@@brien1254 well i think its 50 50 eether or not kid had it on him when he was pushed out if not and it fell off a cliff in a runaway big rig i doudt there was much left to give back
7:39 and suddenly I imagined somebody doing a base jump, having just opened their parachute and being happy to be alive, only to be hit by a semi truck
It's a fine story. Hey, I know it's too late for this... but couldn't you just crash it into whatever is beside the road. I mean 5-10 mph? Oh well. Maybe next time.
“Eastbound and down, Overloaded and huckin,’ These balls gon’ do what they say shan’t be done, We’ve got a long way to go, And we ain’t never gon’ get there, Jump out the cab and watch ol’ Peter run!”
I lost my brakes on the grapevine with a loaded dump truck when I was 20 years old, man what a ride that was 80 MPH at a 7% grade downhill, woo mama thank the lord I am here
my dad drove trucks part time when he was a paramedic and there was this one driver that would always go full speed. this is in the middle of nowhere in Quebec so there's not many cops or ministry of transportation officers out here so some truckers would just go balls deep and go full speed all the way to their destination. the problem is that truck tires aren't exactly meant to drive on poorly maintained roads, at 80mph, hours on end and then suddenly brake. imagine your surprise when that driver had 2-4 popped tires by the time he'd show up at his destination every single time.
I still see drivers to this day smoking their brakes on the grapevine. These newer trucks have stronger engine brakes I almost never have to use the service brakes even on steep mountain backroads but you still have people smoking their brakes.
Dipshits across the country like that good old boy in the 70s and 80s helped to ruin trucking and create more than half of the bullshit laws, CHP fees, city fees, scales, high insurance rates and regulations that trucking business people like myself have to deal with. This 11 minute story could be boiled down to idiot overloads his equipment, almost kills some people and loses his bankroll paying for the damages.
It's complete BS so I can't enjoy it, but if you're ignorant of trucks or just let reality take a back seat then it's probably fun. About the time the truck hit 15MPH I couldn't take the bullshit any more so I paused it to see if anyone else had commented on the BS.
@@crazypeoplearoundtheworld304 I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. Do I think the dude who was originally driving jumped an overcapacity truck over the hill? Yes. Do I think there was damage? Yes. Could some of the damage be overstated? Maybe. I'm willing to give it a pass though because of it being secondhand. It wasn't one that happened to him and he was just repeating it.
He was intelligent, just inexperienced. I drove truck for years and even drove the ports for a few months. Wrecking balls don't weigh that much. I've been in the mountains in the winter with 80,000 pounds gross weight. That guy was only going 15mph when he was out of gear. He could have EASILY gotten into gear if he was experienced. I was out of gear going down a Utah mountain and managed to get back into gear within like 10 seconds. I don't believe the part of this story where both of his air lines came off because if your emergency air hose comes off, then your trailer brakes will lock up as a safety mechanism. His clearly didn't lock up.
@@paidtourist6563 experience isn't the problem. I've never drove a truck in my life but I know damn well what mechanical overload means. BOOM! DEATH! DESTRUCTION! You can learn that riding a bicycle, dangit! He was just on a power trip from all the money
Were air brakes different back then? As far as I know loss of air causes more braking not less for safety. That's what makes moving a broken truck so hard.
Yes the brake chambers ( air cylinder that apply s brake shoes) were single chamber meaning air had to be applied for them to work. Now they are piggy backs ,maxis, spring chambers different names same thing , that have two chambers together, one with a spring in it that applies the parking park that is released when air is added and a second that applies the service brake ( braking used in normal driving) when air is applied. I know it is are run one sentence.
Yeah I dunno about back then, the part with the air hoses blowing off doesn’t make any sense to me unless it’s just something lost in translation. They would get stuck on like Ben said above (great explanation by the way) but if he was all ready out of control the brakes would have been so hot they wouldn’t have been able to stop the truck anymore
In a situation where a truck runs away on a down grade the brakes will burn up before the truck stops, pre 1975 trailers had air cylinders so the trailer would have a park brake until the air bled off then the park brakes would release much like train cars, now day that have spring brake chambers so when the air is applied the brakes release, and when the air is released a giant spring holds it in emergency, also back then you didn’t have tractor protection valves, now when air pressure drops below 60psi buzzers go off and below 25psi it sets all your brakes automatically back then you have one or two gauges that you had to watch
most old school trailers used air to keep the park brake on, so there was no fail safe like with todays maxibrakes. so old type trailers had to be chocked when not attached to a truck. even if it did have maxi brakes the mass alone of the trailer would have faded the brakes hard.
