Popular Post dinneR ★ Posted July 19, 2021 Popular Post Share #1 Posted July 19, 2021 It worked. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted July 19, 2021 Share #2 Posted July 19, 2021 Around here there's a place on the Mass Pike where there is a gravel trap graded slightly uphill on one long downhill run in western Mass. I've never had the opportunity to see it in action. I imagine it's a relief for the driver when the noise finally stops. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 19, 2021 Share #3 Posted July 19, 2021 Teton Pass is the real deal. I can easily see why it's shutdown a lot in the winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted July 19, 2021 Share #4 Posted July 19, 2021 Rapid City has a gravel trap when you descend into town on Hwy 16. Saw an 18 wheeler embedded to its frame rails once. Could have been ugly if it had roared into town with that much speed! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 19, 2021 Share #5 Posted July 19, 2021 https://pjammcycling.com/climb/686.Teton%20Pass%20East Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted July 19, 2021 Share #6 Posted July 19, 2021 Several of them around here, they used to be used regularly, but I haven’t heard of any incidents lately But I don’t watch the news much anymore either edit. Should have watched first we have the gravel pit type, they seem to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted July 19, 2021 Share #7 Posted July 19, 2021 My home town used to regularly have runaway trucks wind up in the river. Then they put in a gravel trap and I have never seem it messed up. I wonder if I can find oot if it has ever been used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted July 20, 2021 Share #8 Posted July 20, 2021 4 hours ago, denniS said: It worked. OK. Now... Imagine pulling all those elastic restraints back to their limit... Loading up a Smart Car... And letting go! A Smart Car Slingshot! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UglyBob Posted July 20, 2021 Share #9 Posted July 20, 2021 We have the gravel traps here in AZ. They work well and save lives, but can cause some major under carriage and drivetrain damage to the trucks. That looks like it's much less likely to rip the axels out from under the truck.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted July 20, 2021 Share #10 Posted July 20, 2021 I am assuming that was a set up test of the arrester, given the camera tracking and the three people in red vests standing there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted July 20, 2021 Share #11 Posted July 20, 2021 I just watched a bunch of videos of trucks using the gravel ramps. The ones using the smooth gravel ramps looked like they came out of it pretty good. I saw one truck using the Pennsylvania type ramp with consecutive gravel piles going all the way up the ramp. That looked brutal but it did stop the truck, that driver was going to need a new truck. This looked like a smooth gravel ramp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted July 20, 2021 Share #12 Posted July 20, 2021 31 minutes ago, Longjohn said: I just watched a bunch of videos of trucks using the gravel ramps. Years ago... WoBG and I were on vacation, If I recall Colorado. We noticed the truck run away pull outs in the mountains. I figured they were there for a good reason. Then I noticed an 18 wheeler with not only smoke coming from the brakes, but they were glowing red. My first thought, that guy has never driven in the mountains before. My second thought... I don't want him behind me going downhill. It was kind of scary... I was in my Z28 Camaro and soon were were WAY ahead of that truck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc2000 Posted July 20, 2021 Share #13 Posted July 20, 2021 One year on Ride the Rockies we were going up Wolf Creek Pass, and 2 trucks from the same company were going down the Pagosa Springs side with out bothering to stop at the top to check their brakes. They didn't have any. One truck took the ramp at the hairpin turn at the bottom, the other had nowhere to go and tried the curve, flipping over onto its side. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted July 20, 2021 Share #14 Posted July 20, 2021 I am surprised that the driver can fit in the cab of that dump truck with the size of his balls. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted July 20, 2021 Share #15 Posted July 20, 2021 I've seen run away truck ramps in the U.P., or maybe northern L.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted July 20, 2021 Share #16 Posted July 20, 2021 Thanks! I've been wondering how such lanes worked. I've been on a few roads, mostly in the PA Appalachians, where there were signs for a runaway truck lane, but I had never seen how they work. I guess there are different solutions. I could see that one had a road that went uphill for a ways - it must have had those capture straps like this one at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted July 20, 2021 Share #17 Posted July 20, 2021 4 hours ago, Parr8hed said: I am surprised that the driver can fit in the cab of that dump truck with the size of his balls. That was my thought. Who in the highway department volunteers for that job. Duane with no teeth who's wife just left him? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinneR ★ Posted July 20, 2021 Author Share #18 Posted July 20, 2021 There is a gravel one on the pass as well. This arrestor was installed in 2017 or 2018 I think. It gets used a few times a year. The video is a test. The driver was a stunt driver. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted July 20, 2021 Share #19 Posted July 20, 2021 18 hours ago, Dottles said: Teton Pass is the real deal. I can easily see why it's shutdown a lot in the winter. Have you ever seen all the ramps around Lewiston, ID? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted July 20, 2021 Share #20 Posted July 20, 2021 10 hours ago, jdc2000 said: One year on Ride the Rockies we were going up Wolf Creek Pass, and 2 trucks from the same company were going down the Pagosa Springs side with out bothering to stop at the top to check their brakes. They didn't have any. One truck took the ramp at the hairpin turn at the bottom, the other had nowhere to go and tried the curve, flipping over onto its side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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12string Posted July 20, 2021 Share #22 Posted July 20, 2021 18 hours ago, Philander Seabury said: My home town used to regularly have runaway trucks wind up in the river. Then they put in a gravel trap and I have never seem it messed up. I wonder if I can find oot if it has ever been used? It's probably been used. They leave a rake in there, you're supposed to rake it flat after you get your truck out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 21, 2021 Share #23 Posted July 21, 2021 8 hours ago, sheep_herder said: Have you ever seen all the ramps around Lewiston, ID? Oh yeah. Remember the old Lewiston Grade? Classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted July 21, 2021 Share #24 Posted July 21, 2021 33 minutes ago, Dottles said: Oh yeah. Remember the old Lewiston Grade? Classic. Yes, I some times traveled that road going between eastern Oregon and eastern Washington. Loved the views around Enterprise, OR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted July 21, 2021 Share #25 Posted July 21, 2021 6 hours ago, sheep_herder said: Yes, I some times traveled that road going between eastern Oregon and eastern Washington. Loved the views around Enterprise, OR. Did they actually shut that down? Tear it up? Or did they turn it into a Scenic Hwy? I would think that would be tourism dollars if they kept it available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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