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- A runaway truck ramp is a traffic device that enables vehicles which are having braking problems to safely stop. It is typically a long, sand- or gravel-filled lane connected to a steep downhill grade section of a main road, and is designed to accommodate large trucks or buses. The ramp allows a moving vehicle's kinetic energy to be dissipated gradually in a controlled and relatively harmless way, helping the operator to stop it safely without a violent crash.
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Imagine being in an emergency where you have no brakes, see an emergency runaway lane and be relieved, only to see there's already someone in it.
@@DS-zo8xs yes, that is the clip he is referring to
@@DS-zo8xs The sky is blue
@@DS-zo8xs The floor is made out of floor
That's like when your busting for a shit and your relieved to see a toilet only to find out someone else is in it.
Public toilets be like:
This needs a sign that says “One Emergency at a Time Please” 😂😂
Lol
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LMAOO fr
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I have often wondered how effective these sand banks are and now I see that they function very well. Thanks for this video.
but be carefull. with a car it dont work.
@@deckystrasnigaming8263 Ok thanks it was just a hypothetical...I suppose it is a question of weight.,
@@deckystrasnigaming8263 why tho?
@@natlus6805 car too light and will continue much longer than a heavy truck which begins to sink?
@@deckystrasnigaming8263 Gravel traps work on cars too, they are frequently used in circuits as runoff areas. Just becasue the car won's sink into it as much, doesn't mean the graven won't absorb part of the kinetic energy.
That was incredible! This experience of loosing control of your rig must be extremely frightening.
Don't you mean freightening? 😉
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yeah its not great, especially knowing that your 70,000 pounds of shit is going to kill anyone that gets anywhere near the front of it
Rogel Aguilera-Mederos needs to watch this
or even losing control
0:30 Blue barrels: Is that everything you've got? You get bonuspoints if you reach us...
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Tenpin bowling
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Hahaha 😂😂
@@whathehellisthis Hahahahaha 😂😂
Road crew: "So, what happened to your brakes?"
Truck Driver: "Brakes? Oh, my brakes are fine. This just looked fun!"
Lol
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Fuckin Russia. Lmaoo
@@gloomy2mb in soviet Russia brakes break you!
@@gloomy2mb I've never seen such ramps in Russia, sorry. I've never even heard of them and I don't see why they exist because I'd assume that people's brakes work. Like seriously, what country does have such ramps....?
Edit: typo
On a motorway back in the 80's going on holiday, I remember my dad calmly saying the brakes had failed on our VW fastback. He managed to get it neatly parked at a service station without incident, and we had to let the overheating brake pads cool down before we could carry on to somewhere and get it looked at asap. Can't imagine the level of anxiousness when it happens to a truck driver.
Your dad: so bad news and good news. Bad news is we no longer have working breaks, good news I don't need them
Did he find a hill or lose speed on a turn?
@@berthaantoinettamason9207 I think he just moved into the inside lane, must have relied on engine breaking and kept a good distance from the vehicle in front. Not sure what he did the moment he realised, but there was no evasive maneuver needed.
Yeah would hate to brake the breaks wouldn't we......
My '88 Ford 150's brakes failed with a stop light ahead..I laid on the horn and a car gunned it through. Coasted into a service station. Hair raising experience no matter what your wheels are!
The name of this highway here in Brazil is "Regis Bittencourt", the old nickname of this highway before these security measures was "Regis Bittencourt, the highway of death", many people died because of this highway and its endless curved descents. This is the main link between the states of Sao Paulo and Parana.
Woah isso é no Brasil? Eu não sabia... bem feito! Nossa
@@arturarruda8151 Sim, pra ligar SP a Curitiba, demorou até pra ser feito, a rodovia precisou ser chamada de rodovia da morte pra prestarem atenção.
Esta é a BR 376 entre Curitiba e Joinville... Município de Guaratuba.
Wrong. BR-376, descida da serra, em Guaratuba/PR, sentido Santa Catarina.
Fica na divisa entre Parana e Santa Catarina.
As a retired truck driver,I can attest to the fear a driver feels when his brakes fail.Had that happen to me when the municipality I worked for decided I should use a truck with hydraulic brakes that been sitting for over a year.The brake lines had rotted to the point that the brake fluid literally started spewing out as I was making my way through a high traffic area.Thankfully I could gear the truck down to a stop.I was sweating pretty good by the time that drive ended.
Can you not just put your hazards on and natural slow to stop into the hard shoulder ? Rather then carry on at full speed into some sand
@@dwaynedibley997 that's not possible
Dayyyumm
Glad your okay tho 💯
Good on you for not crashing. Weird that anyone would take a vehicle out of storage and just run it without basic maintenance first.
@@dwaynedibley997 these breakaways are usually along relatively steep downhill highways
This ramp is located in Brazil. Yes it is cheap to make and saved many lives, they are building more like this as this one was successful. Brazilian geography is full of hills and accidents like this are common, well I hope it becomes a "thing from the past".
