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395K views · 5.9K reactions | If you are driving down the road and observe a runaway semi-truck coming towards you in your rearview mirrors, stay calm and attempt to merge to the left, as all runaway truck ramps in Colorado are on the right shoulder.

If you are driving down the road and observe a runaway semi-truck coming towards you in your rearview mirrors, stay calm and attempt to merge to the left, as all runaway truck ramps in Colorado are...

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[deathfromafar17]

Lol I know exactly where that is. Bad day for him.

 

[JTredway]

holy crap, that's insanity.

 

[Toxophilite]

Man he was moving!!

 

[mrmag00]

Well luck guy, he must have been moving that’s quite a was up the runaway ramp. Hope he has a change of underwear.

 

[OmahaBravo]

that’s quite a was up the runaway ramp. Hope he has a change of underwear.

exactly what i was thinking on both the ramp and the undies.
If he didnt have to change them when he lost his brakes, the coup de grace was him nearly topping out on that hill

 

[Apples]

Yeesh. Thank goodness not only for the gravel ramp but also for that left guardrail or he mighta wound up back on the interstate.

As we're all aware, diesel torque outputs have nearly tripled in the last 30 years. Used to be as a commercial driver you were taught (as I was) how to go down long grades without a Jake brake (Jacobs Engine Brake).

How you'd approach this would be to descend the mountain in the same gear you went up in, meaning s-l-o-w-l-y. Once you're under 35 MPH it's easy to "drag anchor" and keep a very light pressure on the brakes pedal.

Thing is w/ massive cast iron drums or discs as can be found on semi trucks/3-axle trucks is that cast iron takes a long time to cool down and "fanning" the brake pedal only makes things worse:

1. the brakes application uses too much pressure, creating excess heat

2. driver can exhaust his truck's air supply (modern rigs have greater compressor capacity but once a compressor falls behind it's tough to get back out in front of it).


Keep the descent speed under control (and in most cases the speed limits for trucks on long descents remains 35 MPH) which keeps the brakes rotational speeds low so that when light brakes pedal pressure is applied, heat buildup is reduced allowing longer application times to further control truck speed).

Air brakes work much differently than do our familiar hydraulic brakes do.

 

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[Velvet Elvis]

HOT TAKE incoming from a guy that has lived 10 minutes from that ramp for decades. I've seen a lot of this.

That's the lower ramp. He was almost down and had plenty of room to run in the right lane. There is also a FULL 12-16 foot SHOULDER the whole way into Silverthorne, which is only about 2 more miles.

PANIC RESPONSE. You have 2 options... take the exit, or take the ride.. in the heat of the moment, it's hard to judge... but an experienced driver that knows the road flattens out and then rises again literally just around the next couple corners.... and having a shoulder to lean on (pun intended)
Would never have made that choice.


His carrier will get a HUGE ticket and bill for the emergency services.

Fun fact.... I've seen the aftermath on 2 separate occasions of trucks rolling off the left side of that ramp. It ain't pretty. If not for the new guardrail, this moron would have done the same. You can see it bounce off the rail in the video. I would not exit the lower ramp unless it was a heavy traffic day.

But then again, I'm not a commercial driver...... but I WAS raised by class A drivers. Literally the only one in my immediate family that never got a CDL, aside from my sister. Mom, dad, uncles, brother, cousins.. All CDL holders.



The surface of that particular ramp is pea gravel, over 3 feet deep at the bottom. Hard to even walk across. You gotta kinda crawl. They used to have sand barrels too. But CDOT determined them inhumane or something.





P.S. JAKE BRAKE.

99% come down that hill in control, and 90% of them don't really use the friction brakes doing it.

That guy is an idiot, shouldn't be on the road in a big rig, and is likely in this country illegally.

F* him. Stupidity should be painful. Thank God he didn't hurt anyone else. Fatalities on that section of Interstate are extremely common.

 

[JTredway]

HOT TAKE incoming from a guy that has lived 10 minutes from that ramp for decades. I've seen a lot of this.

That's the lower ramp. He was almost down and had plenty of room to run in the right lane. There is also a FULL 12-16 foot SHOULDER the whole way into Silverthorne, which is only about 2 more miles.

PANIC RESPONSE. You have 2 options... take the exit, or take the ride.. in the heat of the moment, it's hard to judge... but an experienced driver that knows the road flattens out and then rises again literally just around the next couple corners.... and having a shoulder to lean on (pun intended)
Would never have made that choice.


His carrier will get a HUGE ticket and bill for the emergency services.

Fun fact.... I've seen the aftermath on 2 separate occasions of trucks rolling off the left side of that ramp. It ain't pretty. If not for the new guardrail, this moron would have done the same. You can see it bounce off the rail in the video. I would not exit the lower ramp unless it was a heavy traffic day.

But then again, I'm not a commercial driver...... but I WAS raised by class A drivers. Literally the only one in my immediate family that never got a CDL, aside from my sister. Mom, dad, uncles, brother, cousins.. All CDL holders.



The surface of that particular ramp is pea gravel, over 3 feet deep at the bottom. Hard to even walk across. You gotta kinda crawl. They used to have sand barrels too. But CDOT determined them inhumane or something.





P.S. JAKE BRAKE.

99% come down that hill in control, and 90% of them don't really use the friction brakes doing it.

That guy is an idiot, shouldn't be on the road in a big rig, and is likely in this country illegally.

F* him. Stupidity should be painful. Thank God he didn't hurt anyone else. Fatalities on that section of Interstate are extremely common.

im surely no expert but figured i'd ask you, how close is the flat area you describe. that guy was hauling major ass to damn near evel knievel off the otherside. do you think he could've ran out without tipping as you described farther down or was he simply just too far gone? I'm in GA so im flatter than a womans ass on wegovy around my parts in atlanta.

