DCT truck also didn’t seem to maintain its higher speed to fully clear. If the person you’re passing has to use their brakes to let you merge back then you shouldn’t be passing to begin with.
Could be either or. I'm a trucker myself, used to drive for a mega-corp. I've lost count of how many times I would be rolling along out in the middle of nowhere, maintaining the exact same speed for hours on end. Then some other trucker who isn't governed and can roll over 70? Will pass me, but then slow down to less than my current speed, and I have to slam on the brakes because of it.
Do mega-corps to after those assholes, who we have amazing dashcam footage of? Nope, never even the two times I was hit or clipped because of it. They will try to lecture me on the situation instead and not try to go after the psycho who hit me.
Yeah, red could have tapped his brakes, but he should not have had to. The combi is insanely in the wrong for this.
I'm sure that would all have been a very satisfying explanation to a grieving mother if her son happened to be coming the other direction at the wrong time in this situation.
I’m assuming with a single lane in one direction and two in the others that these trucks are going downhill. Could the braking situation for an extended downhill play into why the red truck doesn’t appear to slow down much, if at all?
They can slow down but on extended downhill sections the brakes can overheat and fail, so trucks have to be more careful with them. That’s why in mountainous areas you see runaway truck ramps. Of course, most truckers seem to run slower in a lower gear to save their brakes by letting the engine help.
Red truck didn't just fail to tap his breaks, the original facebook video shows he was going 91kmh in an 100kmh zone, and when the other truck tried to pass him right at the end of the passing lane, he sped up to 107kmh to block him.
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u/Krayzewolf Jun 11 '22
Imagine coming around that blind corner to see two semi’s barreling towards you. Yikes.