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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redtag" data-source="post: 5116191" data-attributes="member: 70933">Driving a semi down the Rockies is nothing like anything you have done in a 4 wheeler or package car.  1.  If your freewheeling down a mountain your going to go from 40-85 QUICK 2.  If you lose the brakes and then loose the gear in a standard truck your going to have a hell of a time trying to get back into gear.  These non synchro class 8 truck transmissions are nothing like a standard in a car or light truck. The driver should have taken the runaway truck ramp,  that was his fault and he has to live with that,  85 in a 45 was not his fault he had no way to slow that down other than the truck ramp or maybe try to grind the gaurdrail or something.</blockquote>