Sim muito bom
o brasil n é o centro do mundo....
Very nice innovation
Doesn't look like it's "cheap to make". There's even a built in crane.
NO, I DONT WANNA TO GO TO BRAZ-
Oh wait, this actually isn't so bad :D
Honestly a genius idea I bet it's saved many lives this runaway Lane should invest in the idea worldwide
They’re pretty common in mountainous areas where trucks are more prone to brake failure and uncontrolled acceleration down the hills.
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Pretty sure these are in most places where there are hills. Its not a regional thing
God bless truckers for all they go through. I’ve seen this in person, twice and it’s frightening as hell.
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Great skill to the one that came after the one already in the pit. Drove around and dived in.
Double stacking 😂.what a strategy
Bruh if you can’t drive around other vehicles you shouldn’t be driving lol
@@jonw9791 It's different in a semi, bud.
@@jonw9791 you use your feet to steer in a semi.
@@OllieMcKrollie madness. Well i’ve learnt something new here lmao.
The second truck was just offering moral support.
LOL
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They’re doing this purposely for fun, like jumping off a cliff but for fat trucker guys
Making the first truck less embarrassed.
"Sup, dude?"
Sou caminhoneiro no Brasil, já vi umas pistas de escapes dessas no Paraná. Deveria ter no Brasil todo, mas infelizmente não tem. Isso salva muitas vidas
This needs to be a dot regulation in EVERY state,ESPECIALLY in heavy populated cities.
Duh
Yessss, recently in my country a truck that lost its brakes crashed 15 cars, 8 dead and more than 30 injured... It could have been prevented with something like that.
This is for mountainous areas. Eastern Kansas doesn't need runaway Truck ramps.
Why tf does a densely populated city need a runaway truck ramp? That doesn't even make any sense
@Cedric Ford, here in CA these are pretty common coming off the Sierra Nevada range on major truck routes.
These look a lot safer than the runaway truck ramps they build here in the U.S.
Yeah i dont know how i feel about going up Hills with no working brakes
Might look better but its more expensive than us ones
What's the difference between these and the ones in the US?
@@Jehty_ Sometimes they kinda just build a road-wide gravel pit on a side hill following the natural curve. So if the highway is slighly in a valley, the ramp will go up. Nothing really wrong there as they usually begin flat for about 100 meters which is usually enough to stop a truck.
However the main the difference is the specific infrastructure around the sand/gravel pit. There is tarmac on each side which facilitate extraction plus the crane is already there far in the back. In the USA it's often only a sand pit with grass around it.
Well, yeah
"Brake lane is full. Please have an emergency somewhere else"
B R A K E not B R E A K.
Understandable
An arrestor bed not “ brake lane” I think
this thing will cost alot if they want to pace it on all truck ways because some times truck needs to drive more than Thousands of miles
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Круто. Продумано великолепно, всё ради безопасности движения. Молодцы какие.
This is BEst. !
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This saves so many lives. There was a recent tragedy on a highway near where I live. Truck armed against like 10 or 20 cars. Horrible thing. These ramps need to be everywhere.
0:40 please don't have an emergency here
Gonna Be A Little Accident.
Closed for emergencies ATM please come later
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Monke
offering protection for the workers ahead. "you gonna die, granted, but at least we already saved somebody today"
I did not know about this.
The fact that this is a real world thing that has more than likely prevented so much from happening already is amazing.
Yeah.. I wonder at what point did they realize this was a common problem.
I've only ever seen them in the Smokey Mountain belt here in the US. The ones I remember aren't sandtraps, they depend on gravity- inclines with bumps that will catch your tires to keep you from rolling back down once you're stopped. These in the video look much better-designed.
@@lynxminx4 There are quite a few of them where I live. There are different types of them, I've mostly just seen the sand ones like this but some of them go up hills and some of the newest types I've heard of have metal nets to catch the truck.
Yeah but some people stop right their not very often but some people think it’s a good idea
"Runaway" is when the engine is so worn that the engine can burn its own oil. You completely lose control of the engine. It turns higher and higher until it tears it apart. The engine has incredible power in the case. This can happen with all diesel engines. The brakes do not survive this for long.
Okay so I really admire the engineering, but did anyone else notice the cuteness of the truck when it was being lifted? It looked like a giant puppy 😍
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Какие же молодцы, мало того, что придумали подобные комплексы, так ещё и создали их!
I like how disappointed the last truck looks when it's being recovered
Truck be like 😒
🤣🤣🤣🤣 right
I love it when people get my humor. 🤣🤣🤣
He's just looking for something
😂😂😂
’This break lane is occupied at this moment. Please resort to a hard left turn straight out into the forest 🌳’
Truck vs Bear
It’s Ikson!
Luv it. Really lol.
