Hey, have you ever found yourself careening down a massively steep mountainside hill in a runaway eighteen-wheeler with the brakes cut? If so, there’s really no need to worry.
AWESOME!
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10 thoughts to “#926 The Runaway Truck Ramp”
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so true! Rt 77 in WV has some good ones!
Ben… are you a fellow West Virginian? Or just a passer-by?
I’ve always wanted to drive up the safety ramps that I’ve seen, where the dirt trail winds off into some unseeable area. What if there’s something awesome up there that you can only know about if your brakes are shot?!
The truck went over the mountain, the truck went over the mountain, the truck wnt over the mountain, to see what he could see…and all that he could see, all that he did see, was the other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain, trees and a deep ravine! Seriously! My trucker brother in law had to use one of these once and when it wasn’t quite long enough to stop the truck, the pup went over for a birds eye view while luckily the trailer tires had picked up enough gravel to hold the truck back on the hill side and so that he only sustained minor injuries! Wild and true story! Now maybe they don’t all have this view but I reckon close and hope this will suffice your curiosity:)
*there may even be a good story in there…Steve was his name.
I hope I never have to use one of these but I like knowing they are there.
Sometimes I wish I had one of these for my mouth!
One of the many reasons why I would love to be a truck driver. Just me and the open road. It might get pretty boring after a while though. Anyway, I’ve never seen one of those Runaway Truck Ramps, but they seem pretty useful. I bet truck drivers cut their brakes on purpose just for a chance to speed down that hill. It would be like extreme tobogganing. But in a truck.
Extreme tobagganing…super metaphor for this, I imagine!
My mom drives a 10-wheeler. As well as being the beginning of an excellent joke, it’s also true. She reports that while runaway truck ramps are indeed a welcome sight when your break lines catch fire (yes, this is what’s most likely to happen and more often than you’d want to comfortably think about and no, they don’t do it on purpose), the driver is never tra-la-la on approach. It’s more of a holy-shit-I-hope-I-don’t-die experience. Also, you won’t be pulling out of it on your own. If ever you can’t resist the urge to dive in, make sure your cell phone is charged; you’ll need to call a tow truck to haul your vehicle out.
My side. Your side, and suicide! But on the more serious side….the greatest thing since sliced bread going down the Roger’s Pass!