What NOT to do when crossing an ice covered bridge

Once your in a qualified "jack-knife" situation, you are 80% reliant upon luck and the grace of God, and 20% reliant upon some sort of "learned skill". In my book that makes it an "irrecoverable situation" that you may or may not come out of without damage to your or someone Else's vehicle. Wind makes a difference, road crown makes a difference, 5 lbs air +/- makes a difference, 2k lbs +/- weight makes a difference ... point is, the idea is TO NOT get into a jack-knife situation in the first place and this whole conversation becomes UN-important and irrelevant.

The trucker in this particular video DID NOT ht his brakes. He never had time to even if he had wanted to at some point for whatever reason. He hit dry (non-icey) pavement and the steer tires grabbed and at that point the vehicle was "not straight" and you get what ended up occurring. All that occurred was he had a bit of power applied at the crest of the bridge, the engine's torque cause the drive axle to break traction on the ice and spin the drive tires causing the vehicle to get out of alignment then the rest is history. Icing jack-knifes are really not that complicated to de-cipher. Torque slippage, gravity slip, and/or a momentum shift, when un-prepared, you're going to have issues. PREPARE AND RECOGNIZE, problem solve.