There's no way they go to this kind of trouble to save a truck driver. Sounds like propaganda to me.
Truck drivers now know that if they haul along that road, they will at the very least have their trucks destroyed. The drivers will be telling everyone they know what happened to them.
The results are fewer trucks on the road, plus (despite this whining story) we look like the good guys.
Fewer drivers will be willing to take the chance that we will always be so patient.