Scraps G incorrect in March 1 1975 FMVSS passed a set of laws mandating all trailers built after that date to have spring parking brakes and tractors have to have steer axle brakes before that it was as described air held the parking brake when the air bled off the the trailer would roll and actually oil field frac tanks are still that way so they can be moved with equipment, also trains were not outfitted with air brakes until the 1910s and 1920s before that it was the chain style brake wheel on the cars. And brake men were still used well into the 1950s., now the tractor protection valve didn’t become mandatory till 2010 although if you ran out of air in the truck the brakes would apply as they all pretty much had 30/30 brake chambers
Actually, you go down in the next gear lower than you climbed the hill. I've been driving for 22 years and lived and drove the Pacific Northwest. That was the FIRST thing I learned, the hard way!!
I'm a gas tanker driver, and we had a driver crossing the mountains during winter, and in one particularly bad area, he hits ice. This was an experienced driver, and the computer shows him doing everything right to try and straighten the truck back out and stop the slide. It quickly gets away from him though, and in the darkness ahead he sees a fairly sharp turn into nothingness, so he too decided to jump. They found the truck upright in the snow, a few hundred yards off the roadway. It had hit several snow banks, which slowed it to a stop with snow up above its hood, but otherwise perfect, with no driver. About 300 yards back they found the driver. When he jumped, his feet hit the ice, and he slipped the wrong way, instead of away from the truck to safety, he slid towards the truck and under the drive tires. He got crushed by the 105,500lbs driverless tanker truck, that then went and parked itself in the snow.
Pretty epic movie, one of the first films Speilberg directed. Even today it holds its own in terms of the camera work/stunts/cinematography. And it was a made for TV movie with a pretty small budget.
I heard this story almost exactly as told in the 80s when I started trucking from Texas to the NW back and forth. Its gotta be true. It's hard enough to find a gear with a modern 18 speed, the story I was told was it was a 2 stick 5 / 4 .... its damn near impossible to get back in gear if you miss a gear in that situation.
When I started driving semi. I was told about a guy who made a lot of money driving for others. Like this story he bought a brand new truck, top of the line new aluminum flatbed. He was hauling IIRC wire coils. Very heavy but didn’t take much deck space. IIRC 3 was lite, but 4 he was overloaded. He did a trip with 3. Easy, next trip he did 4. (Overloaded but well within abilities of equipment). Then he decided to make some money. He had them load 6. Well he had issues. Brakes overheating on hills, power climbing hills. Then he had a accident. Where he couldn’t stop in time and plowed into a parked car. He did a hit & run. (Yep with a semi). His info is noted. He gets to delivery point. They pay him for 3 units. (Because that’s all it’s legal for him to haul). “If you want to go to court that you hauled twice your legal load that’s fine” Unloaded he finds his fancy aluminum deck is sprung. (Those decks are arched up empty fir strength). So $$$ damage to trailer, $$$ to his truck that he creamed a car with. Finally he is arrested, truck impounded for the hit & run. The only positive. It was not proven he was massively overloaded in his criminal case. So don’t get stupid with loads.
For those of you who haven't driven a big truck, there are no synchronizers in the transmission. If the truck is out of gear and speeding up you have to pick a higher gear and speed up the engine to match. It is completely counter intuitive to what you are trying to do which is slow down the truck. Also, The engines usually have between 350 to 500 braking horsepower when using the engine (jake) brake. Not having the truck in gear going down a hill is a major problem.
Love trucker stories. They seem so odd and fake but if you was there. They all real. My Uncle Billy was a truck driver. Navy back in Vietnam too. big loud mouth spoke his mind freely about any thing. He left us last year because of strokes and then old age hit him. Then he left us fast then. He is burred at pace fl Navy base. My Uncle Billy was a interesting cat and utlimate respect to military and truck drivers. Uncle Billy I hope you have a blast in FL with your boys and girls. I hear his voice in my head. With a year in my eye. Thank you for the lovely story.
The Bravo sierra is deep and thick. That Peterbuilt shoulda stopped in its tracks while this rendition was being told. Sorry, but regulations where pretty tight in the 70's too.
Air hoses blowing off was definatly story indulgence, cause there would be a whole lotta screeching and smoking from the tires burning up. Great story anyway.
Cool story except for one problem, losing your air lines on a tractor trailer does NOT mean that you lose your brakes... it means that they are automatically applied with full force. Something smells fishy with this story...
