TOP a steep, truck-clogged grade in California’s Sierra Nevada moun tains, the Southern Pacific Railroad recently erected a sign: “Take the trucks off the highway. Put the trucks on piggyback ...

The first portion of the study involved field testing, where FERIC installed instrumentation on a coastal off-highway truck – a Pacific P-16. The instrumentation was in place for three months and ...

Along the steep grade are two large turns where trucks have crashed following brake failures. A trucker that crashed recently while descending into Ponca had been hauling 40,000 pounds in juice ...

Truck driver Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, now 26, has said his brakes failed on the downhill grade on I-70 eastbound that day in April 2019. He crashed into 24 cars and four trucks that were ...

One of my first trips down a serious mountain grade came in 1982 on the I-80 hill just east of Salt Lake City. It was a warm-up for the Donner Pass, which I would tackle the following day.

Roberts agreed with Faminoff that when drivers ascend a steep grade, ... We then discuss the video and I state to them to be in the right gear BEFORE starting down the grade. If the sign says 40 KPH ...

After years of record production, heavy truck manufacturers are bracing for a downhill curve in 1996. Though the order backlogs remain well above 200,000 units, enough to provide a record year of p… ...

Recently a semi-truck driver found that Old Stage Coach Road was built for — let’s everyone say it together now — stage coaches. GPS maps are lousy historians and sometimes bad trip advisors ...

A tractor-trailer rig hauling heavy equipment caught fire on Sunday as it came down a steep grade in Death ... advertisement. KLAS Las Vegas. Truck fire marks 8th of 2024 on steep Death Valley road.

This video from @HinrichsZane shows a Tesla absolutely smoking diesel trucks left and right, well, mostly left, as it climbs the steep grades of Donner Pass in California. Hinrichs Zane via Twitter ...