Hmm
why is ikson here lol
Many moons ago when I was living in Phoenix, they had these runaway ramps around Black Canyon City.
I was heading up to Flagstaff and it was the only time I have ever witnessed one of these being used.
Trucker was coming down the hill and lost his brakes. He's blowing his horn trying to get idiot drivers out of the way.....hit that ramp and just stopped.
It was frikken' amazing. No one got hurt, no one died. Best invention ever.
I am baffled that the designers didn't really think to include a SEPARATE air supply for the horn, in case this exact thing happens. Retarded design that turns a giant speeding mass of steel into an almost silent torpedo. Idiots.
Is "idiot" the epic attribute of everybody other than lorry drivers?
So they are idiots because they are ahead and in the way of an out of control Truck. or is idiots one of those negative words that become cool depending how you use it like "Bad"?
@@leon00778 So you just made yourself look really dumb. You need air pressure to release the brakes before driving, and the brakes are actuated by venting small amounts of air to encourage partial engagement of the brake shoes. If a truck lost all air catastrophically, the brakes would automatically engage until pressure comes back up.
The runaway trucks you see here are from lack of maintenance and adjustment, carrying too much of a load, or not using the gears to slow the truck; instead, they rely on brakes all the time, usually until they're going way too fast. This leads to overheating/gassing of brake shoes and loss of braking ability as a result (proper descents involve low gears, lower speed than the rest of traffic, and in worst case scenarios, activating the very loud 'jake brake')
Brake canisters are isolated from the rest of the system by brake relays, multiple tanks, and check valves. You are more likely to win the lottery many times over than to lose air power to the horn all of a sudden.
You are baffled, because you are willfully ignorant. A quick google would've told you this information.
Source: Decades of working on these trucks in the family business.
well said sir
That looks very practical.
i love the fact that the crane is already included in this lane
I imagined how often it happend to be like that. No car inspection? You can see two consecutive wow that is not normal. It's bad
nah man they brought it later
@@denizegeedige See that rail on lane side (thumbnail)
@@denizegeedige there's no way to transport a crane like at :37 efficiently every time this happens. Thats just built there. Otherwise they would have those crane truck combos
@@jonybe5854 For real. I know for a fact that semi’s and commercial vehicles are required to do pre-trips.
Engineers: how do you stop runaway trucks?
My country: easy, we use houses
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0:23 congrats to the trucker. He saved his life and probably saved the lives of others.
I had the brakes on my Durango go out while going down a steep hill and it was absolutely terrifying. This is amazing.
Yeah…this is why I walk everywhere I need to go. With my bad voodoo luck, I can no longer trust in things like brakes in a car.
Dodge Durango.... enough said lol
@@ErikBreivik Yeah, this is why I don't leave my home & live in a bubble. jk
More like someone tampered with your brakes. Crazy evil people.
@@vanillaice8251 "Crazy"? Or.... *KOMMUNIST?* lotsa Kommunism going 'round these days. Fascism, actually.
0:36 “This ramp is closed for the time being. Please use the next ramp 3 km down the road from here. Thank you for your cooperation.”
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@@c5h87 ,😂
"And good luck..."
Savage 😂
@@c5h87 Hilarious pal 😂😂😂
This track saves lot of human lives...
You are very good at speaking the england
@Ehsan Rahravan ye cuzzy g drilla
Yes it does
i can’t get over the fact that you used an apostrophe to try to make it grammatically correct, when all you had to say was “lives”. lol
good try though. the board of grammar nazi’s accept your humble effort.
"lives"
Those arrester beds are lifesavers. We have a couple beside long, steep downhill runs and it's not that trucks lose their brakes very often, but when they do ...
These are excellent. We have had these truck stop pits in Western Australia for many years.
Man who ever thought of these are actually life savers
Whoever thought we needed big rigs in the first place was a fu¢king moron. Trains and smaller local delivery trucks can EASILY replace these worthless rolling death machines AND make a fuck ton more jobs
@@nikm5628 yeah hell no for instance trying to carry enough fertilizer to fertilize a field with auger truck ( basically a big rig with an hopper that feeds into an auger on the back) rather than just dropping off a trailer makes a job that should only take 30 minutes at most into an all day thing.
@@nikm5628 you are an idiot lmao you know how hard it would be to keep stores full 🤣
@@yungkaxDIEx the sad thing is 7 people agree with him..
@@nikm5628 gotta be one of the dumbest thing I've heard
Shows just how wonderfully effective these gravel traps are.
And how this highway was poorly designed, allowing such intense gradients
@@lukoh5540 hills get in the way and tunnels are expensive. they didn't make it sloped for someone's amusement XD
@@TuriGamer it's always the person with an anime pfp 🤦♂️
@@dom4591 hes german, dont expect much...
And why vw needs to rework their truck
It's been a long time since I drove around the country, those are great additions! And they work so perfectly doing his little damage to the truck as possible! Jobs well done all the way around!
