Ever set your parking brakes.....

Yep parked on ice, if I set the brakes the truck started sliding bobtail. If i had my foot on the brake pedal it didn't move. Had someone switch places with me and threw chains behind the tires to keep it from sliding at the yard.

 

I had an old Freightliner start creeping backward downhill with the tractor brakes set. It was 80000 on a steep drive. Had to set the trailer too, which I'm in the habit of not doing so brakes won't freeze on trailer in winter.

The Peterbilts don't roll back on that hill. Reason is, Peterbilt has 4 parking brakes on the drives, but cheap Freightliners only have 2.

 

Freightliners can be had with 4 parking brakes too

 

And have seen many a lower specd Pete with only two

 

Top of Vail Pass, winter of 2002, stopped to take a pee break, set my tractor brakes, not my trailer brakes. Tires cooled, melt through the snow, hit the ice, and away she went. Slid 60ft down the truck parking until the steers hit an ice ball and turned into a snow bank. $185 later to have a HD wrecker lift my front end and swing it back over out of the snow bank. Very common occurance in the winter.

 

I thought it happened to me once. Turned out the two trucks next to me both started moving at the same time in the same direction at the same time I put the parking brakes on and it created the most surreal optical illusion. I about freaked out started slamming on the breaks, and nothing seemed to stop the truck, I was freaking out and my trainer looks over and says, "You OK?" It was embarrassing, but I guess you had to be there.

 

LMAO 25--sounds a lot like our Yard!!

 

I pulled into a rest area that was off of a county road one time in North Dakota. It was inclined upwards if you went in the entrance so I went in the exit and parked facing downhill. I got out and had used the washroom and when I came back a driver is standing by my truck and says " can't you tell an entrance from an exit" I said yep I sure can but you might want to call a tow cause I'm getting outa here and you're not! I got in and drove off and he sat there spinning away going nowhere facing up the incline!
Live and Learn!

 

Had the truck start rolling a bit when I stopped for fuel one morning . . . only tractor brakes, and it was raining . . . wet can cause the brakes not to set immediately if it's heavy enough.