Hi Stunt, this is Christopher. I wasn't clear enough in the story but, as some other commenters have said as well, some of the cheaper air-brake systems back then used air pressure to squeeze the brakes on a trailer because running hydraulic lines that far back would be too difficult. When they lost air they released, unlike the modern fail-safe brakes we have now. This happened in the 70's and the trailer Lumley had rented could have been from the 60's or even the late 50's. The way he described it to me was that after he lost the gear he rode the air-assisted brakes so long that the brakes heated up the airlines until they couldn't take the pressure any longer and blew, releasing the pressure to the old-school trailer brakes and causing them to open, which put all of the braking load on the truck, quickly overheating those brakes and keeping him from being able to stop. As for the gear changes, Lumley has since passed away so I can't ask him but he was a new trucker and as Patrick Montgomery speculated below, probably tried to downshift rather than upshift to catch the engine.
i once had to clean up a grove 300tonne mobile crane. he burned his brakes in the mountains. and after the crash there was a beautiful shortcut in the forest. 40 some pine trees where just obliterated xD
As a truck mechanic and truck driver, I can comfortably say that some of this story is BS. Lol. But runaways do happen and it sounds like the main problem was the guys lack of experience.
@@deejayyy1681 well, 3 things that usually cause the best stories and "things gone wrong" 1. Hills/mountains 2. Loss of brakes 3. Loss/low of air pressure
Cool, someone here who knows trucks. The brake pedal only pressurizes the blue line so jabbing the brake can't blow off the red one. If the red blew off the brakes would lock, at 5MPH it's gonna stop. No matter how much weight is trying to push it down the hill, the transmission will only see the load that the engine can put on it so it couldn't have been overwhelmed. Runaways are usually because the driver has overheated the brakes by using them too much on a long downhill run, that wouldn't have happened 5 MPH when he first tried to slow it down. Plus it was a new truck, so very unlikely to have a hose failure. It's a completely fake story.
It's possibly true. It's a retold story of a story lol. I'm sure all the facts aren't in order. New truck with an even newer driver with an outlaw heavy load. He picked the wrong gear and ol girl started running away from him. Lack of experience he probably roasted the brakes so badly they just couldn't hold her back anymore. The physics are possible. I'm sure this incident would have made the local paper at least. It might be provably true. Could be one hell of a tall tale too.
Damn... Would love to read the news articles and see possible photo's of this destruction. Can't find it right away on Google. But I'm not American I am obviously looking in the wrong places.
Someone needs to make all of Chris's stories in to a "Shorties Watching Shorties" Animated comedy skit series. WOW!!! The new VINwiki Animated series!!
I once did a drop and hook with a guy who had a trailer that didn't have any trailer breaks at all ...it has originally started the trip in Washington state and the swap was in Oklahoma....I stopped and pondered all the mountains that the other driver just went through... that is something I don't ever want to try....it's no joke when a truck can't stop.
Not to be a downer here but the largest wrecking balls ever made weighed in at 15,000 pounds and were 30 inches in diameter. the combined weight 30,000 pounds well within your average 18 wheelers capacity. Whatever he was hauling it wasn’t a wrecking ball
There's no synchronizers in a big rig manual transmission. You lose an airline and your brakes clamp down. so you don't necessarily lose your brakes and can't stop They can burn up but losing an airline on a big rig isn't the same thing as losing your brakes on a car
Yep the large canisters you see under a semi truck actually has a spring in it that applies pressure to the brakes. The air workes against that spring to disengage the brakes.
Back in the day when trucks dropped below air pressure you didn't have any breaks at all. Now if you lose air pressure or bust your emergency line on your trailer or something your breaks will lock up completely.
Yup, it's a total BS story. That truck was new enough that it would have the safety brakes, and they wouldn't have been overheated since he was only going 5MPH and had just started to use the brakes. It woulda locked right up and stopped as soon as the red airline blew off, which wouldn't happen from pumping the brake pedal since it only sends pressure to the blue line.
When the air lines pop off of a trailer it removes the air from the brakes, which on a truck it takes air to retract the brakes. So, if the lines popped off the trailer tires would have locked up.
Glenn, I have a CDL myself and you are correct about air brakes for the last 50 years or so but some of the earlier, cheaper ones from the 50's and 60's use air assist back to the trailer and when you lost a pressure it was all truck. Thanks for watching and commenting!
For anybody wondering the truck in the thumbnail is about to go up for auction on AuctionTime.com, it’s a 1982 Peterbilt 359 show truck, opening bid is $96,000, the seller claims it’s one of a kind the way the paint and all has been done.
Nowadays; 90% of truckers are complete A-hole D-bags that don't get along with anyone; that's why they are alone in their rig.....swerving onto the shoulder because they're on their phone.