How many times this wanna come up in my recommended! ...Because I'll watch it every time 👍
That ramp with the crane already included is a pure 200 IQ move
Way ahead of us in the U.S. Awesome and practical idea !
Agree awesome
This segment is under consession to a privative company to next 20 years, since they rebuild the road and to safer standarts.
CSM (crane/pebble bed) is important company in Civil Construction here in Brasil.
I am thinking the crane came in afterward. If a truck rams that crane, then that's a few hundred grand down the drain.
200IQ? Just put some lights and close it off
Whoever designed this, you are a lifesaver/genius
If only they put that person in charge of designing brakes for trucks instead.
@@willgia truck brakes are a matter of cost... we have braking systems that would not overheat, and we also have engine brakes that reduce the load on the brakes (failure to shift properly on a grade can lead to loosing control though). The brakes installed on trucks are a balance of cost and performance... you could install 100k worth of brakes on a truck, but... that'd be the drivers salary for a year. Failures being that common that you'd need a crane on the ramp... indicate rampant lack of maintanance in the truck fleet or an extreme grade , or lots of inexperienced drivers etc... it isn't normal.
just say they you dumb ass
@@willgia Loose rocks. you think that he would have made better brakes? Why?!
He wants money for the ramp idea...
As for the pc comment.
It was a man, just like the truck was designed by MAN.
Misanthrope out.
Yes, Brazil folks
Awesome! Every interstate needs this in place!!!!!!!!
Works like a charm. Very cool to watch. Thx for sharing
You know it gets used A LOT when there is a gantry crane on hand, lol.
This is true
My thoughts exactly. Lol
You know it gets used alot when there is already a truck in the first clip before the second arrives
@B H Typo... so what? "Lighten up Francis" - Bill Murray in Stripes
@@ad7818 Only 6 minutes passed between the two events. More than 90 events like that were registered in the first year of operation of that emergency lane. Routhly one accident every four days.
I feel like this should be the next big automotive sport. Truck Ramping.
Stfu 🤫
@@bristianmelz9568 duck a sick
Here in Australia we have gravel road ramps. They just go up so you loose momentum. I think as it slows you try to turn to stop it rolling back or something.
@@bristianmelz9568 nah
I agree. But we should have a live animal posted every 5 meters, to see how many animals they knock down. 10 points for each splattered animal! Yeeeee!
These footages are from a road in the south of Brazil, this road has a high incidence of accidents involving heavy trucks, due to this strech of the road being in a mountain ridge, with lots of accentuated descents, so even with trucks having a reasonably small mileage, there have been lots of tragic accidents in the last couple of years, due to varied reasons, brakes malfunctions (overheating) and also and maybe more to the point, drivers imprudence coupled with (perhaps) very low driving experience in this type of road.
For sure... I'm living near this region, that platform is located in a road which are between the states of Paraná and Santa Catarina, but when I passed through that location it is rarely to see a truck stopped at it. Most of all, the engineers were very clever to see and build this structure 😁
Thank God for these ramps. I never had to use one, but I've seen trucks in them a few times.
Thats a great idea. My grandfather lost brakes going down a very steep hill in a transport. There were cars waiting at the bottom so he cut the wheel and crashed the whole thing on its side at 80kmp and slid down the hill just bumping the back car, which had a terrified young mother and her infant in the back. He wasnt badly injured, but got into a legal battle with his trucking company and they never accepted responsibility for their faulty maintenance, which is very common.
I bet that mum still tells her child that story
Glad your grandad made it out alive
Hero grandfather, saved many lives that day
Good on your grandad for saving those people and how terrifying of a decision he had to make
JUST TELL ME HE WON THE CASE so I can be able to sleep happy
*brakes
Nice setup, even has a crane to lift the trucks. Someone was thinking when they designed that. Great job!
its easy to think if you have a budget to think with-
I haven't read the explanation but I'm gonna guess....Japan?
@@texasred2702 Brazil. Many of the highways close to the shore have to go through steep declines. Since most of our cargo transport is done by highways, we have a huge amount of trucks that need to go down these highways to reach the ports. We had a lot of accidents on these roads that were caused by trucks overheating their brakes, so they started to adapt those highways to have these escape areas to reduce the number of accidents, and someone had the good idea to put those cranes on most of them to help take stuck trucks out.
@@efreitorsroul9332 BUDGET ??? AHAHAHAHA THIS IS BRAZIL MEN
what makes that particular section of road so susceptible to runaway trucks that they would invest so much in a single ramp though?
This is a genius idea and a great solution to a problem that shouldn't exist. Imagine if trucks were just maintained properly.
I saw this happen on my last trip involving a controlled access highway. Pretty cool to see in person.
Drivers when they see the lane completely occupied: Guess I'll just Die then
lmao
Five D's of dodgeball, bro.
