Zepp, i believe it is, has stressed practicing emergency breaking A LOT on here...and i can gladly say it payed off for me today..
The last couple of weeks I have been reading a lot of posts concerning emergency breaking. So, i decided to freshen up my skills, and start practicing every safe chance i get. WOW am i glad i did... coming down the highway today, going with the flow of traffic, doing about 55-60 (in a 55) the practicing payed off. I always try to watch as far ahead as i can, but today i could only see the truck in front of me (big lifted dodge ram) and the truck infront of it..an old beater carrying a bunch of bricks on the trailer. well i see the truck with the bricks hit a bump, and next thing i know i hear the screatching tires of the dodge ram..it swerves, and i see an un-attached trailer throwing bricks EVERYWHERE coming straight at me....I quickly glanced to the left ( i was in the right lane) and saw i had no where to go due to the corvette next to me. so basically what happend was, i slammed on the breaks.. w/out locking them up...and managed to not hit ANY bricks, or the trailer..ended up going onto the shoulder and was able to go around it at about 10 mph.....but im not gonna lie, i feel kind of lucky.
just thought i would say thanks to all yall who stress practicing your breaking!!!
The last couple of weeks I have been reading a lot of posts concerning emergency breaking. So, i decided to freshen up my skills, and start practicing every safe chance i get. WOW am i glad i did... coming down the highway today, going with the flow of traffic, doing about 55-60 (in a 55) the practicing payed off. I always try to watch as far ahead as i can, but today i could only see the truck in front of me (big lifted dodge ram) and the truck infront of it..an old beater carrying a bunch of bricks on the trailer. well i see the truck with the bricks hit a bump, and next thing i know i hear the screatching tires of the dodge ram..it swerves, and i see an un-attached trailer throwing bricks EVERYWHERE coming straight at me....I quickly glanced to the left ( i was in the right lane) and saw i had no where to go due to the corvette next to me. so basically what happend was, i slammed on the breaks.. w/out locking them up...and managed to not hit ANY bricks, or the trailer..ended up going onto the shoulder and was able to go around it at about 10 mph.....but im not gonna lie, i feel kind of lucky.
just thought i would say thanks to all yall who stress practicing your breaking!!!
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