Thursday, July 15, 2021

Pretty Impressive, That

Testing a runaway-truck arrestor:

4 comments:

  1. That's a little more elaborate than the Laurel Hill escape ramp. It's on one of the steepest sections of US Hwy 26 descending from Mt. Hood with a sharp right-hand curve at the bottom. That road used to be part of the Barlow Road/Oregon Trail and was considered the most dangerous part of the entire Trail.

    I like the containment features that WYDOT put in on the Teton ramp. Our Oregon ramp is just a long, deep stretch of loose gravel going uphill.

    Was the steel clanking sound coming from the test driver?

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  2. What's wrong with a loose gravel pit for runaway trucks? All I see here is stuff that could fail and gravel is always there. Go with what is proven to work.
    w3ski

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  3. w3ski, the gravel pit arrestors are somewhat dangerous. Drivers have been killed using them.

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