[John Jamieson]

Watchout for cement trucks on Bridges

I was thinking about fuel trucks and attacks on the CA bridges, etc. It seems to me the best vehicle for a terrorist truck attack would be one of the those large cement mixers. You put the stuff in the barrel, mix it up. drive wherever you want. No one is looking for cement trucks. Just set it off when you get to the target. It would hold about as much as 50, 55 gallon drums and no tedious hand mixing.

[Husker24]

The point is moot now anyway, its not going to happen. If the terrorists were going to blow any bridges up their cover has been blown. Also its simply too hard to blow up a bridge, you cant do it with a truck bomb, the terrorists would have to preposition explosives on certain parts of the bridge. There are people guarding these bridges. If this is a credibal threat it is most likely being used to divert resources away from the real targets if there are any.

[copycat]

Watchout for cement trucks on Bridges

The "barrel" on a cement truck would do a pretty good job containing a sizeable portion of any blast within it. After all, it holds tons of concrete in

[tacticalogic]

A concrete truck on a long bridge during rush hour would be seriously out of place. Too much change it could get caught up in traffic and have the load set up in the truck, so they wouldn't have sent it in the first place. I don't know if they would be able to stop it, but I think someone would realize that it wasn't supposed to be there.