This Is Why Runaway Truck Ramps Could Save Your Life
If you ever have the misfortune to experience disastrous brake failure on a fast downhill stretch of road, you better pray that one of these ingenious run-off zones has been installed!
Does anyone know if we have these in Australia cos I’ve never seen one
My dad is a professional CDL certified truck driver. He has had to use one of these once in Navada, when he was working for Old Dominion.
@2:45 “Saftey PULLOUT”
Fun fact: when the railroad was first built across the Rockies in Canada, they used runaways for the trains so they could get down the hills. They’d go down a little bit, run up an escape, go down a little more, run up another escape, and so on.
Some of these trucks carry 35,000 lb loads. Nothing but engine brake on a 16 degree decline?
We have this type of truck ramp in Slovenia:
99.9% of trucks going down one these steep hills will have no issue but put 200 trucks a day down them & find out how many of those 0.1% develope into a proper runaway and these ramps soon get some use. I’ve seen a couple of trucks with smoking brakes at the bottom of Cunningham’s gap in qld, Australia & two trucks stuck in the ramp awaiting rescue. But at least they were safe.
Is this something new in the US? In Europe you can find those ramps everywhere.
Good idea. I only know of one truck ramp in the UK, in Edenfield, and that’s a private one for a quarry.
So, like, when their brakes fade, why can’t they engine brake?
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Does anyone know if we have these in Australia cos I’ve never seen one
My dad is a professional CDL certified truck driver. He has had to use one of these once in Navada, when he was working for Old Dominion.
@2:45 “Saftey PULLOUT”
Fun fact: when the railroad was first built across the Rockies in Canada, they used runaways for the trains so they could get down the hills. They’d go down a little bit, run up an escape, go down a little more, run up another escape, and so on.
Some of these trucks carry 35,000 lb loads. Nothing but engine brake on a 16 degree decline?
We have this type of truck ramp in Slovenia:
99.9% of trucks going down one these steep hills will have no issue but put 200 trucks a day down them & find out how many of those 0.1% develope into a proper runaway and these ramps soon get some use. I’ve seen a couple of trucks with smoking brakes at the bottom of Cunningham’s gap in qld, Australia & two trucks stuck in the ramp awaiting rescue. But at least they were safe.
Is this something new in the US? In Europe you can find those ramps everywhere.
Good idea. I only know of one truck ramp in the UK, in Edenfield, and that’s a private one for a quarry.
So, like, when their brakes fade, why can’t they engine brake?