As a flatbed driver I can tell you there are some great stories out there if you ever get to sit down w an old hand. Find one and buy him a coffee and he can undoubtedly entertain you about the old days.
He should have hired a second truck to get over the range and then double load on flat land. would have saved some money that way and kept your truck. But then we wouldn't have this story.
Somewhere out there is a german with a story of a crazy american trucker who leveled a forest and threw him out of his truck lmao
I wonder if he ever got his backpack back?
@@brien1254 well i think its 50 50 eether or not kid had it on him when he was pushed out if not and it fell off a cliff in a runaway big rig i doudt there was much left to give back
I’m sure his story never gets old as he tells it drinking beer out a boot.
🤣🤣🤣
nice spoiler alert
7:39 and suddenly I imagined somebody doing a base jump, having just opened their parachute and being happy to be alive, only to be hit by a semi truck
Grim but sorta funny
Final Destination lol
Not just a truck, but one hauling two wrecking balls capable of taking out a forest. Lol
😀
That’d be some more way to go out.
I've always wondered why "run away trucks" happened. I thought, "why not just downshift?". But hearing the description makes sense to me
It's a fine story. Hey, I know it's too late for this... but couldn't you just crash it into whatever is beside the road. I mean 5-10 mph? Oh well. Maybe next time.
I learned aswell. Damn transmission is always the weak link
Yeah I thought the same
@@eddiebaker3267 yeah. I'm sure he could've crashed the truck into some rock(since he was in the mountains)
@THAT Guy nah bud
This trucker was clearly "East Bound and Down"
“Eastbound and down,
Overloaded and huckin,’
These balls gon’ do what they say shan’t be done,
We’ve got a long way to go,
And we ain’t never gon’ get there,
Jump out the cab and watch ol’ Peter run!”
@UCHiCoIHuDNUaByvxIfDXxwA This guy gets it. 😋
Now I wanna listen to some Jerry Reed.
@@samsonian im dead
His truck went south bound and very down
I lost my brakes on the grapevine with a loaded dump truck when I was 20 years old, man what a ride that was
80 MPH at a 7% grade downhill, woo mama thank the lord I am here
my dad drove trucks part time when he was a paramedic and there was this one driver that would always go full speed. this is in the middle of nowhere in Quebec so there's not many cops or ministry of transportation officers out here so some truckers would just go balls deep and go full speed all the way to their destination. the problem is that truck tires aren't exactly meant to drive on poorly maintained roads, at 80mph, hours on end and then suddenly brake. imagine your surprise when that driver had 2-4 popped tires by the time he'd show up at his destination every single time.
I still see drivers to this day smoking their brakes on the grapevine. These newer trucks have stronger engine brakes I almost never have to use the service brakes even on steep mountain backroads but you still have people smoking their brakes.
just “2 giant balls and a dream”😂
Thats insane i travel through the grapevine pretty often and i couldnt imagine that glad your still here
Now he can run for Swift Trucking
i absolutely love that almost everyone that knows something/anything about trucking knows how shitty swift is lmao
He probably started swift as well 😂
Jerry Moyes was trained by this guy 😂😂
Swift jokes are the best jokes!
Y’all r acting like he didn’t make a Swift decision.😂
That is the difference between a professional driver, and just a cdl holder.
Hear hear! What's CDL?
Commercial drivers license
Ans knowing ones limitations.
Exactly
TRUTH!!!
I like this this “Good Old Boy” and his stories, very entertaining.
Dipshits across the country like that good old boy in the 70s and 80s helped to ruin trucking and create more than half of the bullshit laws, CHP fees, city fees, scales, high insurance rates and regulations that trucking business people like myself have to deal with. This 11 minute story could be boiled down to idiot overloads his equipment, almost kills some people and loses his bankroll paying for the damages.
Hes a good story teller.
Yes, very entertaining. In fact, all of the VinWiki videos I've seen with him are very entertaining as well.
Ole’ *
More like lies than actual stories.
Ok this guy Rabbit and Ed are my favorite storytellers now
I must be the only 1 who cant stand a single word from rabbit. This guys great tho
Difference between rabbit stories and everyone else… Rabbit is arrogant, everyone else just tells a straight good story.
It's complete BS so I can't enjoy it, but if you're ignorant of trucks or just let reality take a back seat then it's probably fun. About the time the truck hit 15MPH I couldn't take the bullshit any more so I paused it to see if anyone else had commented on the BS.
@@DonziGT230 yeah, it's total BS
@@crazypeoplearoundtheworld304 I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. Do I think the dude who was originally driving jumped an overcapacity truck over the hill? Yes. Do I think there was damage? Yes. Could some of the damage be overstated? Maybe.
