ALERT! FBI looking for truck that passed through Colorado!

9 News Denver ^ | 2-14-03 | Chris Vanderveen

[RandallFlagg]

DENVER - Concern among members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorist Task Force has surfaced in Colorado. A semi-truck driving through the state on Thursday afternoon apparently triggered a nationwide alert going out to law enforcement agencies across the state Friday night.

Only a few specifics of the alert were released. Apparently, it stems from what happened at a Sinclair gas station in Byers around 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Byers is about 40 miles east of Denver on I-70.

Two men described as Middle Eastern in an 18-wheeler with a white tractor truck apparently tried to put unleaded gasoline into the truck. An attendant advised them it would not work and told them they needed to use diesel.

The men fueled up with the correct gas, paid in cash and left on Highway 36, which would connect them to I-80 in northeastern Colorado.

The truck has a Quebec, Canada, license plate number RS7-116. The name on the truck is Real Transport.

Authorities ran a check on the license plate and said it was clear, but it does not have a current registration.

The FBI sent out the alert shortly before 5 p.m. Friday. It advises law enforcement officers that if the semi is contacted to identify the occupants and determine if there is a current registration available.

If the FBI has any other reason to be worried about the semi, it's not saying.

There’s no confirmation that this is tied into any possible terrorism, but with the country on high alert, no one wants to take any chances.

[leadpenny]

Stop the Axis of Weasels!

. . . the plume of boric acid . . .

Wouldn't that be, "Stop the axles and diesel?"

[Boot Hill]

"amorphous boron is used in pyrotechnic flares (distinctive green colour), and rockets (as an igniter)."

LOL, can you imagine: "Achmed, quick go steal that truck of boric acid and then hurry and convert it into amorphous boron so we can color our flares green." ROTFLMAO!

Please tell me, you weren't being series, were you?

--Boot Hill

[Movemout]

Like I said in my previous post, Boric Acid is used primarily to create other boron compounds. If I were doing mischief I wouldn't bother with it. But your assertion that it has no practical uses is bald on the surface. These idiots can't figure out that they shouldn't pump unleaded into a diesel engine. However, it is possible that they are just drivers and wouldn't know squat about boric acid anyway. There is also no evidence that boric acid is the payload in the trailer. I was merely pointing out that there are boron compounds that can be easily produced that are dangerous at some level. Don't be offended. These nincompoops are likely to be intercepted no matter what they have in the trailer.

G'night. I'm signing off.

[putupon]

FBI looking for truck that passed through Colorado!

Call Hans Blix! He is confident that his inspectors can find Saddam's mobile labs and weapons, this truck should be a piece of cake for the Kraut to locate, what with the description and no interference from "handlers" and what not.

[sit-rep]

I am truly shocked that they said "Middle Eastern Men" in the article. Lately, seems like the sensitivity of racial profiling has resumed...

SR

[Boot Hill]

"I was just responding to Boot Hill's comments that nobody had commented on any use for boric acid that might be dangerous."

Remember, I said that nobody had presented a practical use for it by terrorists, not that it could never be made dangerous. Hell, I can make a bowl of sugar dangerous, it's just not very practical. And if it's not practical, why would you spend time or energy worrying over it?

--Boot Hill

[Boot Hill]

" But your assertion that it has no practical uses is bald on the surface."

Again, I didn't say it had no practical uses, I said there was no "practical use for it by terrorists" And you've failed to offer even a single practical use for it by terrorists.

--Boot Hill

[Podkayne]

Well Interstate 29 starts in Winnipeg, goes south through the Dakotas and Along the eastern edge of Nebraska to Kansas City where it stops and intersects with Interstate 70 and Interstate 35. So, I must assume that Anthrax spewing, Marburg belching caravans of death are passing within a stones throw of my front door.

Hmmm, It's time to move west - it's only 15 miles to the Leavenworth Army Officers school. You'd think they knew how to keep security high!

[maestro]

Your#52)....................Sure!

Seems as if the truck has been in the USA for at least a year.

Good point. "Sleepers?"

Maybe, they were a 'new'(fresh) team of drivers from another cell?

"Sleepers"......?.........Maybe, .......the 'first' team needed to go back to 'sleeping'?

(Isn't 'Rocky Flats' near Denver?)

(Dirty-bomb materials?)

[RandallFlagg]

They've closed shop and are cleaning it up.

[craig_eddy]

bump for later reading

[putupon]

Hmmm, It's time to move west - it's only 15 miles to the Leavenworth Army Officers school

Don't go there! My brother in law went to that school 99/00, finished, took an exec officer position @ another base, was diagnosed ith a viral heart infection, and died about three months after leaving Leavenworth. TRUE STORY

[AndyJackson]

we can assume that they didn't go to a truckers school

How much time do they spend at truckers school teaching you not to put gasoline in a diesel. Seems like sort of a guy thing you know. You just grow up knowing this kind of stuff.

[LRS]

They be messing with the MAN now!

[Las Vegas Dave]

Am I missing something?

Are you saying that because of an expired license tag, that the UNKNOWN truck (with radio active material) that passed through the Detroit border last year, is the same truck spotted in Colorado this month?

Please explain, so that I understand the connection.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

My leedle diesel auto with a fourteen-ish gallon fuel tank goes about seven hundred miles between fill-ups. Simply scaling indicates that an OTR tractor should do about a thousand miles on a tankfull

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A lot of 18 wheelers can drive from the East Coast to the West Coast on one full tank of gas. It is not impossible for a truck to go from Quebec to Colorado without fueling (I think its a 1500 mi or 1600 mi drive from Montreal to Colorado)

[scab4faa]

The other thing that nobody has mentioned is how many truck drivers carry enough cash around on them to fill up their trucks? Don't most use credit cards or something? Sounds to me they were trying not to leave a trail.

[usmcobra]

I'll see that bump and raise it another bump so I can check this thread later.

[woofer]

My leedle diesel auto with a fourteen-ish gallon fuel tank goes about seven hundred miles between fill-ups.

If you coupled that mileage with a 50/50 mix of Wemco-C Transformer Insulation Oil, you'd only be shelling out for 2 of every 3 fill-ups.

My best times on the job have been in utility T&D yards, fightin' the truck drivers for the excess oil drums not needed for topping off after dressing out and applying 24 hour vacuum. As the manufacturer's rep, I usually won. Always tried to keep 300 gals. on hand at the shop to supplement the fuel for the pick-ups.

[GWB00]

According to Senator "Sheets" Bryd, it is called, DUCK Tape