Video - capture of truck on runaway ramp

[AutoMechanic]

I’ve never seen a truck use a runaway ramp in person. However one time me and my dad were cruising down I-77 in Virginia in dads rig and this family in this station wagon was out behind their vehicle having a picnic at the bottom of the ramp. My dad was laughing so hard. That’s the last place I’d stop for a picnic. When we came back thru later that day they were gone.

 

[Hall]

this family in this station wagon was out behind their vehicle having a picnic at the bottom of the ramp

If they're not from the area or have never traveled through there before, I guess it might appear to be a pull-off area. Yes, I know there's signage but again, it could be a concept they're 100% unfamiliar with and didn't know what it meant.

 

[dishdude]

Growing up they had this "runaway truck sand pile" on the side of the parkway that headed into the city and I remember asking my dad what it was. I remember him telling me about a bad accident where a runaway truck lost it's brakes and crashed into downtown Pittsburgh and this was built in response. Sure enough, a Google search revealed this. The sand pile is still there and years later I have driven by a car or two that must have thought it was an exit and drove into it.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=gL9scSG3K_gC&dat=19800429&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

 

[Rhymingmechanic]

Since some of you opened the door...

 

[bbhero]

That truck went a LONG way up that ramp. I assume the sand wasn't very deep - or didn't exist?

I actually saw one that had hit the ramp on I-40 in NC. I didn't see the event. The truck was at most 1/3 up the ramp. The driver was standing there - hands waving, explaining to a trooper what happened. There were fiberglass truck body parts everywhere.

I thought the same thing SC…. That guy used 90 percent of that ramp… He’d been in much worse shape that would have been like the Dukes of Hazard … Except instead of the General Lee it would have been 18 wheeler style..

 

[bbhero]

That’s I-70, west of the Eisenhower Tunnel, going downhill towards Dillon.

I recognize that by watching a 18 wheel truck drivers YouTube channel called “ Riding Shotgun”.

He drives in that area all the time. Great videos of interstate 70 and Rte 550 and other roads on his channel.

 

[4WD]

The static drag factor of the tire/gravel system just needs to be enough to prevent gravity from accelerating the truck back down the grade.

And at some point it becomes a body at rest - even the worn brakes could hold at that stage … (if still upright) …