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03-27-2017, 08:32 AM
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 My Rank: SERGEANT MAJOR Poster Rank:284 Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 4,550 Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Quoted: 554 Post(s)
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Re: Incoming Tanker Truck of Death
What gets me is, why let up on the horn? I would have stayed on it the entire time. Unless that was faulty too and crapped out on the guy.
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03-27-2017, 12:53 PM
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 My Rank: MASTER SERGEANT Poster Rank:563 mc² Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,724 Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Quoted: 299 Post(s)
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Re: Incoming Tanker Truck of Death
too fast /overloaded descending > brakes got heated up more than expected, can't cool down enough. So the brakes are now very close to the overheated state > ending the curve ... oops  > driving lane(s) occupied with yellow folks > the sudden emergency brake lifts brake status over its tipping point > brakes failInstructive is the video I saw (on HR?) of a driver escaping capture, avoiding as a boss all kinds of obstacles, fast police cars, ... but his brakes got too overheated, they had no special cooling dev. as in F1 cars, so all stopping was suddenly impossible. |
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04-05-2017, 05:31 AM
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| My Rank: FIRST LIEUTENANT Poster Rank:238 Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 5,940 Mentioned: 4 Post(s) Quoted: 873 Post(s)
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Re: Incoming Tanker Truck of Death
A truck driver did exactly that to stop his break-less truck and avoid hitting a long line of cars in which I was, there was a deep gorge on one side of the railing so he risked his life to avoid making a huge tragedy, if he hadn't done that I among many would have been in a video on this site about nine years ago!
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