Runaway Truck Ramps

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1. No

2. How often do you hear of a truck in Ireland’s breaks going and it being unable to stop causing massive fatalities?

   Hardly ever and that’s because we have stick safety laws in place for our road vehicles, that and the amount of distance travelled in ireland isn’t really enough for a trucker to wear them down in a given trip

3. There’s one in Letterkenny on the N13

   Edit: if you open your favourite map app and use street view on 54.939333, -7.696178 you’ll see it.

4. I’ve seen at least 2, gravel traps basically. Couldn’t tell you where the are tho or if they still exist.

   There are crawler lanes as well.

5. We have them in the north of Scotland on the steep downhill roads. They’re mental, will stop the lorry pretty much dead in its tracks.

   Found out from an ex-lorry mechanic that if you’re not wearing your seat belt properly inertia will throw you through the windscreen.

   Mind blowing

6. Usually just on very long descents where HGVs can experience brake boil/fade (brake system heats up so much that brake fluid boils creating pockets of air. Air being compressible renders hydraulic braking system ineffective as it relies on the incompressibility of the brake fluid in an air tight environment). We don’t have many roads where this situation could happen.

7. I saw a film like this, it was about a bus that has to maintain a certain speed and if its speed went below that speed it would explode. I think it was called “the bus that couldn’t slow down”.