Runaway Truck

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  1. rickybobby

    rickybobby Road Train Member

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    I'm surprised this guy is alive.
     
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    WOW
     
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    Two thoughts;
    1) - Lucky SOB, those rolls of paper are approx. 40"wide and 12-1800 lbs apiece.
    One would kill you.
    2) - Wilkes-Barre, Pa. has a several mile hill that has 3 runaway truck ramps
    cut into sides, with piles of gravel across, and 2 feet deep.
    Would have saved the truck on this example.
    saw many places, (flying by,) that this could have been deployed successfully.
     
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    Great video.

    Thanks for posting.

    Make a great training video............of what NOT to do.
     
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    These ramps do save lives. The guy had a run of his life.
     
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    Dude shooting video should have speeded up to get in front and use his truck to stop the runaway.I seen that in a movie just waiting for the day I get to do it.Ill be famous
     
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    lol I don't think the Mexican cop car would have stopped the semi. But ya. I have had the same thought before!
     
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    O I thought it was a truck driver shooting video I heard the sirens never thought it was the cop recording it.guess didn't pay close attention
     
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    Like this?
     
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    Back in the early 70's
    Mount Airy Lodge in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania
    had 10-12 Mack Triaxle dumps.
    They were building several housing development projects.
    Quarry for stone was at bottom of hill, destination Development at top.
    On the empty run back down, truck in back lost his brakes
    and CB Radios saved the day - he radioed guy ahead of him and he
    slowed down enough to contact, and eased both down 2 miles to bottom.
    Coulda killed them both if they got squirrley and flipped, but only
    damage was some fiberglass repair, and smoked brakes on both.
    I worked in their machine shop in 1971, and remember the brakes
    actually caught fire; smoked for the rest of the day. WOW.

    And no, a car would be flattened in a second.
     
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