Park still cleaning Yellowstone's biggest road fuel spill in nearly 20 years

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5. Well...

They get the environmental impacts but they are not all that well informed about the transportation part. I used to drive on of those very type rigs around five counties of SoCal for about 18 months, hated it, ruined my shoulders.

The truck is a "truck and trailer" which means there is an 4000gal tank on the power unit, a long framed truck-same undercarriage as a dump truck, pretty stable unit. The trailer is attached by a draw-bar of about 15ft. The trailer is an 4800gal unit, I can tell by its length. They are squirrely on wet pavement, I have ended up in a "Z" formation once on the 405 trying to stop for an accident... the front axle of the trailer can do a 360 round.

So the area is right above LeHardy's Rapids which is where the ONE CURVE in the road is. And it was wet but it still takes some doing to roll one of those things. I've had them off pavement on construction sites on hills and all manner of two lane and I would have to really make an effort to roll one of those. And that isn't a bad stretch of road so... smh.