was this one of you guys??

marcsbigfoot20b27 wrote:
According to the DOT standards, every line is 10 ft long with a 30 ft space......so beginning of one white line to the next is 40 ft.

I counted 20 lines at the semi hood in 9.8 sec.
That is 20x40=800 feet in 9.8 sec.
60 sec / 9.8 = 6.1
6.1 x 800 = 4880 ft per min or almost exactly 55 mph.

I don't even think the F250 was even going 65, maybe 63 mph.

It appears to be a long bed (can't tell) and is shorter than a crew cab (extra cab).
Looks like setup and weight distribution.
Btw my math may not be totally correct....disclaimer before someone rips me a new one for being 2mph off.

I had to go to the Pocatello Airport this evening. I travel on I15 and I86 to get there. I measured the lane markers by counting how many there were between mile markers.

I counted 107 on I15 and I86. Thus the spacing here in Southern Idaho on the Interstates is about 50 feet.

For the Semi I counted 30 markers in 14.63 seconds which gives me a speed of 69.9 mph.

For the truck and trailer I counted 16 marker in 6.94 seconds which gives a speed of about 78 mph.

chr$ wrote:
They all look at my 25 foot TT and my "little" sport trac and ask "you can tow that with that?"

I really wanted a Sport Trac back in the day, but I already had the Avalanche, so I couldn't justify it...

They all look at my 25 foot TT and my "little" sport trac and ask "you can tow that with that?"

Doug33 wrote:

danimal53 wrote:

Doug33 wrote:
Wow - I've never actually seen this type of incident captured on video before. It's downright scary. I can't remember passing a tractor trailer very often, unless it was on a steep hill with a passing lane. They are usually passing me, because I keep the speed around 62 MPH.

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i feel like they are always passing me (sometimes with a look of "look at that little SUV with that little trailer hehehe"). i prefer to just get in the right lane, set the cruise control and enjoy some tunes, no need for anything even potentially risky.

Most of the 18-wheelers have a 53' trailer, and then the truck itself is probably about 20' long, for a total of 73'. My TT is almost 32' and my truck is 19' long, for a total length of 51'. And my total rig is about 12,000 pounds loaded. So while the tractor trailers are longer and heavier, I don't exactly feel "little" when driving the highways with them. ;)

was actually being specific to my setup...17' TT and about 15' TV. weight is less than half of yours...like i said, little :)

danimal53 wrote:

Doug33 wrote:
Wow - I've never actually seen this type of incident captured on video before. It's downright scary. I can't remember passing a tractor trailer very often, unless it was on a steep hill with a passing lane. They are usually passing me, because I keep the speed around 62 MPH.

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i feel like they are always passing me (sometimes with a look of "look at that little SUV with that little trailer hehehe"). i prefer to just get in the right lane, set the cruise control and enjoy some tunes, no need for anything even potentially risky.

Most of the 18-wheelers have a 53' trailer, and then the truck itself is probably about 20' long, for a total of 73'. My TT is almost 32' and my truck is 19' long, for a total length of 51'. And my total rig is about 12,000 pounds loaded. So while the tractor trailers are longer and heavier, I don't exactly feel "little" when driving the highways with them. ;)

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
33 to 40 guaranteed that guy was a race car driver.

You don't learn that move anywhere but a race track! When a car is coming at you at 70 MPH you learn to get off of the track quickly!

Tongue weight, tongue weight, tongue weight people!! Lets keep it safe out there!

I was also impressed with how fast he got off the road.
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Many,many moons ago while we were just dating, we went on an outing with another couple to Catalina island. It was about a 100 mile drive to Dana Point and then a 37 mile boat trip. The trip to the island worked well, trip back was bad ,very bad.
We left to late, it got dark and my friend decided compass was wrong and he started heading to far north. While on the way back south we stopped to try to get our bearings as there was a lot of discussion about which way to go.He was putting it in and out of reverse to hold our position and the transmission broke. we were dead in the water, lost and in the dark and being pushed towards shore. We were going to be surfing.
we were able to raise someone with the CB and he went to the pier we could see and he could see us blink our lights. He called the Harbor patrol and my wife's parents. She was going to be late getting home. The harbor patrol towed us into Newport harbor and the sheriffs drove my friend down to get his truck and trailer about 30 miles further south.
Loretta was chosen to drive as she was the most alert. On the freeway the 25ft boat begin wagging the dog. It was a half ton and the trailer had no brakes and the freeway made a sweeping turn and the boat was doing it's best to keep us going straight. My friend started yelling at her to hit the brakes and she used the gas petal. The swaying stopped and she slowed down after the turn in the road. It almost was the final glitch in a bad trip.
She was used to pulling her horse trailer and had listened to all the advise on "what if's" and she did the right thing.

Doug33 wrote:
Wow - I've never actually seen this type of incident captured on video before. It's downright scary. I can't remember passing a tractor trailer very often, unless it was on a steep hill with a passing lane. They are usually passing me, because I keep the speed around 62 MPH.

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i feel like they are always passing me (sometimes with a look of "look at that little SUV with that little trailer hehehe"). i prefer to just get in the right lane, set the cruise control and enjoy some tunes, no need for anything even potentially risky.

Wow - I've never actually seen this type of incident captured on video before. It's downright scary. I can't remember passing a tractor trailer very often, unless it was on a steep hill with a passing lane. They are usually passing me, because I keep the speed around 62 MPH.

Tequila wrote:
Well I had something similar happen to me, with a better result. I fell asleep and the rumble strips woke me. As you can see from the video below the truck swayed quite a bit. I did have both Torklift stable loads and a superhitch & supertruss. I figure both probably helped. I did not have time to think about manually applying the trailer brakes as I had only just woken up.

This highway was in Nevada, BTW.

Asleep

Scary stuff.

The pickup driver said "Hold my beer and watch this!" ?