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Safety Run Off ramps for vehicles with brake failure
Mar 31, 2021 10:47 PM
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Safety Run Off ramps for vehicles with brake failure
Shardinian
The first truck having to dodge the truck that's already used the lane, AND the driver of that stopped truck bailing for his life
potatoardvarkhybrid
truck sleepy zone
MFfromHell
Is this Euro Truck Simulator because I would totally take that road if it was clear.
PinkEater
Wait, how are they going to remove... oh. Very nice.
RaxianTheta
Optimus! no!
a2s2020
Made me think of this: "I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it."
sirspringroll
The brown is all spiders....
TheLazyAfricanLion
We call it an "Arrestor Bed"
Clockworkdancerobot
"I'm just gonna take a little nap now." -- Truck
NoTalentForNames
All truckered out
Isorikk
I grew up in colorado and my dad would tell me all the ramps were for fast cars to make big jumps across the mountains
Isorikk
I didn't learn better until I was like 14
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
Safety Run Off ramps for vehicles with brake failure.
DouglasPouchOfHolding
I was not aware that semis could long jump.
Spuduck
I just went 'aww' when that little truck just flumped in
angpanange365
What is that beans?
thumbsupgif
The barrels at the end look like a challenge.
wheeeeeee
“FLOOR IT.”
Renzworth
These clearly aren't from the States. Our run offs could kill a man.
TheClockWatcher
We don't have that near me. Just blast the horn repeatedly and if no one moves thats their fault.
mynameisdallas
Is truck break failure that common?
twfeline
Trucks don't HAVE beaks.
tinydog
Those are expensive to reset. But probably less expensive than replacing your truck and payload.
iftheworldsatlarge
Or your life and many other's??
Qualtagh
Wonder if the truck is all fucked up by it. I think the benefit here is in not smashing other drivers into paste.
HobanusMagnus
How fast do you need to be going to hit the water barrels?
Zakcl
Wondering if a light vehicle going really fast might get there. I've seen f1 cars sort of skip off the gravel traps like a stone on water
dobroweigh
Don't provoke me.
Sennox
That's why you have to bring you car to check up every two years in Germany!
bleuamericans
WoodORama
Toonces would never take the safety run-off.
bigkingdingaling
That it happens enough they have a gantry crane on site and ready to go blows my mind. Those aren't cheap
Wonderkin
Well to be fair, the crane is brought in, not just standing by in case it's needed.
bigkingdingaling
Hmm, how can we confirm this as fact? Here I am thinking they roll it back up the hill into a little shed
cazzegiare
someone musta done the math and realized its cheaper than getting a crane there on demand every time.
TheRailroadMan
To be fair, there’s three trucks on the ramp in the first clip alone
hatefulonlytomyself
My question is why are so many brakes failing that they need this
tclothingw
Mountains
iHaveNothingGoodToSay
cause people keep cutting off trucks.
ButtProblems
Why do you keep saying this lol. Say something good
imcrimson
Also human error. Extended downhill with heavy load where the trucker doesn't baby the brakes sufficiently, failure risk increases
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Going down a long steep hill is hell on brakes. The more you use them, the hotter and squishier they get until they fail
bayerneud
probably because steep and slow so no energy goes into drag and all into brakes....
dreikommavierzehn
Even seen this a few times on regular cars. Happens when the load is too high or the driver doesn't handle the brakes & engine drag properly
Leaps
It is rare, but there are ~2 million semi-trucks in the US, so it happening to even 1 out every 10,000 trucks per year means 200 times.
hatefulonlytomyself
Okay Math checks out. Thank you random citizen
NewMoonRising
How are there that many trucks with break failure...two back to back?! That's crazy shit.
ddrow79
truck driver is riding the brakes down inclines causing them to go out. engine brakes help but banned in certain areas due to the noise.
lronMaiden
Engine braking banned? Where and why? What place can be that looney?
ddrow79
usually towns that like to build along highways and put up noise ordinances
felixovidiu11
Wow, this is crazy. Is it really true? Banning engine break in some areas because of noise pollution? I thought health and not dieing was ->
felixovidiu11
more important than investing on some soundproofing panels along the road, geeeezzz.
ApparentlyImaPsychopath
I think Colorado has something like this, except it's up a mountain and it's a dirt road. Hell idk lol
ITLKSEZ
Idaho too
Wonderkin
Most states have them along side the highways with hills. Still surprising how often trucks lose their brakes.
