What causes trucks to burn?

No, but a truck that rear-ended a heavy truck stopped in the road is likely to burn. It takes an impact with a fixed object such as stationary bridge support or heavy object (truck stopped in the road) to cause ruptured tanks of the offending vehicle. And with all of the super hot "mufflers" situated right between the tanks in today's class 8 trucks it's, no wonder.

 

You know the "myth" that you can drop a match in a bucket of diesel and the match will just go out? It's not a myth. I witnessed a couple of my soldiers doing this in Afghanistan. This after they tried and failed in burning the quarter sized ants out of their hole in the ground with JP8 (diesel)...The things you do when bored.

Anyways, as some of the other posters have pointed out diesel in unpressurized form won't ignite easily. The vapors sure will and the sparks caused by various metal objects impacting each other and the pavement in an accident make for a perfect ignition source when either your tanks or fuel lines break open. The truck will burn down to the rails within minutes in a lot of wrecks largely due to the insulation and plastics found inside the cab. I've seen it firsthand and it's not pretty.

 

Its all about air to fuel ratio, each protrolium product has a optimal flash point. Gasoline ingnights very easily, kerosene and diesel not as easily, but still pretty close. Some of you make it out like its trying to light water on fire, LOL. It does have more BTU's per gallon, but does not burn as hot or as fast.

IMHO trucks burn to the ground because of all the plastic, once it gets going its over.

All fuel burns via the vapors, not the liquid, LOL.

 

Diesel fuel has a typical sustained flame range of 900 - 1300 Celsius vs. 450 - 600 Celsius for unleaded fuels, LOL.

 

What causes trucks to burn ? near repossession and great fire insurance.

 

There's a term for that... but I'd probably get banned.

 

Well sorry, your write, I guess you can't believe everything you here on the internet

 

It has to be true if it's on the internet !!! lol

 

I soak the logs and ground with some good diez and my fire is STILL burning the next morning and the beer bottles are all melted flat and the beer cans are ash. I soak and start it with gas and I still got a mess of broken bottles and charred but whole beer cans to get rid of in a cold fire pit. Goes up with a YouTube worthy WHOOSH but just doesn't sustain or maintain. The diez fire gets hot enough to bust the bricks around the pit. Pop pecans like M-80's (which gets interesting in the fall leaf burning. Pecan trees are proliferous with their shedding and I got ten in the yard. Country fireworks. LOL). Gas don't do none of that.

This was posted for the numerically challenged. LOL. Just a country [expletive deleted] that knows you don't burn trash or any thing else you want "gone" with gas. You use diesel or else all you burned up was the paper or thin plastic. You want ash? Diez It.

Now if y'all will 'scuse me; I have to go study for my HazMat endorsement test. Never needed one before. Seems I have a need for one now. Seems like a whole lot of whooey to say:

This is some bad stuff. Don't mix it, don't smoke around it, don't just throw it in the back any old way, don't park it on a train track or by other bad stuff and if it's leaking . . . run like hell but leave the bills where the fire department can know why you ran so they can run too and get the cops to get everyone else rubbernecking to run too. LOL.

 

Depends on what day of the week it is. That's what the internet tells me, anyhow.

Depends on the position of the stars. That's what the internet told me after the internet told me the "day of the week" thing wasn't true.