Drivers need to do pre trip and post trip inspections every day and twice on Sunday so that their trucks don't "lose" their brakes. Maintain your vehicles properly don't just jump in and go. And dont get pissed when the state police pull you over for safety inspections either. They do this to avoid accidents on the road.
@@JSTIZZY189 Are we talking truck drivers or just your everyday car drivers?
@@osfichofis3453 clearly one is far more dangerous than the other but it should apply to both.
I'm from the future and this is actually how the truck olympics begin. A global event that united all nations in fairplay and competition. The long jump for trucks saved humanity.
Question is, do they use professional racers or truck drivers?
@@user-sc8mj5bb6k professional truck drivers. Coke and speed is allowed.
@@user-sc8mj5bb6k professional racing truck drivers
@@caioaugusto6819 Hell yea, I'm becoming a truck driver.
i come from the future, and i'm proud to announce i'm becoming a truck driver! i put tons of cocaine into my fuel tanks to make everybody around me high.
Had to do that coming off Shasta mountains with my brother driving in the 90's. My knees are still shaking.
broooo.. wth how they lifted it out at the end. So cool. Salute to engineers.
That’s so damn clever, I honestly didn’t even know things like this existed and that just shows how much acknowledgement some countries have
gravel traps. theyre used most commonly in racetracks. always wondered why they never implemented something like this in the US.
you know there are countries that have these and there are countries who have working vehicle safety inspection services.
Well, I too first learnt that these things existed in somewhere
@@jaychang689 we dont have that either in Indonesia. This type of thing require extra land area
I've only seen one in my entire life here in Spain. Idk why they aren't more common
For whom it may concern: Too much braking going down a hill causes the brakes to heat up. When they get too hot, they stop working.
Also why you use engine braking too...
@@PSNragglefraggle1 It's a bit different with diesel engines.
@@PSNragglefraggle1 Unfortunately, European trucks have terrible jake brakes...
Damn ceramic brakes!
Yes, I believe what happens is the brake fluid starts to boil from the hot brake pads, and this makes the fluid compressible, so it can't apply brake force. We need brake fluid with higher boiling points.
the best is the crane at the end : ) brilliant idea ...
I remember learning about these when I was getting my CDL ♥
Thank you CZcams algorithm, I would never search for this but couldn’t help but watch...
But I bet you don't go off now looking for a similar video :P
Hell I just watched it twice
@@Martin944turbo definitely gotta have them, truck brakes rely on air and when that goes there's no stopping them. One saved my dad once
We are many..... your comment is gold
I like your profile pic
I was thinking at first 'how do they remove them?', then I saw it. Genius.
That isn't how they usually remove them. In the US it's probably going to cost you $4k for them to remove you if you crash into one. The system here is pretty darned fancy. I was impressed when I saw it.
Depending on how often it happens they could just rent a crane and it might be cheaper than having to build and maintain a crane on site...
But where did the gantry crane come from? Must be a permanent installation by the look of the film.
@@dieselfan7406 it is, the rail must be installed along with the ramp
@@dieselfan7406 It is permanent. In the second video you can see the crane far back in the end of the ramp (yellow)
any time I've driven in Colorado, I've seen these lanes. Nice to see how effective they are.
SOOOO COOL!!!!
Aww....that truck at the end looked so sad 😂
I didn't even know this was even a thing until today
Its not ...this tells you something else is going on.
@JohnathanK Doe Honestly though, if I would never have been on holidays to Germany as a Dutch person I probably would not have known about them now either....Also, the big warning installations that prepared someone who might need them didn't really give me any type of clue as a child, but my dad explained the use (and interestingly enough, on our way back we saw a truck having just used one of them and he was like "LOOK!!! LOOK!!! To your right you can see why they built that!" and there indeed was a truck with smoke bellowing from the wheelsets burried deep into the sand, something that, next to my dad explaining how to not use your brakes continuously was something that stuck so well with me even though I was unable to drive a car for the next 14 years or so :P ).
These things might be useful for cars as well, but mainly were designed with trucks in mind due to the difference in the braking systems.
@@user-vd3if4wq6m Sleep sleeeeep
@JohnathanK Doe Try to imagine the country where I live (The Netherlands), it is among the flattest you can think of and we do not have actual mountains, so the risk of a truck driver failing to use his brakes properly is practically non-existent....
The only part that is not flat is the province of Limburg, and still then, it's mainly the south part of that province that has hills (not exactly what I'd call mountains compared to what I've seen in Germany)
@JohnathanK Doe Lol 😂
Imagine having your brakes go out immediately after driving past one of those
Could just turn around and come back for another go at it😂
I would take several breaks after finding out my brakes didn't work.
Haha haha these comments are so funny hahahahahahaha so very funny
Ahem, “brakes”
@@howardosborne8647 no u couldnt
Brilliant. My family is from WVA. These are all over in the mountain areas.
