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Quote: Originally posted by aga  | I just saw a van with the attached symbol on it in the nearest village.
They were setting up racks and racks of 2' x 3" metal tubes with wires coming out of them. |
1.3G... My usual load placard.
More likely those tubes were HDPE or fiberglass, metal is out of fashion for anything but very heavy duty guns, which must be dug into the ground or
placed in sand piles/boxes/barrels.
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http://business.financialpost.com/2014/08/28/crude-stench-st...
i think it may be that the oil is containing lachrymators
but they probably ship the most nasties on rail, yeah..
however i recall something about they had some huge specially built trucks for shipping nuclear materials and smaller nuclear warheads for whatever
purpose around in the US
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aga
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Not in Spain !
Deffo metal tubes welded into some square section frame.
Safety was of utmost importance, which is why they put tinfoil over the tubes once rammed, to prevent their own cigarette ash falling in i suppose.
The police Cordon (some tape) was at least a metre from the 30 or so Katyushka batteries they had rigged up.
I was about 4 miles away when they lit the blue touchpaper.
Very Very loud indeed.
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Saw this on a tanker on the highway recently:
Google says this is the symbol for hydrochloric acid. I didn't see any other labeling on the tanker, but then I didn't get the chance to look
closely.
I also saw this one for gasoline. Again I saw no other label but could not look closely.
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saw one on I5 last night on my way to work again. near artois, just had the placard 2929. didn't see any thing else, then again I was doing 75 mph
in the dark, in a tiny car driving beside the beast of a semi. not much time to look about 
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/hazmat/erg/sl/2907|29...
this says it was some kind of poisonous/toxic flammable liquid though
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Just saw an FMC tanker with this placard:
The truck was labeled hydrogen peroxide.
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Do a handbrake turn immediately, screeching the tyres.
Chase the truck, and hijack it.
Sample the H2O2, and if it's 30%+, tazer the driver, then take the truck home.
If it's 3%, throw your arms in the air a lot, spit on the ground, then give the driver the truck keys back before tutting, and muttering a lot on the
way back to your car.
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My bet is that it was 50%. It was heading right for the place I used to work. We used it in a UV/oxidation process for wastewater treatment. 
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aga
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Step on it !
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I always see trucks full of large bags of Ammonium nitrate on the main highways near where I live.
I want to follow one one day considering how hard it is to get this chemical in Australia, maybe the driver would let me buy a sample on the sly
Have also seen smaller trucks with 60% Hydrogen peroxide and 98% Sulphuric acid containers on the back.
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a good friend of mine drives trucks for the main munitions supplier in Australia which is about 40km from my place. he carts some nasty things at
times. the factory produces 70% HNO3 onsite which he often carts in big tankers for 100s of km.
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Today I saw a truck and trailer going down the highway with two placards. One indicated flammable. The other just said "DANGEROUS." I thought this
was rather ambiguous ie, "DANGEROUS" could indicate so many cargoes, eg, angry African honey bees, angry pit bulls, black widows, rattlesnakes, etc.
I suppose the placard is still useful. The truck was labeled petroleum wastes for recycle.
[Edited on 16-4-2015 by Magpie]
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Driving I-75 in Florida this weekend I passed a tanker truck with an Oxidizer-2426 placard. A quick search reveals it is "Ammonium nitrate, liquid
(hot concentrated solution)". Under synonyms on this site, it suggests this is between 45% and 93% concentration. Fun!
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This truck carrying liquid aluminum just crashed on the autobahn
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3h6r2e/this_truck_car...
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Wow! Dramatic.
I am surprised that liquid Al was allowed to be transported by road.
On the grand scale of things however, there are many things that could be worse: provided no one was injured in the original crash. A bit of liquid Al
is going to solidify reasonably quickly, cool quickly also and be able to be picked up pretty much intact without a huge amount of hazard. I am just
glad I wasn't the car travelling behind it. A slosh of 800° metal would not be much fun if it got on your car.
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I was in a Rockies town for awhile that interesting rail cars would go through. Hydrogen Halides, Sulfuric Acid, and something else l can't recall. I
know it was cool though, because I remember the experience like Christmas, seeing a virtually unobtainable chemical in such huge amounts. Maybe I'll
look through vacation photos to see what it was or something lol.
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stopped for a bite to eat and drove past this! totally cool
walked over and snapped a pic really quick before grabbing dinner. couldn't help it, just glad no one threw a fit.
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That's really cool A medical site?
I've seen Hydrazine transported, I think to Ashland chemical. It was in a 'tanker': about 15 very long, thin tubes running the length of the truck in
a hexagonal pattern. Something like one might imagine how fuel rods, hang, but on its side. I also saw some liquid ammonia, though that's rather
common. 'Bonded Chemical' trucks drive around all the time, but they're all box trucks, so I can't see inside
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this was at a holliday inn I think... trucker sleeping. My brother said he has seen things like this a fair amount as there is a power plant near
by. He spends a good deal of time in that area during crab season. I found it fascinating.
after a bit of reading, wish the orange label above left of the placard was legible... better idea of what it was for sure. big enough I seriously
doubt it was medical. the container was big and strapped to a flat bed 18 wheeler taking up about 2/3 of the trailer length.
it was just that it was already dark out and I didn't want any one to think I was up to no good there. hard to explain you are just a science geek
while snapping pics of radioactive trucks in the dark lol. the dinner we had across the street was great too! win win.
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Haha, yeah, that'd be tough to explain. Indeed, win win! Too bad you didn't bring the gieger counter! (lol, spell-check wanted me to change that to
ginger counter Gingers are cute, but I'm fairly certain I can count them
myself...)
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cool tool for placards
Hi,
I'm a long time lurker but thought I'd log in to tell you about a fairly cool app called HazRef2008. It has most, if not all, of the DOT placards in
it with info about response if there is a spill.
I have the paid one but there is also a free one as well.
I'm a retired first responder and when my wife is driving I like to look up all the placards we see on the road.. interesting stuff out there...
Love the board, wil probably lurk some more now.
D
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2762 : Organochlorine pesticides liquid, flammable, toxic, flash point less than 23 degrees C
A new one for me, seen Friday morning. But I do live around a LOT of agriculture, so...
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I recently saw a string of railroad tankers sitting on a rail spur. Many had the following placard (anhydrous ammonia) without the little tank:
It is fertilizing season, after all.
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Huh. I know it's silly, but we should make a list, or use an online map program to keep track of the more interesting ones and where they're seen.
Perhaps like that one map website someone has in their sig. for writing where home chemists are.
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I saw a new placard on the highway yesterday on a ss tanker:
This is for hypochlorite solutions.
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