Wonderkin
But I'm sure in hilly areas they get overheated and the pads fail.
tclothingw
Lots
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Yes. There are a bunch along most of the highways in the Rocky Mountains
LinguisticBitch
Don't they inspect their trucks before their shifts??
lronMaiden
Does not matter? Brakes fade & fail on decent due to incorrect driving behaviour that overheats brakes causing them to slip.
StaleGale
It’s from going down steep hills. Shit gets hot af maintaining speed down them bad boys. They’re all over in Cali!
SirDistic
Do you inspect your brakes every time you get in your car? Do you routinely drive several thousand miles at a time?
marquisdechocula
If my answer to the second question were yes, then my answer to the first one would also be yes
LinguisticBitch
You never worked with heavy equipment and it shows. Any job that requires you to use equipments had you go through a checklist. -
LinguisticBitch
Either for security reasons or to cover your ass to not be blamed for broken machinery.
ScourgeOfAges
Anybody who's ever had to fill out one of those has also checked off at least one item without actually checking it. "Was fine yesterday"
SirDistic
You can check your brakes and they can still fail.
EvilKrikkit
It's all just Baked Beans.
SendNudis
Gonna need a lotta toast
ddet1207
neomagus00
O God, imagine the sound.
Iaimtomisbehave
blahdablah666
Braked Beans
needtwoknow
imgurnameistoohardtocomeupwith
This deserves so much more credit
TheLookAndFeelMUSIC
Hey! Not all truck drivers drive while high on meth!
aSideOfNerd
Always has been.
DankVoodoo
Bhockzer
Always had beans.
MaadMaanMaatt
Beans has always
MeatloafLovah
Roll that beautiful bean footage
whatbuttondoipush
Woof
KismetCrew
aRepost
BobaFetaCheese
Thinkin bout those beans
CoffinFullOfPudding
I;m thinking about thos beans
prestodigitation
Shitposting2017
MVP
KismetCrew
UnriskyBusiness
Is breathe failure such a prevalent issue that you'd need this?
forscience6686
Enough that they have an on-site gantry...
Icomeinpeaces
They're placed at the bottom of hills. Since trucks are prone to brake fade and/or the air supply runs out. Just an educated guess though.
forscience6686
That's just poor driving. Millions of trucks make it everyday with no problem.
japh
Shockingly, equipment failure isn't the norm.
forscience6686
Not maintaining low gears or adjusting brakes are operator failures, not equipment.
EvilKrikkit
Found the Republican.
forscience6686
forscience6686
As a commercial truck driver, if you can't maintain pressure while on a highway, or maintain low gears as indicated, do you deserve the job?
forscience6686
Not a republican, but go ahead and show me more of your assumption powers.
iHaveNothingGoodToSay
if the air supply runs out the brakes will be applied automatically
Icomeinpeaces
Thanks for the correction, I forgot that happens.
iHaveNothingGoodToSay
No problem I drive trucks and at 70 MPH an airline blow good thing was empty. one long-ass skid mark on the road and in pants
Icomeinpeaces
mammothmulcher
In what country does this happen often enough that it permits something like this being built?
FlyingDutchGirl
I'm also curious about other countries. Form the comments, they're quite normal in the US. But there are more countries with mountains
lronMaiden
There are those in mountainous areas of EU. Video is from EU.
FlyingDutchGirl
Do you know where in eu?
lronMaiden
I do not live in mountainous area, but i've seen them at alps regions while traveling around. Any long steep decline and you'll see them.
mike13815
I live in NY and there's a great deal by me. There's also tons in Pennsylvania and Ohio, from my experience. Also Canada.
Skywatcher16
what part of NY? i live in the sourhter teir and have never seen one in my life
mike13815
You certainly have seen them, just never from this perspective before. They look like exits on the highway, nothing more.
Skywatcher16
the only highway exists ive ever seen are actual exits. as in, exits i see normal cars using as i pass them or use myself.
mike13815
They're often on the left, and can be built into the "No U-Turn" connections between highway sections. On the right there's often a fence.
PonyMadness
All of them with safe roads. If there's a mountain pass, there's likely a runaway ramp somewhere.
Flyspyro
Ya I live in oregon.. there are ramps on the mt ranges..
mammothmulcher
I’ve never seen one in my life.
PonyMadness
Go to the rockies and you'll see them.
mammothmulcher
I love on the east coast of Canada, likely why I have never seen em.