I also can not believe that worked.

I'd hardly call that drifting. As if he intentionally put the truck into a controlled sideways slide.

Couldn't think of a better term.

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If that wasn't a double trailer, I'd say you're right. No way that was intentional though.

I had to go into the duped video to watch it. This Facebook shit is zoomed into the upper part of the video and is completely unwatchable. You should sift the youtube version.

Probably, it's mainly because I'm not on Facebook and never will be, but I don't care. I like not having spyware on my computers.

It seems to be a sift issue. I'll replace with the yt backup.

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I thought the rear trailer's brakes were locked and it just slid to the downhill side of the road on the ice. Not sure if you'd call that intentional or not.

Jalopnik reported broken air lines on the trailer brakes causing a lockup.

*ftw

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Never did a stint as a commercial driver, but passed all the courses and went through down to the Michigan Decision Driving training grounds and did runs in trucks with jacknife scenarios, etc.

He's not drifting there. His trailer brakes are locked up. And because of inertia and ice his trailer is trying to pass his cab.

The goal is to maintain control but keep as low a speed as possible, so you give power to the cab to pull the trailer back into line in a normal situation. In this case he doesn't want to accelerate because there's no safe ground to regain control on, so he's going to aim for keeping the cab going at equal to or just slightly faster than the trailer.

As soon as he hits a clear patch of pavement or level ground then a little bit of acceleration from the cab pulls the trailer back in line behind the cab, drop the acceleration as the drag from the trailer slows you down, etc.

A good reason to always wait before pulling back in after passing a truck on the highway. In an emergency their maneuvers can take long distances when fully loaded. If something goes wrong during your passing maneuver your want to be as far out of their way as possible.