I'm willing to give it a pass though because of it being secondhand. It wasn't one that happened to him and he was just repeating it.
Looks like that “intelligent drywall man, with a 7th grade education” wasn’t all that “intelligent” after all...
He was intelligent, just inexperienced. I drove truck for years and even drove the ports for a few months. Wrecking balls don't weigh that much. I've been in the mountains in the winter with 80,000 pounds gross weight. That guy was only going 15mph when he was out of gear. He could have EASILY gotten into gear if he was experienced. I was out of gear going down a Utah mountain and managed to get back into gear within like 10 seconds.
I don't believe the part of this story where both of his air lines came off because if your emergency air hose comes off, then your trailer brakes will lock up as a safety mechanism. His clearly didn't lock up.
@@paidtourist6563 experience isn't the problem. I've never drove a truck in my life but I know damn well what mechanical overload means. BOOM! DEATH! DESTRUCTION! You can learn that riding a bicycle, dangit! He was just on a power trip from all the money
I am very pleased with the recent addition of Christopher to the VINwiki storytelling lineup.
Were air brakes different back then? As far as I know loss of air causes more braking not less for safety. That's what makes moving a broken truck so hard.
Yes the brake chambers ( air cylinder that apply s brake shoes) were single chamber meaning air had to be applied for them to work. Now they are piggy backs ,maxis, spring chambers different names same thing , that have two chambers together, one with a spring in it that applies the parking park that is released when air is added and a second that applies the service brake ( braking used in normal driving) when air is applied. I know it is are run one sentence.
Yeah I dunno about back then, the part with the air hoses blowing off doesn’t make any sense to me unless it’s just something lost in translation. They would get stuck on like Ben said above (great explanation by the way) but if he was all ready out of control the brakes would have been so hot they wouldn’t have been able to stop the truck anymore
In a situation where a truck runs away on a down grade the brakes will burn up before the truck stops, pre 1975 trailers had air cylinders so the trailer would have a park brake until the air bled off then the park brakes would release much like train cars, now day that have spring brake chambers so when the air is applied the brakes release, and when the air is released a giant spring holds it in emergency, also back then you didn’t have tractor protection valves, now when air pressure drops below 60psi buzzers go off and below 25psi it sets all your brakes automatically back then you have one or two gauges that you had to watch
most old school trailers used air to keep the park brake on, so there was no fail safe like with todays maxibrakes. so old type trailers had to be chocked when not attached to a truck. even if it did have maxi brakes the mass alone of the trailer would have faded the brakes hard.
Scraps G incorrect in March 1 1975 FMVSS passed a set of laws mandating all trailers built after that date to have spring parking brakes and tractors have to have steer axle brakes before that it was as described air held the parking brake when the air bled off the the trailer would roll and actually oil field frac tanks are still that way so they can be moved with equipment, also trains were not outfitted with air brakes until the 1910s and 1920s before that it was the chain style brake wheel on the cars. And brake men were still used well into the 1950s., now the tractor protection valve didn’t become mandatory till 2010 although if you ran out of air in the truck the brakes would apply as they all pretty much had 30/30 brake chambers
Vin Diesel said Lumley wasn't double clutchin' like he should.
I knew it! He was granny shifting!
@@jaykarolyi9237 crowd 'OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Clutch is only for starting and stopping. Any real driver will tell ya that
@@thatguy-pl8py, absolutely, if you're not floating gears your legs are gonna be tired in no time.
This truck, this truck CAN be red.
Like to repaint it?
SOVIET RUSSIA no no, it can be red
Like you want us to repaint it?
🤣
@@ahh-3515 No No No....
But... I.... It could be red.
😇
That’s a big 10-4 rubber ducky
Whatever gear you go up a mountain in, is the gear you need to go down the mountain in.
This man speaks the truth
Actually, you go down in the next gear lower than you climbed the hill. I've been driving for 22 years and lived and drove the Pacific Northwest. That was the FIRST thing I learned, the hard way!!
@@craftbeerlover9994 my comment is based from my experiences on The East coast
You are both right. Newer trucks you can use same gear. Older trucks you use a gear lower. All really depends on the hill,load and experience.
Copy that, good buddy.
This guy is one of the BEST storytellers on this channel...!!!
I grew up around the truckers of the 70s and 80s.. had alot of fun over the years and seen some wild things.
Normally it would be weird to click a video titled "My Giant Balls" but this is VinWiki, anything goes.
I'm a gas tanker driver, and we had a driver crossing the mountains during winter, and in one particularly bad area, he hits ice. This was an experienced driver, and the computer shows him doing everything right to try and straighten the truck back out and stop the slide. It quickly gets away from him though, and in the darkness ahead he sees a fairly sharp turn into nothingness, so he too decided to jump.
