Just like a car in hill country. Power up a slope and fry the brakes
coming down.
We have runaway truck lanes here, a side road filled with gravel. A
big loaded semi doesn't have much engine braking and then smokes the
brakes.
john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
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Just like a car in hill country. Power up a slope and fry the brakes
coming down.
We have runaway truck lanes here, a side road filled with gravel. A
big loaded semi doesn't have much engine braking and then smokes the
brakes.
We have one a few miles away. It is at the bottom of a series of zigzag >bends and on the *inside* of the last bend. Any runaway lorry would
have to negotiate the bends in order to to reach it and then turn
through two sharp 90-degree bends to enter it.
It seems to be mostly used by picnickers who have reasoned that the
chance of any runaway reaching them is minimal.
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