Posted on 08/13/2005 7:21:02 PM PDT by FairOpinion
They can blow up the one the corner from me....$2.79 a gallon.
Ping to post #8
This is really frightening. The first think I though of...how many truckers just 'pull over' and sleep at rest stops over night. What protection do they have if someone wants to take their truck? Will drivers have to start driving with a partner so that one can always be awake/alert...think of what that would do to the economy with the added costs carried by consumers.
Tunnels will be particularly vulnerable, could kill everyone inside.
My local station hasn't changed the prices since last time I filled up, yesterday. Of course, they are closed on the weekend except for credit cards.
Truckers are already clued in to suspicious traffic. I haven't met in trucker in the past decade who wasn't fairly alert to the environment.
A co-worker's son drives for a food company. He told his mom about the precautions he has to take w/hookers at rest stops. Those ladies are a nuisance...this threat is the stuff of nightmares.
I think at least some tunnels don't allow fuel trucks.
In LA, there is a tunnel for cars right under the LAX airport and there are posted signs saying that no trucks allowed, but if the terrorists decide to step on the gas pedal, how are they going to stop them?
Anti-terror training teaches doormen, truckers to be vigilant
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/nation/12324430.htm
In the last year, about 6,000 doormen, superintendents and other workers at residential buildings have received four hours of training from police officers in the basics of terror-spotting, part of a nationwide trend by unions, trade groups and homeland-security agencies to beef up anti-terror defenses with citizens' brigades. A similar effort to train Chicago doormen began this year, and truck drivers, recreational boaters and school bus drivers are among the other groups signing up to keep watch.
Another group being called upon to serve as extra eyes and ears is the nation's 3.2 million truck drivers.
The American Trucking Association runs a training program called Highway Watch, which has instructed 115,000 drivers in the basics of spotting a terror plot in the making and how to report it. In a one-hour session at truck terminals or in hotel meeting rooms, drivers learn to be on the lookout for people casing a truck terminal or asking suspiciously detailed questions.
If truckers see something suspicious, they are instructed to call a hotline. Most of the calls have been about accidents or hazardous road conditions, but in several instances, calls have been forwarded to the association's information-analysis center, whose staff includes former employees of federal intelligence and law-enforcement agencies.
In one case, an instructor at a Michigan truck-driving school who had been through the Highway Watch training program became suspicious of 10 men who claimed to have worked as truckers and had been sent to the school by a trucking company for evaluation.
But they lacked basic truck-driving skills, and their credentials, including their commercial driving licenses, could not be confirmed. The instructor contacted the call center.
The resulting FBI investigation found that many of the men had immigration violations, and several of their names appear on a terrorist watch list although the trucking association says some of the names are common and may refer to other people.
That is really good to know. Enough can't be said about being alert and trusting our instincts if something doesn't seem quite right.
Good question.
We have two tunnels here under Mobile Bay and one of them is I-10 but, we are small fry compared to other potential high profile targets. I would be guarding the Holland Tunnel, they had plans once to 'hit' it but were caught before succeeding.
Buy your gas early in morning before there's a crowd at the gas station.
Do truckers with dangerous loads stop for overnight? Gasoline? Explosives? No. They go to their destination immediately.
they think that driving petrol trucks into filling stations and exploding them will cause the US economy to collapse??
Why are we attacking London?
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