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Jun 3, 2015

DANGEROUS LOADS * USA: What do I do about trucks with unsecured loads?

* Washington - All vehicles loaded with dirt, sand, or gravel must have a secured cover


-- A reader asks if there’s anything that can be done about trucks driving around with unsafe loads: “Every year we pay hundreds of dollars to replace broken windshields because of trucks hauling rocks with uncovered loads. Rocks either cascade off the loads or are driven like golf balls through our windshields. Yet when we have reported seeing these trucks with uncovered loads well over the back rim of the truck we feel we are dismissed by the police dispatch. We never see them pulled over yet we continuously see them hauling on Interstate 90 east of North Bend" ... The State Patrol offers various ways we can report them. This answer came from the Sgt. J.M. Ross, supervisor of the TACT (Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks) project: "All loads and any required covering must be secured. All vehicles loaded with dirt, sand, or gravel which do not maintain at least six inches of freeboard must have a secured cover... Any vehicle with deposits of mud, rock, or other debris on the vehicle’s body, fenders, frame, undercarriage, wheels, or tires shall be cleaned of such material before the operation of the vehicle on a paved public highway. A broom and shovel should be carried in the truck to accomplish this cleaning... If the load is a type of material that will be blown from the vehicle while the vehicle is in motion, then that type of load shall be covered to prevent this from occurring. The six inches of freeboard shall be maintained, if the load is not covered, after the load has had an opportunity to settle" ... One probably feels helpless after repeatedly falling victim to errant rocks from unsecured loads, but it seems the best we can do is report dangerous loads before something happens — or after... Spilling or failing to secure your load can lead to a penalty... 
(seattlepi.com file photo - Members of the Cascade Bicycle Club make their way from Fort Dent in Tukwila to Alki. A dump truck kicks up dust and noise as it rushes by the riders along West Marginal Way)  --  Seattle, Washington, USA - Seattle PI, by Lynsi Burton - June 1, 2015

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Jul 16, 2008

DANGEROUS LOAD * USA - Plutonium waste prepared for long haul

Federal officials hope to begin shipping plutonium-contaminated waste from Oak Ridge to New Mexico later this year

Oak Ridge,TEN,USA -The Oak Ridger, by John Huotari -Jul 14, 2008: -- ... On Monday morning, they displayed two of the custom tractor-trailer rigs that will carry the waste in lead-lined and foam-filled stainless steel containers from the Tranuranic Waste Processing Center west of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, outside Carlsbad, N.M.... Bill McMillan, DOE's federal project director for transuranic waste in Oak Ridge, said shipments of about 1,500 cubic meters of waste that can be handled by workers in protective clothing could start in September. Another 600 cubic meters of waste that has to be handled remotely, using robotic arms, could begin the long trek to WIPP by year's end... The energy department expects to make roughly 60 to 120 annual truck shipments through 2013 from the Tranuranic Waste Processing Center to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant... During the trip, the waste will be stored in 55-gallon drums inside the special -- and expensive -- shipping containers... In New Mexico, the material will be stored in salt caverns roughly half a mile, or 2,150 feet, below ground... William B. Mackie, institutional programs manager at the U.S. Department of Energy's Carlsbad Field Office said, some of the materials have a radioactive half-life of up to 10,000 years, and officials said transuranic waste cannot be disposed of in Tennessee... (Photo by Lynn Freeny - David Tindell of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency demonstrates just a part of the detailed Level VI safety inspection that takes place prior to transuranic waste leaving Oak Ridge facilities on its way for permanent disposal in New Mexico. The waste includes byproducts of Manhattan Project activities as well as ongoing operations at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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