So this morning I'm trying to catch the early train to work and sure enough there's a slowdown again. Only this time I can see why for quite a distance, as the smoke is very black and very plentiful. A truck was on fire. A commercial pickup truck, with some sort of cab in the back. And I'm not talking about an "engine caught on fire" sort of fire, I'm talking about a front to back engulfed in flames movie special effect sort of fire. This thing was going up in a big way. You don't see that every day.
The most annoying part is that it was on the other side of the highway, so all the traffic on my side was pointless gawking at it. Guy in front of me even had his cameraphone stuck out the window while trying to drive.