 

[The Evil Twin]

Hot brakes fail! That’s a bad day. After getting the rig extricated, he will be taking a trip to the ER to get vinyl, sheepskin, beads (or whatever seat covering) removed from his balloon knot.

 

[JTredway]

balloon knot.

That's an image

 

[The Evil Twin]

That's an image

When I write, I like to do so in a fashion that enables the reader to visualize the details of the story

 

[Velvet Elvis]

im surely no expert but figured i'd ask you, how close is the flat area you describe. that guy was hauling major ass to damn near evel knievel off the otherside. do you think he could've ran out without tipping as you described farther down or was he simply just too far gone? I'm in GA so im flatter than a womans ass on wegovy around my parts in atlanta.

Again, I'm not a cdl holder... but I've ridden in many rigs and have lived here for over 30 years.

Good drivers don't need their brakes.

There is a separate speed limit of 30mph for vehicles over 30k gvw on that hill.

It is absolutely not only possible, but mandatory tgat they gear diem and use the Jake to stay under that limit. If he was doing it properly, there is no f'n reason to use the traction brakes AT ALL.


Immigrants that can't read the signs... (and American assholes too) routinely ignore the 30 mph speed limit.

It's there for this very reason and peple die here every year because certain states hand out fucking CDLs to bpeple who CAN'T READ THE ROAD SIGNS.

It is a HUUUUUGE problem, that costs children's lives every year. ESPECIALLY HERE.

They don't belong on our roads. PERIOD. Find them all, send them home and fine their employers out of existance.

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Hot brakes fail! That’s a bad day. After getting the rig extricated, he will be taking a trip to the ER to get vinyl, sheepskin, beads (or whatever seat covering) removed from his balloon knot.

If you're using the brakes at all on this particular hill, recently dubbed "Ike Gauntlet" by the Boulder you tube yuppies.... you're already in trouble.

Speed limit 30 for trucks. 60 for everyone else. You can Jake brake a freight train down this hill if you keep it under 30

Must of these trucks do the driving for them nowadays...

The don't even have to jam gears anymore.

No excuse for incompetence.

 

[OmahaBravo]

Being from a flatter part of the country, i always make it somewhat of a game to see if i can navigate passes and such without touching my brakes or throttle. A lot easier in a diesel truck but still possible in a gasser if you aint afraid to let'r sing.

 

[Nommpop]

HOT TAKE incoming from a guy that has lived 10 minutes from that ramp for decades. I've seen a lot of this.

That's the lower ramp. He was almost down and had plenty of room to run in the right lane. There is also a FULL 12-16 foot SHOULDER the whole way into Silverthorne, which is only about 2 more miles.

PANIC RESPONSE. You have 2 options... take the exit, or take the ride.. in the heat of the moment, it's hard to judge... but an experienced driver that knows the road flattens out and then rises again literally just around the next couple corners.... and having a shoulder to lean on (pun intended)
Would never have made that choice.


His carrier will get a HUGE ticket and bill for the emergency services.

Fun fact.... I've seen the aftermath on 2 separate occasions of trucks rolling off the left side of that ramp. It ain't pretty. If not for the new guardrail, this moron would have done the same. You can see it bounce off the rail in the video. I would not exit the lower ramp unless it was a heavy traffic day.

But then again, I'm not a commercial driver...... but I WAS raised by class A drivers. Literally the only one in my immediate family that never got a CDL, aside from my sister. Mom, dad, uncles, brother, cousins.. All CDL holders.



The surface of that particular ramp is pea gravel, over 3 feet deep at the bottom. Hard to even walk across. You gotta kinda crawl. They used to have sand barrels too. But CDOT determined them inhumane or something.





P.S. JAKE BRAKE.

99% come down that hill in control, and 90% of them don't really use the friction brakes doing it.

That guy is an idiot, shouldn't be on the road in a big rig, and is likely in this country illegally.

F* him. Stupidity should be painful. Thank God he didn't hurt anyone else. Fatalities on that section of Interstate are extremely common.

I agree with you 100% on the lack of skill on the younger generation of truck drivers. They're all driving automatics now and they don't know how to manually downshift and utilize their Jake brakes so they ride their service brakes instead.

With that said, he still had a couple corners left, so I'd much rather he choose the runaway ramp than to have a repeat of the Lakewood incident in 2019 when a semi that burned up their brakes ran into 24 cars and a few other rigs on Interstate 70. Under most cases, first responders do not ticket ramp users, seeing that's what they're there for. But the tow bill on the other hand, yikes.

 

[Velvet Elvis]

I agree with you 100% on the lack of skill on the younger generation of truck drivers. They're all driving automatics now and they don't know how to manually downshift and utilize their Jake brakes so they ride their service brakes instead.

With that said, he still had a couple corners left, so I'd much rather he choose the runaway ramp than to have a repeat of the Lakewood incident in 2019 when a semi that burned up their brakes ran into 24 cars and a few other rigs on Interstate 70. Under most cases, first responders do not ticket ramp users, seeing that's what they're there for. But the tow bill on the other hand, yikes.

I can agree that the outcome of this situation is a lot better than many. I can not say if he would have made it otherwise.
I believe a good driver could have made it, but a gif driver would not be in the situation he was.

I'm glad he took the ramp as well.


We had one dumbass ten years ago get off the Silverthorne exit and lay it over in the divided highway intersection.

Ah he had to do was stay in the interstate. It climbs drastically as the exit is at the base of the climb to Frisco.

That entire section of i70 you posted is not a bad grade. Just a couple miles below the incident. There is about a mile and a half or so that is flat as Kansas before you get to the Silv. exit The runaway ramp is actually off of your map towards the east.