Welding truck loaded with cylinders explodes

That is only supposed to happen in movies !!! Really though I just got my X endorsement 2 days ago and was considering applying for AirGas but this video may have changed my mind

 

Geez!


Most people outside of St. Louis probably wouldn't remember the big one here a few years back, but it was pretty crazy

 

That music just makes that video so much better.

 

That happened a long time ago, nobody should shy away from hauling cylinders those weren't secured properly and of the few videos I've seen of them exploding it usually happens in a foreign country where they don't give a #### about securement. Not saying it doesn't happen over here because it does, just not often and it usually involves somebody making a rather large screw up. I watch trucks with bottles on them every day come through town never think twice about them exploding. I'm still trying to figure out how they roll 2 bottles off the truck at once I'm not coordinated enough I guess.

It pays well hauling them as well linweld/Matheson is hireing a local position paying like 20.54/hr home every night pretty good money if you ask me long as your trained right and use your head I don't see it being any more dangerous than any other job.

I reckon I'd rather have bottles on than have flammable mixed with explosives...yes I realize that's a hazmat violation but I've seen it done a time or 2 before.

 

I just seen that praxair explosion on modern Marvel's Monday night. Crazy nobody got injured.

 

Uh, youtube-nocookie?

 

I want to know WTF the cop was thinking . If spectators have already established a perimeter of their own accord, WTH did the cop think it a good idea to get so much closer? Dumb@ss!

 

I haul a 45ft flatbed of flammable and non flammable cylinders 5 days a week. In and out of Chicago. Load securement on top of safe driving are of both the highest priorities. If that scenario were to happen to me, I'd be running away from there as fast as I could warning everyone else to do so. Once those things ignite, that's it. You have to get as far away as possible and let them cook off. The shrapnel will kill you from hundreds of feet away

 

A couple of those tanks shot off into the air like pop bottle rockets. Crazy that no one was killed.