5,000 evacuated after hazardous acid spill

That is one great idea

How the hell do you know? Do you have any idea what your talking about? I drive for a living and I can tell you this. Haz mat drivers take their job VERY seriously.

I would like you to tell me what safety measures and preparerations were lacking. You made the statement now back it up or go back to driving your little four wheeler. For all you know that man was attempting to avoid hitting some bonehead who was doing everything in his car but driving.

I will be checking back to see what you have to say about this.

13 hours later and nothing. Just as I fugured

look!!, that truck should have had a safty car in front of it around 400m ahead and 400m behind warning drivers that there was a truck carrying corrosive acid in front or behind it... the truck should have BEEN copvered on the inside to stop the corrosive acid from leaking and they should make sure that when runs like this are happening with toxic acid or chemicals that authorities and towns are warned just in case something happens.....
i was out all night yesterday so that was why i didn't respond mate!!!

do you have any idea how much that would cost? Not to mention the added emmissions from the millions of miles trucks run every year hauling haz mat. just think about all the loads of gasoline that are hauled every day. You really think 2 cars would do anything to prevent accidents from happening? or just add to the congestion on the highways? Insane idea.

yes i do and they would warn drivers when thewre is something dangerous coming towards them. in the mines where i work everytime there is some toxic, dangerous or flamable material coming from to the mines there are two safty cars in front and behind it and i believe that it will prevent people from getting caught in the action if an accident does happen

you obviously have no understanding of how many haz-mat loads are moved each and every day by truck or you wouldn't even suggest such an idea.

Do you realize that there are some 800,000 loads of haz-mat moved EVERY DAY in this country? thats an extra 1.6 million cars on the road every day. If you still think thats something you would support than I suggest calling you state reps and seeing what you can do about it.

Doing the math, thats an extra 426,000,000 trips a year those cars would be taking. Does that still sound realistic

alright!! noe that u put it that way i see how much it would cost and the amount of effort that would have to be done to get those safty cars, but here is another suggestion... they should wire up the cars with GPS devices, when they are travelling or on the road. so that they can track where every car is going. i know that it would take a fair amount of money and man power but it would be worth it to make sure that the truck makes it safly to it's destination...

Thank you for seeing it from the actual point of view. Trucks that carry haz-mat are already equiped with GPS type devices. They have been for a couple years now. Truck drivers that haul haz-mat go through a back ground check and get fingerprinted through the FBI although it is done at the local police station or DMV. they are regulated beyond belief. They are required to stop and log in their log books that they have checked their trucks out every 100 miles or 2 hours, depending on the type of driving they are doing....I.E. local city or long haul highway. Haz-mat drivers....depending on what type of haz-mat they are hauling are not even allowed to smoke in the cab of their trucks when it is going down the road or parked in a truck stop. I hauled haz-mat for a couple years but I just couldn't take the no smoking rules when they came out so I gave it up. I have driven for over 21 years and have over 2 million miles accident free. I'm glad I was able to give a little bit of information to you that you maybe didn't know before. Have a good day.

thank sfor helping me understand mate. and i now see ur point of view and where u are comming from....thuogh bet it would have been hell with the no smokinban

ALL trucks that carry Haz-mat are clearly marked on all sides. I know I drive for a living. 20 years plus accident free I might add.

And as far as cargo trains go, you mean the things where each car on the rail has 4 times the amount that a truck has and theres 100 or so cars per train so when they derail they don't just make a small accident they blow up towns, like in the case of the small town that nearly blew up in Wisconsin when the Wisconsin Central train derailed carry some 67 cars loaded with millions of gallons of propane? Yeah those are much safer and do far less damage. or when they go hauling ass down cajon pass into the L.A. basin from the top of cajon mountain and the brake lines are kinked and they have no brakes and the train derails all 100 or so cars and sends them into all the houses at some 65 miles per hour then ruputures the gas lines underground from the weight of the trains on the ground now instead of the rails. yeah those are much safer and by far less destructive.