4 Killed When Driver Says His Brakes Failed Prior To Accident

Unfortunately many drivers today don't master the vehicle they are driving! New drivers mainly lack the experience. Older drivers sometimes get a burr in their saddle because they don't shift gears anymore and hate the truck they drive and refuse to master it. The new Volvo I'm driving has a crap engine brake and takes a little more care managing your stopping power. The '19 Freightshaker I got out of had a great engine brake!

JD

 

The Junkliner Crapcadias I had at Creaffer, it didn't have manual mode, but regardless of whether or not you had the jake turned on, the jake would still come on 2 or 3 mph over the max governed speed.

 

Two weeks ago I made my brakes work hard from Vail to Denver. Normally I go down mountain passes with my engine brake only. This time there was stop and go traffic most of the way and I noticed zero deterioration in my brakes. There have also been other incidents were I had to come to a complete stop going 65+ down a 7% grade and it was no problem at all.

Really makes me wonder what people are doing to cause their brakes to fail... That Denver crash from a few years ago is still in my memory every time I go down that pass.

 

But you see poorly maintained braking systems everyday.
And even the best system can get hot enough to fade to zero braking effectiveness if driven incorrectly.