In Germany, there is something we call "TÜV" which is a kind of control center where all vehicles are obligated to get checked by professionals at regular intervals to prevent braking problems during drive and other horrilble issues. But however: great and very important idea and traffic device for countries who dont have "TÜV"
You think vehicle inspection is exclusive only to Germany?
ANY truck will run its brakes hot with a stupid driver, TUV or not.
Also, TUV sucks lol, hate Germany a little for imposing the standard (in some way, shape or form) on everyone around them, no problem for you guys to mod your cars but nobody else has TUV centers to approve of their modifications.
For instance, your TUV standards means normal non-TUV rated racing coilovers cant be fitted to street cars unless inspected at a TUV center, again, no problem for you guys.
Big problem if you live 2000km away LOL
0:43 that's the saddest truck i've ever seen
Lmao
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Thomas Tank Engine/Friends faces.
He looks so disappointed
Here he is named sponje-bob kkkkkkk
Ironically, his brakes are fine. He simply takes the wrong exit.
whilst on his phone
This is build on purpos. They are not fine thats why they do this
this comment section is way yoo nerdy to get jokes
yeah you're right, the whole video is a mistake, delete the video author, there's one smart guy who has a BIG sense of humor and why not a BIG brain , ironically
@@chrism8516 the guy who wrote the comment has no brain bro, he is not able to comprehend simple things :) but fuck him, he's not important at all
Had no idea these were a thing, super cool
I’ve never seen these in action but geez they’re effective
Kudos to the drivers, and kudos to the people who thought up that means to stop a runaway truck.
And withdrawal of cudos from the people inventing trucks without a proper backup system for the main brakes...
perhaps being a professional driver they should not need it
@@camaxide It's called a Jake Brake (often made illegal in various municipalities because noise). Another is Downshifting - oops, we got rid of all the manual transmissions (which are more efficient) for auto's. There also really isn't any more room for a system that, one a per million mile basis, just about never gets used.
@@hahahano2796 I've driven Freightliner automatics. Those had both a manual mode and an engine brake. I'd still prefer a manual in mountainous terrain though.
shame on the country's government for allowing vehicles to go unchecked that they have to have these ramps
I bet you never find a runaway truck brake lane when you need one.
Innit 🙄
I know a road with many sections which go very steep uphill and downhill for a long time each. There are many warning signs about the steepness. It's the only road I've driven on with such a ramp, but it only has one and I think it needs more. The road is long and if an emergency happens it might as well be long before or somewhere after the ramp.
These are generally only on roads that are steep enough, long enough and lacking a safe place to otherwise ditch the truck. So, chances are pretty good that if you legitimately need one, there will be one. In most other situations, you can downshift enough to engine break,
if you can't you learn to start using guardrails and barricades to help slow you down.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade its B R A K E and you are not a truck driver. You can not down shift once you are in runaway mode you will never get it in a lower gear. the Transmission in the trucks do not work that way. and IF you did get it into a gear you will Lock your rear axles and throw yourself into a runaway jackknife and well you just as well kiss your butt good bye.
I love the music you put on.
Never seen something like this before, but it looks like an effective and safe idea 🐼
I saw this on the Brazilian news. The drives were emotional, as this system has saved so many lives. Trucks with failing brakes are more common here than you might imagine !
Had a young driver come up one day and ask me was I having trailer issues as I was getting from underneath it. I told him 'no, just adjusting the brakes.' He said I didn't need to do that since the trailer had automatic slack adjusters. I told him I like to stop and the trailer didn't have automatic slack adjusters. Even the ones with automatic slack adjusters have to be adjusted once in a while. In 1991 when I obtained my Commercial Drivers License you needed a 9/16 wrench to adjust slack adjusters. Then it was a 7/16 wrench before they came out with automatics. When using the 9/16 you crank them all the way down and back off a 1/4 turn. With the 7/16 you back off between a 1/4 and a 1/2 turn.
@@donotneed2250 man i feel old reading that, double spaces after punctuation hasnt been a standard since type writers
@@dr.chimpanz.1324, I learned how to type in high school. I typed 45 words per minute on a manual typewriter. On an electric typewriter about 60 words per minute. Learning how to type has come in handy more ways than you can realize especially when I was on active duty. Tradition should NOT be looked down upon. Just maybe you should learn proper correspondence. Doing so can help you in more ways than you think. I'm guessing you've never written a resume or business letter in your young life. How about a report?
@@donotneed2250 dude, i taught myself to type, 60 ish wpm,
@@donotneed2250 i was just talking about the double space after a period, its not used anymore really
For the people wondering why this kind of thing is needed:
Especially if it's a steep downgrade, trucks' brakes can fail. Remember, these guys aren't driving Honda accords. These things are huge, hauling 20k pounds of freight or even more. Braking creates heat. Going down a hill, you can step on your brakes too much and they get extremely hot, and heat damages brakes. After a while, because of the heat, weight, momentum, steepness of the hill, friction, etc... all those factors add up, and the trucks' brakes aren't worth a damn anymore. Step on the brake pedal, the brake shoe presses on the brake drum, but it has no chance of stopping anymore. That's when ramps like this can literally save lives.
