Prohibited Truck, Plus Hazmat Plus Atlanta Plus 4 wheeler stopped. equals...

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  1. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Baltimore is rather generous when it comes to hazmat restrictions. If you are from there, it's common sense really. Those arent where you are going to have a problem, lol. Look under some of the major non freeway bridges around the city.

    One other thing. Container man was not making a move long after the car made some decisions and started moving. Even then there was maybe some time for a attentive driver to get the big truck out of the way (Im beginning to consider a suicide/large payout accident on purpose now..) and you do not swerve those 20 foot containers because they will lay you down as that one did. It is concerning to me that there was no one essentially OUT of there for a while after she went down.

    The only other information I don't have here is the 4 digit UN id number of the product. You would think the Reporters will be hyping and making drama of the oh so dangerous class 8 frieight diamond.
     
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  3. lovesthedrive

    lovesthedrive R.I.P.

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    Wow. Doesnt surprise me one bit. The four wheeler trying to reverse direction on a freeway. Hope they had to go to hospital and had some form of mental checkup. Then again, idiots like these thin themselves.
     
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    http://www.ajc.com/news/traffic/bot...-crash-chemical-spill/RkAp9HQ1Vm9OtcYwpt8yzO/
     
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    After this I can guarantee APD and Georgia DPS are gonna increase their patrols on highways inside the perimeter. And the truck driver and/or company are gonna have one big cleanup bill.
     
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    Raezzor Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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    50 gallons aint much. That's practically starvation wages for a big truck, if it were a human. 250 miles and all gone in less than 5 hours. How far is Rome? two hours maybe? What kind of cheapstake?

    Trucker did see the situation developing but he was not captured until he was caught running AWAY from the problem. Is that right? Who does he think he is? Wrong Way Bundy or something that can disappear considering the mountains of paper work it takes to get someone to even hand the keys to a big truck?

    Don't give too much weight to my thoughts. I hope that when I think things through I open doors and really get to the bottom of this thing. Ive been told in the past I should have gone into Law Enforcement as a hunter of bad guys. But I know that its not suited for me because I want to really take out the bad guy and it would be most difficult not to. But that does not mean there is a mental health problem like the internet makes it out to be. Live leak just has a video slamming year old babies face down onto the floor to enforce a nap time. Is it so wrong to want to kill that slammer>? Or better yet whistle up the Undertaker or something big to show up and slam HER at bedtime?
     
  8. mjd4277

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    Rome is about an hour or 55 miles From ATL. 50 gallons is about 1/4 tank for most trucks,maybe he was trying to travel light in case he hit a scale house enroute.
     
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    That is the other thing Mjd4277, That 20 foot box flopped down on him like it's freaking 70,000 pounds of gold bricks from knox or something.

    150 gallons of liquid splasing about does not wag a 18 wheeler dog.
     
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    I know,but those short length containers aren't exactly known for being stable in turns. Add the fact that it was loaded with hazmat liquids and basically you have a tanker yanker disguised as a container
     
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