Is your name Lucky?

[Volron]

Because you would HAVE to change your name to it after something like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJk69FlG9w0

[ridley1]

Unbelievable the guy walked away from that.....or was it just adrenaline?

[Wiley]

Unbelievable the guy walked away from that.....or was it just adrenaline?

Didn't look to be maimed in any way.  Internal damage would be about the only thing you'd have to worry about, but it didn't look to me like the collisions slowed the semi that quickly.

Horrible to watch though.

Wiley.

[SEraider]

Didn't look to be maimed in any way.  Internal damage would be about the only thing you'd have to worry about, but it didn't look to me like the collisions slowed the semi that quickly.

Horrible to watch though.

Wiley.

I'd say........

[guncrasher]

depends on who you call lucky.  two died and 9 were seriously injured.


semp

[ozrocker]

Anyone who's a Driver and has driven to North Cali knows
how treacherous Donner Pass can be here in the states.
I'd be over-revving 3rd gear the whole way down the Mountain.
I'd see other trucks going by at 60 and guys on CB saying
how stupid those guys were.
There would be numerous trucks pulled over at the bottom
with rear brakes burning.
A whole other story when it's snowing. Scary, white knuckle ride


                                                                                                                                    Oz

[Volron]

Didn't look to be maimed in any way.  Internal damage would be about the only thing you'd have to worry about, but it didn't look to me like the collisions slowed the semi that quickly.

Horrible to watch though.

Wiley.

It didn't.  Even hitting the guardrail and a loaded produce truck, after hitting 2 small vehicles, the truck was still moving at a good pace.  It is to my understanding that Russian trucks are usually overloaded,  though I could be wrong.  And you be surprised what you can walk away from.  Having been in a roll over with only but my hair messed up, yeah.

depends on who you call lucky.  two died and 9 were seriously injured.


semp

I think it obvious who I was talking about.  Regardless of what happened, he really was lucky.  And it's not like he had intent to kill those 2 and injure the other 9.

[ridley1]

Anyone who's a Driver and has driven to North Cali knows
how treacherous Donner Pass can be here in the states.
I'd be over-revving 3rd gear the whole way down the Mountain.
I'd see other trucks going by at 60 and guys on CB saying
how stupid those guys were.
There would be numerous trucks pulled over at the bottom
with rear brakes burning.
A whole other story when it's snowing. Scary, white knuckle ride


                                                                                                                                    Oz

Donner pass in winter....another reason the sooner the San Andreas fault let's go and slides that state into the ocean the better off we'll all be.
Last time I went through there I got pulled over by CHP because my trailer axle was 6" out. Then I get into the scale after and I'm over weight on the axles.
So, dude in the scale has me slide the axle back to exactly the same spot for which I got a ticket, and sends me on my way saying I was fine.
"What about this correctable fault ticket the other officer gave me?" I ask
He says, "just do what it says on the back....it's only a minor fine"

Of course.....he never told me that he had to sign off on the fault being corrected.

But anywho....the penny pinchers that spec out trucks for fleets don't understand that the bigger displacements give you much better engine braking. Get into the right gear and a 15 litre Cat will hold your descent.....a 13 litre Cat....well.....welcome to the world of smoking brakes