They found the truck upright in the snow, a few hundred yards off the roadway. It had hit several snow banks, which slowed it to a stop with snow up above its hood, but otherwise perfect, with no driver.
About 300 yards back they found the driver. When he jumped, his feet hit the ice, and he slipped the wrong way, instead of away from the truck to safety, he slid towards the truck and under the drive tires.
He got crushed by the 105,500lbs driverless tanker truck, that then went and parked itself in the snow.
And he’s still alive ??
@@chadanderson2045 Under the wheels? I think that driver made his last mistake by jumping.
@@chadanderson2045 - Nah, he died on the spot. They found his crushed and frozen body.
The moral of this story is go down with the ship, you might get some snow banks along the way?
Oh man, that sucks
This guy has some cool stories
I love listening to him
The titles of this guys stories are all really cheeky and I love it LMAO
Hands down best story I ever heard on this channel. Thank you!
“You gotta send it off the mountain”
Just watch “Duel” by Spielberg if you want to see a dramatic recreation of this truck crash.
Great movie
Pretty epic movie, one of the first films Speilberg directed. Even today it holds its own in terms of the camera work/stunts/cinematography. And it was a made for TV movie with a pretty small budget.
Love this guy's story telling style! Keep the awesome stories coming!
This dude is awesome Ed!!! Keep him comin.
I heard this story almost exactly as told in the 80s when I started trucking from Texas to the NW back and forth. Its gotta be true. It's hard enough to find a gear with a modern 18 speed, the story I was told was it was a 2 stick 5 / 4 .... its damn near impossible to get back in gear if you miss a gear in that situation.
When I started driving semi. I was told about a guy who made a lot of money driving for others. Like this story he bought a brand new truck, top of the line new aluminum flatbed. He was hauling IIRC wire coils. Very heavy but didn’t take much deck space. IIRC 3 was lite, but 4 he was overloaded. He did a trip with 3. Easy, next trip he did 4. (Overloaded but well within abilities of equipment). Then he decided to make some money. He had them load 6.
Well he had issues. Brakes overheating on hills, power climbing hills.
Then he had a accident. Where he couldn’t stop in time and plowed into a parked car. He did a hit & run. (Yep with a semi). His info is noted.
He gets to delivery point. They pay him for 3 units. (Because that’s all it’s legal for him to haul). “If you want to go to court that you hauled twice your legal load that’s fine”
Unloaded he finds his fancy aluminum deck is sprung. (Those decks are arched up empty fir strength). So $$$ damage to trailer, $$$ to his truck that he creamed a car with.
Finally he is arrested, truck impounded for the hit & run. The only positive. It was not proven he was massively overloaded in his criminal case. So don’t get stupid with loads.
4:35 you missed a good opportunity to make a pun. You shoulda say " it was going down Hill"
I can't believe it. I've heard this story before from my neighbour. He told me he got pushed out of the moving truck. Greetings from Germany
Please tell me your not pulling are chain here with this
Du bist ein dummkopf
For those of you who haven't driven a big truck, there are no synchronizers in the transmission. If the truck is out of gear and speeding up you have to pick a higher gear and speed up the engine to match. It is completely counter intuitive to what you are trying to do which is slow down the truck. Also, The engines usually have between 350 to 500 braking horsepower when using the engine (jake) brake. Not having the truck in gear going down a hill is a major problem.
Love this dudes stories! Even when they're not his!
How about when they're not true?
As a point of order, if both air lines (service and parking)to the trailer became somehow unattached, the parking brakes on each wheel will clamp on.
So early Doug is still looking for quirks and features!
So we crashed the guardrail doin’ twenty-three
I says "Let them balls free, 10-4"
Love trucker stories. They seem so odd and fake but if you was there. They all real. My Uncle Billy was a truck driver. Navy back in Vietnam too. big loud mouth spoke his mind freely about any thing. He left us last year because of strokes and then old age hit him. Then he left us fast then. He is burred at pace fl Navy base. My Uncle Billy was a interesting cat and utlimate respect to military and truck drivers. Uncle Billy I hope you have a blast in FL with your boys and girls. I hear his voice in my head. With a year in my eye. Thank you for the lovely story.
Stories like this are what I love about this channel. No other way would I have heard something like this!
T'was the dark of the moon, on the 6th of June, in a Kenworth pullin BALLS!
