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To: martin_fierro
I hope their insurance is paid up.

Something tells me that insurance on gasoline trucks doesn't cover the replacement of a bridge. Maybe it should since they can be very destructive.

There was a very small town near where I grew up. In the middle of this town the main road took a sharp turn. A gasoline truck once missed this turn. All that was left of the town was the bank vault. In many years I never saw the town rebuilt.

23 posted on 04/30/2007 11:13:41 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded
Something tells me that insurance on gasoline trucks doesn't cover the replacement of a bridge. Maybe it should since they can be very destructive.

The damage done by this particular truck doesn't seem astonishingly high, compared with what such trucks might do in other circumstances. I don't know how much a section of bridge costs, but the truck knocked out two or three sections of fairly ordinary elevated highway. I would think that a truck that exploded near a suburban shopping mall gas station would do a lot more damage, and that trucking companies would have to be covered for that.

30 posted on 04/30/2007 7:16:05 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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