Nagasama
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part of my business is trucking and that right there my friends is called inexperience and (obviously) unsafe speed. you would be AMAZED at the lack of skills of some of the CDL drivers on the roads. or maybe TERRIFIED would be a better word. i dont know about the load but what it really looks like to me is that he didnt gear down properly and hit that downgrade and turn going about 30MPH too fast. when you are in the mountains/steep hills you have to be very careful about your gears. if you try to control the truck speed on grades like that with your brakes, guess what? they get extremely hot and become utterly USELESS. and then you have a BIG BIG problem. you have to use the gears. thats part of the reason most have 9-18 gears. thanks be to God that i have never had anything like this happen to any of my guys. well, we dont employ rookies either...but it can happen to the best driver. it seems that the older they get, lots of times the more careless they get.