Omg, these stories are things massive movies are made of, let alone legends. Please keep these stories coming !!! Loving these stories ❤
Man's out here playing BeamNG in real life
Last time I was this early The Mexican Stig was still a thing
Christopher and Rob tell the best stories by far
When I saw the title and thumbnail, I knew this gon' be good
Anyone know where I can find coverage of this? I REALLY want to see coverage.😂😂
As a Trucker, I can say that this is one of the top 3 best Trucking stories ever...LEGEND.
Even tho it's complete BS?!? I couldn't stand the lies.
@@DonziGT230 nah fam, you can read the stories and news articles
That was a great story! Need more of these to help keep people anonymous... cough cough 217mph gumball run stories cough cough
Chris, you are a heck of a storyteller. I very much enjoy the way you tell storys.
The Bravo sierra is deep and thick.
That Peterbuilt shoulda stopped in its tracks while this rendition was being told.
Sorry, but regulations where pretty tight in the 70's too.
Sure would like to have video of those Balls rolling through there .CGI from the Balls point of view.....There might be a Song in this story.
Air hoses blowing off was definatly story indulgence, cause there would be a whole lotta screeching and smoking from the tires burning up. Great story anyway.
Depends on the actual year. Back then the brakes didn't apply when you lost air, they actually needed air to apply.
This is the best story I have ever heard!
Thanks vinwiki
Cool story except for one problem, losing your air lines on a tractor trailer does NOT mean that you lose your brakes... it means that they are automatically applied with full force. Something smells fishy with this story...
Hi Stunt, this is Christopher. I wasn't clear enough in the story but, as some other commenters have said as well, some of the cheaper air-brake systems back then used air pressure to squeeze the brakes on a trailer because running hydraulic lines that far back would be too difficult. When they lost air they released, unlike the modern fail-safe brakes we have now. This happened in the 70's and the trailer Lumley had rented could have been from the 60's or even the late 50's. The way he described it to me was that after he lost the gear he rode the air-assisted brakes so long that the brakes heated up the airlines until they couldn't take the pressure any longer and blew, releasing the pressure to the old-school trailer brakes and causing them to open, which put all of the braking load on the truck, quickly overheating those brakes and keeping him from being able to stop. As for the gear changes, Lumley has since passed away so I can't ask him but he was a new trucker and as Patrick Montgomery speculated below, probably tried to downshift rather than upshift to catch the engine.
i once had to clean up a grove 300tonne mobile crane. he burned his brakes in the mountains. and after the crash there was a beautiful shortcut in the forest. 40 some pine trees where just obliterated xD
As a truck mechanic and truck driver, I can comfortably say that some of this story is BS. Lol. But runaways do happen and it sounds like the main problem was the guys lack of experience.
Everything starts going wrong when you're headed downhill outta control lol
@@deejayyy1681 well, 3 things that usually cause the best stories and "things gone wrong"
1. Hills/mountains
2. Loss of brakes
3. Loss/low of air pressure
Cool, someone here who knows trucks. The brake pedal only pressurizes the blue line so jabbing the brake can't blow off the red one. If the red blew off the brakes would lock, at 5MPH it's gonna stop. No matter how much weight is trying to push it down the hill, the transmission will only see the load that the engine can put on it so it couldn't have been overwhelmed.
Runaways are usually because the driver has overheated the brakes by using them too much on a long downhill run, that wouldn't have happened 5 MPH when he first tried to slow it down. Plus it was a new truck, so very unlikely to have a hose failure.
It's a completely fake story.
It's possibly true. It's a retold story of a story lol. I'm sure all the facts aren't in order. New truck with an even newer driver with an outlaw heavy load. He picked the wrong gear and ol girl started running away from him. Lack of experience he probably roasted the brakes so badly they just couldn't hold her back anymore. The physics are possible. I'm sure this incident would have made the local paper at least. It might be provably true. Could be one hell of a tall tale too.
@@deejayyy1681 Roasted the brakes trying to stop from 5MPH, don't think so.
This guy’s stories never disappoint!
Damn... Would love to read the news articles and see possible photo's of this destruction. Can't find it right away on Google. But I'm not American I am obviously looking in the wrong places.
You know it's a good story when you hear, "In the court case..."
Classic old trucker tale. Even gets told over wolf creek pass and even monteagle mountain.
Hi Beux, Christopher here. Lumley was a classic old trucker. He must have been the guy who those stories were about.
What a great Story and storyteller. Thanks so much for telling it.
Someone needs to make all of Chris's stories in to a "Shorties Watching Shorties" Animated comedy skit series. WOW!!! The new VINwiki Animated series!!
I’m calling shenanigans on this truckers story for many reasons. Cool story though. Thank you for sharing.
