jumping out of the moving truck?

Oh my... I've never heard such dumb [crap] in my life. The school's informing the students this? Where are the SR drivers who can inform the greenhorns on what to do in a ( CASE to CASE ) situation.

WOW....

All the best, Safe Landings and say goodbye to some trucks....
Matthew

 

About 10 years ago on US 41 north of Chicago a driver had a super coil (about 40000k) on a flat. He hits the brakes hard to stop for the red light. He gets the truck stopped but either hears the coil break loose or sees it in his mirror. He decides it best to jump out of the truck. Guess where the coil ends up? It rolls all the way down the trailer, up the back of the left side of the cab and right on top of the driver. Killed him instantly. I glad we don't haul those #### things anymore. Most of them go on trains now. Stay in your truck.

 

I've heard that a driver from ( Great American Lines ) an explicit FLATBED only company had an accedent that ROLLED the trailer with a coil.

The COIL was chained so well, that it actually stayed chained to the trailer.

Im not sure how true that story was seeing how I heard it on the Comic channel by another DD.....

Never know I guess, It may have been true...

In my Exp, I hate hauling the SOB's...

All the best,
Matt

GETTA 50KLB Coil moving at 2MPH and a TRAILER HEADACHE rack becomes a RAMP or a BUMP for the COIL.

FYI to the General Public: Coils can sometimes weight in excess of 50K plus easy. Thats the weight of the TRUCK/Trailer and a 2 CARS.......

 

thats the problem with super coils. you can only put 6 chains on one because of the stake pockets being two feet apart. Six chain should have been enuf though. I don't know if had he had that many, alot of guys only used four.

 

Can you downshift downhill?

Theoretically.. Yes. Practically.. No.
The powerband/speed/rpms need to match up so precisely to do any good of slowing you down (without blowing the engine) that it becomes extremely difficult to get it in gear. It's not a simple matter of rev-shift anymore. You have to pop it out of gear, rev, shift in... All before the truck gains another 5mph. With 40k on the trailer, and the 32k your truck already weighs it can increase 5mph in less than a second on some grades.

Now there is a method that works pretty well, but I am not going to try and explain that here because someone will read it, then try it, mess up, and die! I practiced this on a simulator before trying it with a nearly empty on the road at night, with nobody around me... I will NEVER try it with a heavy loaded trailer. I refuse to kill others to try something new, it's not worth it!

So if anybody knows someone who has an abbandoned interstate-style mountain test-track... I'd love 10 min on it

Stick with the method they teach you, it's PROVEN. Get the proper gear BEFORE starting down, hit the jakes and glide down in a blaze of noise.