Edit: please read the comment thread. Chances are someone has already asked and answered a question you may want to ask.
You forgot the more important key point. Truck brakes are pneumatic, with hydraulic assist. If the hydraulic portion fails, it’s like operating a pre 1960’s truck. You need heavy boots and strong legs to push the pedal. If the pneumatic fails, the brakes come on automatically. The ONLY time the brakes completely fail is from the incorrect use you clearly described. Constant use of the brakes resulting in pad destroying heat. Also using brakes instead of correct gear and engine/exhaust brake.
Thanks
Can't they use their engines to slow down ? With shifting gears down?
@@kubelajs6587 absolutely, yes. You should be in a lower gear when going down the hill. And if the truck is equipped with an engine brake, even better. The problem sometimes is that drivers either forget to downshift, or misjudge the steepness of the hill and don't downshift enough BEFORE starting the downgrade. Then they try to downshift while already going downhill. That can be extremely dangerous, and they could get stuck in neutral. There's all kinds of factors that drivers need to plan ahead for.
@@flyinpigmusic331 Thank you for explaining
Having a gantry there is pretty awesome. Very Well thought out.
In Australia, we have these at regular intervals, in the hills. I've never seen anyone use one, though. I haven't seen that crane system either. I don't think they recover vehicles in that manner in Australia.
It is located in BR-376, from Curitiba to Guaratuba in Paraná, Brazil.
Almost 200 lives were saved due to this safety track.
Its a very hilly and swiggly road on a mountain range in Brazil. Its very hard even on the best brakes. If u want to know exact location search on google maps: Área de escape BR376 / KM667 - Arteris Litoral Sul
@@iarmycombo5659 I know, I ride on this road almost every weekend. It has a good asphalt but still very dangerous.
@@renanalbach people need to start using engine braking more often…
@@user-njyzcip it’s a very slopping road, even with engine braking, trucks have a hard time going downhill.
This stretch of road connects the cities of Curitiba to Garuva, in Santa Catarina. If you continue driving you will access the BR-101 towards the south of the country. For Guaratuba you will access the SC-417 and then PR-412.
I will write again...who else got this video in their recommended out of nowhere.
Like 9.3 million other people
Kono
Everyone got this video for no reason let’s be honest
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Just random too.
This has solve the mystery of life for me, ty.
This is the first time I see this in action. Very interesting!
I didn’t know they had those stopping pits on them! Or the lift system. Excellent ideas.
same here
this is here, on Brasil! its a law every declive road need to have these stopping pits
@@mecobrabo5590 Aonde é? Nunca vi uma dessas
@@Skank_Hunt_42_ There are times that brakes can fail but you don't know about it . I had my breaks in my jeep fail because I got stuck during a off road trip and unknown to me when getting pulled out there was some strange stress that pulled on the break line strangely. this put a unseen stress crack in the hardline. So each time I stepped on the break this made the hardline flex and it eventually failed on my way home when trying to stop. I was able to use my emergency break to slow down and stop but you never know when something can happen. Yes inspections do help but they may not catch ever thing so it is always good to have emergency options for the unexpected. Also in heavy traffic you can get break fading on big trucks because that can happen even on a well maintained trucks so these are good to have. I just to say that unexpected failure shouldn't be even possible is silly. road engineers are aware that it is possible so for them not to prepare for it would be negligent.
@@Skank_Hunt_42_ nothing is perfect... things break all the time... so its weird you think they shouldn't.
Now that’s a truck ramp you can count on , unlike the US version of metal wires and beheading.
ill give you a pass cuz you're probably just stupid or uneducated. those are runaway truck traps and are built in places where a traditional ramp isnt possible. not everywhere has an upward slope or enough runway for gravel/sand to be used.
@@JuicerNation in my country they build the ramp with upward curved ramp made from concrete and sandbags at the end. Basically they be hoping the truck will slow down enough that it won't be dangerous when it hit the sandbag. P.s it doesn't work
@@JuicerNation How dare you!
@@JuicerNation Oh look another youtube expert! Whered ya get your engineering qualification from?
Those ones work by deterrence!
This is brilliant
I remember seeing one of those when I was a kid traveling on Green Tree Hill in Pittsburgh.
I am actually quiet surprised that these runoffs exist especially for this
why are you surprised?
@@tc1817 because your car suppose to have a break and tested before it become a mobile hazzard
@@rheuevr 1) You aren't Kevin. 2) The trucks brakes do get tested but when they drive in hilly areas they are used constantly and can eventually fail.
