runaway truck never coming back...
your brakes don't work so here's a gravel track...

*timeshift

Adding video to channels (Timeshift) - requested by Morganth.

*eia

Adding video to channels (Eia) - requested by ant.

Ok... maybe i'm just not seeing the obvious here... but "Runaway Truck Ramp"?... this happens frequently enough that they actually have a ramp for it?

On long, downward-sloped, high-grade highway sections you will see these... though hopefully better created/maintained than this one. If your brakes fail in a semi truck going down a 5% + slope for two miles you'd better hope they have runaway truck ramps or you're absolutely fucked.

That seemed to work like it was designed.

>> ^Januari:

Ok... maybe i'm just not seeing the obvious here... but "Runaway Truck Ramp"?... this happens frequently enough that they actually have a ramp for it?


silly goose, you must live where it's flat!

flatlander! (snicker)

>> ^Januari:

Ok... maybe i'm just not seeing the obvious here... but "Runaway Truck Ramp"?... this happens frequently enough that they actually have a ramp for it?


What's even more bizarre is that someone just happened to be filming one...

Wait... did he think that was just a regular exit or something? I didn't see any brake lights or signs of slowing down.

Total brake failure, I guess.

W A I>> ^marbles:

Wait... did he think that was just a regular exit or something? I didn't see any brake lights or signs of slowing down.

> What's even more bizarre is that someone just happened to be filming one...

made me think they were ?testing? ?trying? it... and found out they suck

did the guy at the end said "oh man your eyeball is all screwed up"?

>> ^marbles:

Wait... did he think that was just a regular exit or something? I didn't see any brake lights or signs of slowing down.


It's a scientific fact that pressing down a brake pedal is impossible while you're kissing your ass goodbye.

I want to know why they were video taping. I don't believe the YouTube description for a second.

from youtube comment:
this happened in jim thorpe pa while the local news was filming for a segment on how dangerous the ramp was for anyone who really had an emergency. 1) it is on the side of a very steep mountain road 2) it shouldnt have had those huge piles of stone but thats what the state thought was best in the 60s or 70s when constructed 3) the truck was a few tons over weight (the co. make transmission parts) 4)they have since corrected the ramp by grading it in the opposite direction with all that stone

Mountain passes have to have these on commercial roads every so often. Not sure this deserves eia, as it happens enough to semis that they need them. This guy saved his life taking that exit.

Complain to the truck brake manufacturers flatlanders .