Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Fremantle Highway Decks Collapse | WGOW Shipping on FreightWavesTV | Why So Many Fires?" video.

  1. ICE fires abound too. (Ford cruise control kickoff Kapton diaphragm, Ford ignition switches, GM ignition switches etc). Leaving harnesses CONSTANTLY HOT is easy on designers but not too bright from a safety POV. Never forget the craven desperate greed behind the used vehicle industry outside the US. Expecting professionalism from bottom feeder shipping outfits is absurd. It must be enforced in a manner where PEOPLE not businesses are punished. Pull the batteries. Salvage yards do. It is not rocket surgery. ICE, hydbrid, BEV, whatever. Yank them and store in containers such that the containers can be jettisoned over the side. Simple racks and latches can be remote controlled turning containers packed with batteries into "rectangular depth charges". This is not exotic, it's basic fab. A ship loaded with auction junkers is begging for fire UNLESS the batteries are removed which they can be. Vehicles can be loaded by a warehouse tug fitted with common wheel lifts as used on wreckers or wheel lift forklift attachments. The second requires nothing but COTS components. The reason I mention this is it's not going to happen because shippers don't care (or they'd already be doing it).
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