Its almost like if you can read english, have been correctly trained or even have basic common sense you dont turn into a mass murderer like the ####### who killed a bunch of folks in colorado or something..... Least the driver is alright. Wonder if it was speed, inexperince or mechanical failure.....regardless that #### there is nightmare fuel. I haul 80k all the time and am always scared ill goof and go a gear or two to high or miss a grade sign. Never have and hopefully never will but...ugh. nightmare fuel
I always think about it as well. Seems alot of the grades out west here, be lucky to even make it to the ramp without turning it over. Usually lots of curves before the runaway... I remember the first time I drove a 13 speed I was coming down into butte montana on i-15 down that big hill and was trying to downshift to the next lower split gear. Like 7 low to 6 high and missed the shift got stuck in neutral for a couple seconds... learned right then and there how to downshift with both feet. Left foot brake right foot rev matching the rpms... nowadays I can shift up and down a hill no problem.. nice strong engine brakes on these newer cummins make it quite easy to hold back even fully grossed out
Yup my first truck when i started had a maxxforce.... that brake was more suggestion then fact and i deffo smoked my brakes a bit coming down the grapevine the first time when i did what my trainer told me to do. Moron lost his #### for coming down the grapevine in 6th because 7th wouldnt hold it and reached over to pop it into 9th and told me to ride the brake.....then screamed in my face i did it wrong. Only time i was grateful for inwards facing cams. Always been leery of hills since. And i agree on the cummins. The one in my new ISX is at least as good maybe a little better even then on my old kittys. Though i always get a little twitchy when im coming down a steep hill with my jake doing most/all of the work. So so SO many close calls with morons nearly rear ending my heavy slow ### flipping me off screaming at me on the CB or even throwing #### at my rig. I hate hills even if i handle them fine. Most of them cant understand im 80k so im coming doen say....64 in 5th where my jake can hold with a 1-2 second pulse occasionally.
That driver was going way too fast around those curves....that runaway ramp came just it time before he either started a BBQ or put the truck on it's side. He waited to late to choose a safe speed.
