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  • Runaway Truck! Watch This Trucker With Melted Brakes Get An Escort To The Runaway Truck Ramp!

    (By Greg Rourke) – Truck driving is serious business.  Weather, road conditions, other drivers and equipment failures can all conspire to ruin your day. Here we have an example of one day this driver would rather forget. The video opens with an 18 wheeler trailing heavy smoke from it’s brakes.  They can get hot enough for […]

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    hair raising.
    I was a boy in the 70s.. tiny rigs and the same weights as today. Leaf springs changing which wheel has more pressure.
    those shitty exploding tires gaining air pressure as the heat rises..

    My dad would have hit the grooved ditch, let the right side rip apart.
    He would not do that with me in it, he then taught me about the sandbagged runaway ramps.
    I still remember our first chat about that...and why one of his trucker friends had one eye.
    He was very old back in the 1980s, I could only imagine where he began his career.
    Trucks used to have backwards brakes. Instead of air out to lock, they needed air in to work at all.

    Another option is just flipping, try jacknife...desolate road only...but you might end up with one eye.
    Last edited by Barry Donovan; July 20, 2017, 03:00 PM.
    Previously boxer3main
    the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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      Dad used to have a water tank on his logging truck.. Top of the hill, he'd get out, start the water dripping and head downhill..
      On the bottom, he'd stop and close the valve and head to the mill on the highway..
      Only one of the truck axles had water..

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