This Is Why Runaway Truck Ramps Could Save Your Life

If you ever have the misfortune to experience disastrous brake failure on a fast downhill stretch of road, you better pray that one of these ingenious run-off zones has been installed!
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Dominic Angelico

Does anyone know if we have these in Australia cos I’ve never seen one

01/30/2016 - 23:15 |
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Yeah we do they’re called arrester beds

01/31/2016 - 06:28 |
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Mr.PurpleV12

My dad is a professional CDL certified truck driver. He has had to use one of these once in Navada, when he was working for Old Dominion.

01/31/2016 - 02:45 |
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Anonymous

@2:45 “Saftey PULLOUT”

01/31/2016 - 05:36 |
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Michael Rempel

Fun fact: when the railroad was first built across the Rockies in Canada, they used runaways for the trains so they could get down the hills. They’d go down a little bit, run up an escape, go down a little more, run up another escape, and so on.

01/31/2016 - 06:11 |
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Hless 1

Some of these trucks carry 35,000 lb loads. Nothing but engine brake on a 16 degree decline?

01/31/2016 - 06:15 |
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Anonymous

We have this type of truck ramp in Slovenia:

01/31/2016 - 08:56 |
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Anonymous

99.9% of trucks going down one these steep hills will have no issue but put 200 trucks a day down them & find out how many of those 0.1% develope into a proper runaway and these ramps soon get some use. I’ve seen a couple of trucks with smoking brakes at the bottom of Cunningham’s gap in qld, Australia & two trucks stuck in the ramp awaiting rescue. But at least they were safe.

01/31/2016 - 10:15 |
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Anonymous

Is this something new in the US? In Europe you can find those ramps everywhere.

01/31/2016 - 12:32 |
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Anonymous

Good idea. I only know of one truck ramp in the UK, in Edenfield, and that’s a private one for a quarry.

01/31/2016 - 14:47 |
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Anonymous

So, like, when their brakes fade, why can’t they engine brake?

01/31/2016 - 17:33 |
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