You are a moron
@@tc1817 You're a moron for having to ask why someone would be surprised. Why else would he be surprised? Take an educated guess instead of being unreasonably rude.
@@inexternalrecords everyone here is a moron but me.
That lane is in Brazil, in the state of Paraná. In the first year that escape route was used more than 90 times.
Tells you something about the driver skill and truck mechanics.
@Th Ro The trucks we see are from european companies. I'm sure their breaks fail in Europe too.
@@leonardomachado9466 Well, the trucks in Brasil drive what might as well be the whole of Western Europe sometimes on awful roads, at low pay, low maintenance, few stops and steep roads. Europeans simply don't realize how Brasil's geography and road network are messy, much less how they directly contribute to the way our economy works to serve them, the US and China, all while pontificating about how we should do stuff.
@@leonardomachado9466 you do realize they only ship the cargo from Europe, not the whole truck? In (most parts of) Europe, laws and rules regarding truck maintenance to prevent this from happening even on roads across the Alps. In some of the steepest sections there you can find these lanes as well, but they’re not particularly needed a lot
@@jutelify lol who told him europeans drive trucks in brazil.?
Pretty cool that we have these!
they should have a clean underpants vending machine next to the off ramp, that would make a fortune.
underpants + regular pants
truckers have extra clothes with them....
...and a liquor store!
And vending machine for selling those dirty underpants like they have in Japan.
Though... nobody would buy it from dudes I guess, lol.
😂😂
What’s really weird is this happens so often they needed to design their roadways with this in mind.
It's a pretty common thing on steep descents as a precaution, what's more worrying is they have cranes specifically for it which I assume means they use it a lot. At a certain point you'd think they'd have to consider redesigning the actual road
It most probably isn't often, but when you got hundreds of thousands of trucks, something is going to go wrong eventually, it's only a matter of when. And redesigning the road is not always possible of even economically feasible. When there is a descent, there is a chance that there will be runaway trucks.
They even have a crane 0:37
@@lloydgietzmann6596 not always easy to do. We have nearby a major regional hub where trucks up to 100 tonnes or so come down a 5km 10-15% grade. To avoid that you'd have to spend billions making it snake all over the countryside, or have trucks do an extra 100km to go around the other way that's less steep.
Or a few million to make arrestors for the occasional one that fails. I'm not a regular on that road, but I have seen them used a couple times. Better than having nowhere to go but up the rear of another truck or a bunch of cars that would do zero to slow it down.
The problem is momentum. When a car loses brakes it can coast or barrier grind its speed down easily. A truck on even a slight decline is going to pick up speed and cause terrible damage to whatever it hits. They also manoeuvre terribly and spill across all lanes when crashing rather than fitting their wreckage neatly into one hard shoulder. So where a car with no brakes is a low risk to others, can shed speed, can stop easily, and will cause minimal lane closure, a lorry with no brakes is a huge risk, may accumulate speed, cannot shed speed safely and will likely close all 3/4 lanes if it loses control.
That first one was just a good solid PLOP!
Lots of life are saved by that setup...
Now this is something that us citizens would be proud of to pay for the taxes.
Actualy we pay for that, like everytime you go on this hallway you have to pay, but its totaly worthy
dont know the especific english word but in portuguese its "pedágio"
Wouldn’t work in cold places tho
@@victorvictor7308 he is saying it is something The US would actually want to pay taxes for if we had this in our country (US)
Thats Higway in brazil
Why need this in the first place? Why don’t you have regular state vehicle inspections? Just like in EU? This is unacceptable here!
I'm a truck driver and have seen similar ramps to that on various mountain highways. But none were as advanced as these though. Honestly having the crane there to hoist it out rather then just expecting the wrecker to do all the work is a brilliant addition. And the service lanes to deposit the truck once it's out.
Dang. It sounds like this kind of thing is hard to avoid from an engineering and driving perspective. I guess I don’t see these emergency exits where I live because there are no steep hills/ mountains that cause the brakes to heat up so much that they fail. Obvious statement for truckers I’m sure lol
This is in Brazil, BR 116 Régis Bittencourt
@@guho8076 No, it's not Regis Bittencourt. It's BR-376 between Curitiba and Joinville(The infamous Serra de Guaratuba). czcams.com/video/-xYEQoTBusw/video.html
I think that having a highway with a proper grade would be a better solution. These ramps are a good solution for a highway that wasn't supposed to be major corridor for trucks,
@@DrivinginBrazil I don't think you understand the purpose of those ramps. They are set so out of control trucks on mountain highways can stop if their breaks fail. It's filled with sand to defuse the momentum of all that weight. A rail would just be something a truck would crash into or through. It's safer for everyone to have those ramps.
These guys design a very brilliant Setup.
Pretty. Damn. Effective. The crane at the end is helpful no doubt...
0:37 the tow truck: "So I assure you that no truck will lose break as long as I'm here"
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That's good point
Lol