I once did a drop and hook with a guy who had a trailer that didn't have any trailer breaks at all ...it has originally started the trip in Washington state and the swap was in Oklahoma....I stopped and pondered all the mountains that the other driver just went through... that is something I don't ever want to try....it's no joke when a truck can't stop.
I haven't been so entertained in decade's love this so very much
This guy is a good storyteller, we need him back
This man’s story telling gifts should be honored as a National treasure.
This guy clearly doesn't know crap on anything technical aspects about trucking. Great story. 60% bull.
Holy story of all stories! Awesome!
This dude is an awesome storyteller and that sounded like one hell of a ride
"I CAME IN LIKE A WREEECKING BAAAAALL"
More like: "I CAME IN WITH TWO WREEEECKING BAAAALLLS!"
That story. Had me in awe, in fright, and in physical pain by the end. Golllllllyy
This is second only to Alex Roy's state trooper story
That was a good one!
Christopher's stories never disappoint.
Not to be a downer here but the largest wrecking balls ever made weighed in at 15,000 pounds and were 30 inches in diameter. the combined weight 30,000 pounds well within your average 18 wheelers capacity. Whatever he was hauling it wasn’t a wrecking ball
There's no synchronizers in a big rig manual transmission.
You lose an airline and your brakes clamp down. so you don't necessarily lose your brakes and can't stop They can burn up but losing an airline on a big rig isn't the same thing as losing your brakes on a car
Just when I said to myself “damn this is the best VINwiki story” he says that’s not the end of the story. I love this channel
My heart was racing listening to this...love this guy.
Dont air brakes fail closed? Meaning the trailer would lockup the wheels.
Yep the large canisters you see under a semi truck actually has a spring in it that applies pressure to the brakes. The air workes against that spring to disengage the brakes.
Not on the older trailers
Back in the day when trucks dropped below air pressure you didn't have any breaks at all. Now if you lose air pressure or bust your emergency line on your trailer or something your breaks will lock up completely.
If you over use them, they will fail from over heat.
Yup, it's a total BS story. That truck was new enough that it would have the safety brakes, and they wouldn't have been overheated since he was only going 5MPH and had just started to use the brakes. It woulda locked right up and stopped as soon as the red airline blew off, which wouldn't happen from pumping the brake pedal since it only sends pressure to the blue line.
More stories from this guy PLEASE!!!!!
When the air lines pop off of a trailer it removes the air from the brakes, which on a truck it takes air to retract the brakes. So, if the lines popped off the trailer tires would have locked up.
Glenn, I have a CDL myself and you are correct about air brakes for the last 50 years or so but some of the earlier, cheaper ones from the 50's and 60's use air assist back to the trailer and when you lost a pressure it was all truck. Thanks for watching and commenting!
For anybody wondering the truck in the thumbnail is about to go up for auction on AuctionTime.com, it’s a 1982 Peterbilt 359 show truck, opening bid is $96,000, the seller claims it’s one of a kind the way the paint and all has been done.
Wow guys 1million subs!!! Ahhh feels good knowing y’all a growing!
In the US, CDL requirement didn't become mandatory until 1992. Truck drivers in 1977 were required to have a chauffeur's license.
Christopher Michaels needs his own TH-cam channel
When Trucking was Still a Cowboy Job. Not Like these day's
Nowadays; 90% of truckers are complete A-hole D-bags that don't get along with anyone; that's why they are alone in their rig.....swerving onto the shoulder because they're on their phone.
I remember seeing a Taylor Trucking and a Swift truck side by side on the interstate once. It was pretty ironic
I’ve been binge watching his stories .. dude needs to make short clips like drunk history
As a flatbed driver I can tell you there are some great stories out there if you ever get to sit down w an old hand. Find one and buy him a coffee and he can undoubtedly entertain you about the old days.
As a trucker myself I couldn’t imagine being in that situation, but definitely a cool story
Great story keep them coming
I would Love to see CHRISTOPHER & RABBIT exchange stories Ha Ha 🤪
I would also love to see them exchange insults. I'm sure they have some great slang we're all missing out on.
"They thought it was an avalanche." oh god lol
He should have hired a second truck to get over the range and then double load on flat land. would have saved some money that way and kept your truck. But then we wouldn't have this story.
Another great story. Well done by all.
That truly is a tragic story
I knew EXACTLY who would be telling this story as soon as I saw the title.
From the title it was Rabbit or Sir Michaels. I love these stories, man.
Best story on this channel
These story tellers are amazing
I could sit and listen Christopher for hours. He is absolutely an amazing story teller and funny as shit but at the right times.
My favorite guest 🙌🏿