Spun motor home on I5

Here, I have a tape measre. You guys can go in the stall over there and settle this.

Is your tape English or metric?

If you scale the distance from a satellite perspective, it may show a few centimeters.

Not when you are actually sitting in this rattlesnake country where you don't want to get lost.

You might find this slithery critters making a home in your furnace plenum.

They like warm places you know.

fulltimedaniel wrote:

happycamper002 wrote:

fulltimedaniel wrote:
Most often it is the drivers natural response to want to hit the brakes. And this is what causes those spins. The uneven braking and traction on one side coupled with the movement (if any ) of a tread separation or blowout...leads with the wrong response to a spin.

Stay Off the brakes. give ;yourself a chance to slow down a bit then apply very light pressure to the brakes.

In some cases it might be that you actually have to SPEED up a little to offset the movement cause by the blowout, once straight come off the accelerator and slow down then begin braking lightly.

Much of this is simply driver error or inexperience with large vehicles. (and sometimes small ones)

Well, the scenario would certainly work but the problem is: not all situations are the same.

The Grapevine is a treacherous stretch north of LA. especially in bad weather.

The situation may and does change. What doesnt change is the physics of braking, force and motion. What I wrote is good advice for any situation or weather or road.

I grew up nearly at the foot of the Grapevine in San Bernardino where I accompanied my father over the original road in 1960's era tractor trailers. I have driven it many times in my life. The freeway version is nothing compared to what it used to be. And none of that changes the correct procedure for dealing with an emergency like described by the OP.

Gads!

"Robertaloto" - should have offered this sage advice as a brief lecture to the driver of the Motor Home.

For all you know the MH driver may have "done" the Grapevine more times than you - and was wondering why you didn't expound on driving skills when you were neighbors in San Berdoo!


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"Robertaloto" - should have offered this sage advice as a brief lecture to the driver of the Motor Home

Huh? Not sure what you mean. I just reported. No advise offered.....

Sometimes when reading the responses to my posts it makes me wonder if the rates of Alzheimer's, dementia, reading disabilities and ADHD are much higher than we think in the general population.

That's a horrible comment to make.

In all sense of the word it is abusive. this kind of argument is often called called "argument directed to the man." What makes this more disgusting is when you mention people with disabilities.

If you can't disprove the truth of what is being asserted, how about keeping people with disabilities out of your lack of empathy, boorish and uncivilized comments.

slickest1 wrote:
It would be interesting to know what a lot of these posters will do when it happens to them. It is easy to armchair dissect other peoples accidents.
That said a lot of people are not qualified to drive these big rigs.

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IMO it's fair to say that you will never read about those of us who drive with a constant spring-loaded mentality of what to do in the event of a sudden complete failure of a front tire. Speaking for myself, I take the driving of my big rig seriously. Instantly tightening up on the steering wheel while steering as needed is no big deal for me (as the FIRST step in event of a front-tire blowout).

As I pointed to earlier in this thread: No matter what the involved drivers' ages are, the involved drivers' skills are, the involved drivers' familiarities with the routes are, how well maintained the involved drivers' vehicles are, what the weather and road conditions are, what the involved drivers' health/physical/mental conditions or lack there-of are, and what amount of onboard high tech safety gizmos on each involved vehicle there are ... there are no substitutes for driving at, or slower than, the speed limits and driving with plenty of spacing between each vehicle.

Ignoring these two factors is happening all the time and everywhere - including among RV'ers who, along with truck drivers - should know better. Barring a meteorite, a lightening bolt, an earthquake, a landslide, or a tree falling ... the laws of speed physics and spacing physics cannot be gotten around by drivers. I'll bet that even the first vehicular accident in the U.S. could have been prevented by even slower speeds or even greater spacing. ;)

slickest1 wrote:
It would be interesting to know what a lot of these posters will do when it happens to them. It is easy to armchair dissect other peoples accidents.

I know I would be challenged in such instances.

I've watched a lot of Youtube dash cam videos and bad highway traffic problems seem to unfold in seconds.

It does not matter how prepared you think you are it will still surprise you. In my driving days I had several front blow outs and no 2 were the same. Only one wanted to take me off the road. I had just pulled a long hill and was starting down the other side and it blew on a sharp corner that was banked toward the other side of the road. Luckily I was not going fast and got it stopped. That tire was 2 weeks old. I always ran good tires at proper pressures and checked them several times a day.