Nuclear Truckers - Article from Mother Jones magazine
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ChanceMaster, don't get your hemp undies all in a bunch over this. Consider the source. This magazine has been promoting dropping out, going organic and building geodezic domes for years. Ooops, um, ah, I got the wrong Mother. I was thinking Mother Earth News (MoEar). You linked the udder Mother, Mother Jones (MoJo). My mistake! But consider the source anyway, Mother Jones at one time had as an editor in chief Micheal Moore.
Is that it?" My wife leans forward in the passenger seat of our sensible hatchback and points ahead to an 18-wheeler that's hauling *** toward us on a low-country stretch of South Carolina's Highway 125.
Sensible hatchback? I would have expected "gas sipping, low emissions Prius" from this rag.
At first the mysterious big rig resembles a commercial gas tanker, but the cab is pristine-looking and there's a simple blue-on-white license plate: US GOVERNMENT. It blows by too quickly to determine whether it's part of the little-known US fleet tasked with transporting some of the most sensitive cargo in existence.
Everyone knows this is just a decoy rig. The real nuclear stuff is being transported in ubiquitous black and orange tractor/trailers.
Looks like Mother Jones is trying to compete with the Onion.
Is that it?" My wife leans forward in the passenger seat of our sensible hatchback and points ahead to an 18-wheeler that's hauling *** toward us on a low-country stretch of South Carolina's Highway 125.
Sensible hatchback? I would have expected "gas sipping, low emissions Prius" from this rag.
At first the mysterious big rig resembles a commercial gas tanker, but the cab is pristine-looking and there's a simple blue-on-white license plate: US GOVERNMENT. It blows by too quickly to determine whether it's part of the little-known US fleet tasked with transporting some of the most sensitive cargo in existence.
Everyone knows this is just a decoy rig. The real nuclear stuff is being transported in ubiquitous black and orange tractor/trailers.
Looks like Mother Jones is trying to compete with the Onion.
ChanceMaster
Expert Expediter
@ moot...my underwear are lead, to protect my a** from radiation. I'm not a hippie, just thought the article was interesting. I read a lot, including cereal boxes.
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Of all of the hazmat we carry I prefer the radmat loads. They are serious about the packaging for that stuff.
moose
Veteran Expediter
The 2 times i'v seen those rigs,
they where escorted by several LEO units AND an air patrol.
Nuke waste is normally transported by outside contractors.
those are the lowboy dubble decked trailers carrying that large barrel .
that barrel is filed mainly with 'sand', and in-case of a rollover there is no risk of spill what so ever.
pay is really well, 50% D/H, about 90,000 mil. a year. dedicated runs, O/O - DoD tractor Teams only.
& that's what i have to say about that.
they where escorted by several LEO units AND an air patrol.
Nuke waste is normally transported by outside contractors.
those are the lowboy dubble decked trailers carrying that large barrel .
that barrel is filed mainly with 'sand', and in-case of a rollover there is no risk of spill what so ever.
pay is really well, 50% D/H, about 90,000 mil. a year. dedicated runs, O/O - DoD tractor Teams only.
& that's what i have to say about that.