I started this thread because the Ford vs Dodge started to wander a bit.
The subject of keeping control on steep grades and the use of jakes is good. But the getting to the point of having to use an escape ramp is
totally the last resort. A few months after the new highway was opened on the Lewiston Id grade a driver for Reyerson steel got into
trouble and used the ramp 2/3 the way down. It had rained, snowed, rained, froze repeatedly. When the truck hit the ramp it didn't sink in the
pea gravel. He shot off the end some 50ft plus in the air. The load load of steel was impaled standing straight up through what was left of
the cab. Some say you can still hear him screaming on that part of the road. DOT failed to keep the the ramp tilled. The Lewiston grade
is the only one I've seen with the last escape ramp being in town.
The escape ramps dropping into Jackson Hole are on the opposite side of the road, you have to cross the uphill traffic to get to them.
If I remember right that grade is 10% for four plus miles.
The subject of keeping control on steep grades and the use of jakes is good. But the getting to the point of having to use an escape ramp is
totally the last resort. A few months after the new highway was opened on the Lewiston Id grade a driver for Reyerson steel got into
trouble and used the ramp 2/3 the way down. It had rained, snowed, rained, froze repeatedly. When the truck hit the ramp it didn't sink in the
pea gravel. He shot off the end some 50ft plus in the air. The load load of steel was impaled standing straight up through what was left of
the cab. Some say you can still hear him screaming on that part of the road. DOT failed to keep the the ramp tilled. The Lewiston grade
is the only one I've seen with the last escape ramp being in town.
The escape ramps dropping into Jackson Hole are on the opposite side of the road, you have to cross the uphill traffic to get to them.
If I remember right that grade is 10% for four plus miles.
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