Anyone had to use a runaway truck ramp?

This post is in line with my way of running. The jake on a slippery road lets me know the moment traction is deteriorating. I have enough experience to steer a truck out of a beginning skid, and at the point where you get a little wheel slip from the jakes, I still have the braking power of three trailer axles a steer axle with brakes to add to slow down for the changing condition.

 

Well I got to bail off of atigun at 4 am yesterday with a fresh new cover of snow.
From what I have been reading in this thread, just confirms my position that I am glad I don't have to truck down south anymore. lol

Going north, there is only 3 or 4 percentage markers on hills and they are small ones with no ryme or reason why they are marked, there is no suggested speed signs, we have no chain laws to deal with, but a lot of the curves do have speed markings, but It is basically just left up to the driver.

 

it's actually an option in the pcm/ecu. Your company probably spec'd that option to be turned on when they ordered the trucks.

We have new(2018/2019) Freightshakers and Kw's . no brake lights come on with the engine retarders . We also have no speed governors ,"fuel saving" tunes ,timed acceleration limiters , horn honking when the parking brake isn't set ,etc . All that crap is spec'd by these big companies

 

How much of a hill is that there Atigun?

 

Timed acceleration limiting?

You mean to tell me that they can essentially render that hammer a state of Null and you do not add power after a fixed time?

 

Google says it is 11 and 12%, we have a lot of much steeper ones on the road, but none that are that long.
It was still snowing when I came back across yesterday evening, but the state had bladed it down to dirt, the shelf was worse than the pass.
I will be leaving out in an our, so will she what she looks like early in the morning.
Just finished washing the truck, hopefully a lot of the rain has dried up and maybe the state won't be watering today. It would benice to not have an inch of mud covering the whole truck. lol

 

The truck will only accelerate at so many mile per hour per second

 

Just make sure you take the runaway ramp when your brakes fail. Ultimately the driver will be held responsible if he kills or mames someone, regardless. Just watch the YouTube video of the driver in Colorado who's facing manslaughter charges after bypassing two ramps and ultimately killing one driver in a car.

 

I will not tell someone to just up and take the ramp, unless there is no other options, some ramps are going to kill the driver anyway. If you have ever seen a truck hit a ramp, even the good ones are not a place you really want to be, it is best to just stay out of trouble.

 

they're not going to kill the driver they wouldn't have made them back in the day if they were supposed too..they're going to basically F' the heck up out of your equipment possibly rendering it destroyed.. they shouldn't even be used nowadays if you were trained properly a jake brake will hold you back no problem as long as it doesn't fail
if you know how to gear down or start at the right speed..
just last night I had a DMF as I was getting ready to pull into the truck pull off at Monteagle, an idiot Eastern European from Ga Bowlingreen Kentucky worthless outfit cruise right past the mandatory pull off. So Eurotrash Trucker starts sailing down the grade at about 55 miles an hour..in that case if you probably get going a good hundred hundred twenty plus mile an hour yeah maybe you'll die as you hit the escape ramp but it's your own fault under stupid circumstances.
DMF imports like
that I have no respect for you or your kind. You are the ones that ruined our once-proud North American professional trucking industry.. and the five years from 2004 to 2009 you foreign clowns managed to cause not only CSA but unfortunately came in ridiculous numbers now you've set the bar so low but it seems like two arms two legs of beating hard and no brain is all you need to drive a truck anymore..
and the more I see new Craigslist Cowboys I'm really starting to believe it