Yesterday on Fancy Gap--One Big Mess

bryan21384 · Nov 15, 2022

gentleroger said: ↑

Rain, plus speed coming up on a slow moving truck, plus driver not paying attention equals truck A hitting the brakes hard and swerving in front of Truck B who panics and fishtail sending cars scurrying everywhich way before putting himself in the ditch.

It takes some effort, but is doable. Happened in front of me on I44 eastbound approaching St Louis on an upgrade. Just people not paying attention and leaving themselves an out left a couple of trucks in the ditch.
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I know exactly which hill you're talking about too. People get careless there. I had a buddy who was pulling doubles in ice and wrecked on that hill, going to fast, lost control of the truck, and ultimately lost his job as well.

LtlAnonymous · Nov 15, 2022

supersnackbar said: ↑

1st Fed-Wrecks in the crash news in a while. Good to know they can still put a set in the ditch like the good ole days.
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Hey, some things never change.

takeheed777 · Nov 19, 2022

bryan21384 said: ↑

You'll smell that aroma of breaks by the time you get to that NC scale every time going southbound. The captioned said the Interstate was closed north so that made me assume such. Since they were going northbound, I had a visual of a couple of trucks in the granny lane, one going 30 and the one behind going 33. The driver going 33 probably tried to pass and cut another truck off, who could pull the hill. Then I had imagined all that mess happening.
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Time/Risk/Ignorance always get balanced. Often with very tragic results.

That particular part of the US seems to sift the risk/reward supertruckers from reality. I81 I64 also this am

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