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[Sirus]

Things I saw today:

A tanker truck hauling - get this - molten sulphur. Why is a truck hauling molten sulphur around, and why isn't it several miles away from me? That's possibly the second-nastiest thing I've seen, freightwise.

A flock of what appear to be wild turkeys. I say wild because there doesn't appear to be any sort of farm or home nearby where they might have come from, but we aren't exactly in the middle of the woods. But there they are, a bunch of turkeys walking around like they own the place.

[Darvi]

That begs the question of what the nastiest thing you've seen was.

[Arx]

A tanker truck hauling - get this - molten sulphur. Why is a truck hauling molten sulphur around, and why isn't it several miles away from me? That's possibly the second-nastiest thing I've seen, freightwise.

This begs the question...

E: ninja'd almost exactly

[Sirus]

That would probably be the dry van with heavy-duty locks on the doors and "RADIOACTIVE" hazard placards plastered all over it. Better believe I gave that one a decent amount of space.

[10ebbor10]

Probably a transport of medical isotopes. Quite a bit nastier than nuclear waste, as they're far more radioactive and short lived.

[Arx]

That would probably be the dry van with heavy-duty locks on the doors and "RADIOACTIVE" hazard placards plastered all over it. Better believe I gave that one a decent amount of space.

Niiiiiiice.

Although it's possible it didn't have anything radioactive in it right at that moment. I have seen people in overalls putting chemicals from a high school lab storage room into barrels marked "Hazardous Material", with biohazard signs  and all.

[Sirus]

That would probably be the dry van with heavy-duty locks on the doors and "RADIOACTIVE" hazard placards plastered all over it. Better believe I gave that one a decent amount of space.

Niiiiiiice.

Although it's possible it didn't have anything radioactive in it right at that moment. I have seen people in overalls putting chemicals from a high school lab storage room into barrels marked "Hazardous Material", with biohazard signs  and all.

Nope. Legally, a truck containing hazardous materials needs to display warning placards showing what it is. Likewise, a truck that contains no hazardous materials CAN NOT display placards. You can get hit with very hefty fines for having it the wrong way.

[SealyStar]

Things I saw today:

A tanker truck hauling - get this - molten sulphur. Why is a truck hauling molten sulphur around, and why isn't it several miles away from me? That's possibly the second-nastiest thing I've seen, freightwise.

A flock of what appear to be wild turkeys. I say wild because there doesn't appear to be any sort of farm or home nearby where they might have come from, but we aren't exactly in the middle of the woods. But there they are, a bunch of turkeys walking around like they own the place.

I don't know where you are, but where I live wild turkeys are pretty common.

Ditto on the sulfur though.

[Steelmagic]

That would probably be the dry van with heavy-duty locks on the doors and "RADIOACTIVE" hazard placards plastered all over it. Better believe I gave that one a decent amount of space.

But you could've become a superhero! Trust me, I've read manuals on this stuff like "Spiderman" and "The Incredible Hulk."

[Pnx]

The sulfur truck was probably transporting it probably to create sulfuric acid, which has a number of industrial uses.

Sulfur apparently mostly comes from the refinement of natural gas or petrolium, and 85% of the world's supply gets converted to sulfuric acid (I did not know these things before I looked them up).

I don't actually think it's actually very dangerous in it's pure form. Though it smells awful.

[scrdest]

That would probably be the dry van with heavy-duty locks on the doors and "RADIOACTIVE" hazard placards plastered all over it. Better believe I gave that one a decent amount of space.

Niiiiiiice.

Although it's possible it didn't have anything radioactive in it right at that moment. I have seen people in overalls putting chemicals from a high school lab storage room into barrels marked "Hazardous Material", with biohazard signs  and all.

It very well might have been hazardous. Sulfric, Nitric and Hydrochloric acid, Sodium Hydroxide, Acetone and various oil derivatives were all in my high school lab.

[Bauglir]

The sulfur truck was probably transporting it probably to create sulfuric acid, which has a number of industrial uses.

Sulfur apparently mostly comes from the refinement of natural gas or petrolium, and 85% of the world's supply gets converted to sulfuric acid (I did not know these things before I looked them up).

I don't actually think it's actually very dangerous in it's pure form. Though it smells awful.

But why ship it molten? That involves some fairly significant heating costs, if nothing else.

EDIT: And chemically dangerous or no, molten sulfur would give some pretty serious burns on account of being a bit warmer than boiling water and there being an entire tanker full of the stuff.

[10ebbor10]

Because it's produced molten*, and used molten**. It's easier to get a sufficiently isolated truck, and transport it that way, than having to cool it down first, scrape it out of whatever you stored it in, dump it in the truck, and then have to reheat it at the target facility.

*Though that procedure is being phased out.
**Well, most of the time it's burned, so it has to

[Lagslayer]

A lot of servers seem to be having problems today. Some have graphical glitches, others have display problems. I was under the impression that these were normally server-specific problems, but that it's happening to so many at once suggests to me that my shitty internet service is somehow fucking it up.

[Descan]

So it's less "WE NEED TO KEEP THIS MOLTEN" and it's more "Eh, just stuff it in the (adequately shielded/safe) truck as-is, they can heat it up a little at the facility."