Reply #21: Take off the tinfoil hats. [View All]

[Silverhair]

I am an ex-trucker and have take big rigs over that same highway. It does save over 100 miles if you are going from Denver to Salt Lake City. There is nothing wrong with taking the route with a truck. I have also taken trucks over Hoover Dam many times, Hwy 50 in Nevada, Hwy 89 in Utah, & Rte 6 around the tunnel at Loveland Pass in Colorado and many, many other interesting roads.

If you know what you are doing in the truck, there is no problem. If you screw up, there can be problems.

With as many trucks as are on the road, sometimes some drivers screw up. And sometimes some of those screw-ups will involve a hazardous load. Explosives are used for LOTS of other stuff besides the military. So it is inevitable that sooner or later, somebody will screw up.

Regarding the need to keeps the blasting caps in the glove compartment. I don't think the glove compartment is big enough to hold several pallet loads of caps. They were probably well cushioned against shock by the packing material. After all, it wasn't shock that set them off, it was heat.

Regarding the lack of warning placards. I would want to know more details. Certainly explosives require placards, and special signs.

If you rush to blame W everytime for anything that happens, you end up losing ALL credibility.

Sometimes, shit just happens.

Edit: typo