I heard on tv news while working that Intelligence sources for Homeland Defense or was it Homeland Security stated that Gas Tankers are going to be used as suicide tankers before Sept. 19th in multiple areas in major cities acroos the US at one time.
The aim is to bring down the economy.
Maybe I read it here. Don't remember.
IMO when the threat is leaked it usually proves false.
I think the threat originated in the UK and they had some pretty specific info .. so I think our people are just trying to make truckers and others aware of the potential.
It's really scary to me because my son drives a cross-country truck - but at least it's not a gas tanker.
I was nearly run over by a tanker truck a few days ago on Interstate 5 in a suburb of Portland, Oregon.
It was straight out of a movie: A really ugly, old, unkempt, junker of a tanker truck, driving really recklessly... moved over into my lane suddenly w/o using his turn signal until he was on top of me. Fortunately, I had room to move to my right. I watched the guy - he then cut back in the other lane, again w/o using his turn signal until the last second, and he cut in right behind another big rig. Right behind = less than ONE CAR LENGTH, and we were going 60 mph. He proceeded to drive aggressively - somewhere between "rudely" and "recklessly" - up the freeway towards downtown Portland as I took my exit.
I hated to be paranoid, but I couldn't help thinking about big-rig related terrorism... practicing, etc.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get any identifying info off the truck because, like I said, it was an old, unkempt piece of junk and I only had about a mile before my exit. I would have called the Police, but w/o any identifying info, I didn't think it would do any good to report it. In retrospect, I should have made the call and let the Police decide. My error.
It wasn't a fuel tanker, it looked more like a tar tanker or something because there were black liquid spills all over the tanker (poor maintenance, shoddy cleanup, etc.).