel section downtown? They built that new 202 bypass so u dont have to take that i17 hazmat bypass. Not sure if 202 is hazmat friendly or not that is out of my area of expertise. Always a #### ton of traffic on that i10 i17 truck/hazmat route
     
    D.Tibbitt, Oct 25, 2022
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