lol some of those ramps kinda look like they would just launch the trucks

I thought you were supposed to nitro boost over the ramp to score a flip trick bonus

Been driving a big rig 12 years. Thankful I've never had to use a run-away ramp. When I was a rookie driver an older driver with over 30 years experience told me something I'll never forget. He told me you can go down the mountain too slow 1000 times but you can only go down the mountain too fast 1 time. I get in the right gear, set my jake brake and coast down gradually. Driving a big rig requires great patience

Interesting. I've NEVER seen one...

This video should be uploaded by SCIENCE INSIDER not Business insider

During my rookie years, working for my dad and had little experience, I accidently went into one of the sand bed escape to park. My supervisor was asleep next to me (long haul trip) and he freaked out and so do i as the truck started to shake aggressively as we hit the gravel. $30,000 in repair and damage + my dad being super angry as well wasnt fun.

My wife has this gravel in our bedroom, I never make it to the bed. Fml

After 19 years of life, this is the first time i have seen this 😂

Swift Transportation tells its drivers that if they ever use an escape ramp they’ll be fired.

“Chances are you have seen one of these” I have never once seen one of these

I have never seen these in the United States.

The Lavant, Austria example isn't correct. It's in Germany Hann. Münden - Werratal. Is even on the brown sign. JFI

Tons of them in the Colorado mountains. I've always wondered what would happen if 2 trucks needed it at the same time

C'mon, why the flamenco music to a ramp video...?🤔

So its true.. these ramps are here for people to escape the cops when being chased.. no wonder why there's random ramps on the side of roads in games they got it from real life!!

The escape ramp you showed at 0:51 isn't in Lavant, Austria it is in Hann. Münden in Germany it is the Werratal-bridge, which you can see on the backround.

0:21 That is the runaway ramp in Hamilton Gulch on I-70 W in Colorado just after the Eisenhower tunnel. That’s Buffalo mountain in the background. Will never forget that section of highway. Almost had a major accident right there 16 years ago on the way to Breckenridge.

I needed this back when I used to ride my bicycle down the hill and couldn't stop. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

My uncle lost his brakes right after passing the runaway ramp. He kept up shifting until the engine ran out of rpms at the top gear. Then he put it in neutral and held on. He hit over 100 (possibly way more) mph at the bottom of the pass. The Speedo only went to 85 but the needle was pegged to the end after a few miles the brakes cooled and he screeched to a long, slow stop. He did a walk around, made sure that everything was ok and went on his way. Moral of the story kids? When you’re maxed out, start the decent at 15mph, don’t touch the brakes or gas.

I had to read the title 9 times before I understood what was going on.

I can imagine some madlad trying to use the gravity escape ramp to get some air and find themselves dissapointed.

I swear my phone is recording my voice without my knowledge.

0:51 I know i‘m late to the party, but: the picture at 0:51 is not shot in Austria. It‘s on the german motorway A7, at the Bridge „Werratalbrücke“, near the town of Lippoldshausen.

I was driving through west Virginia in a 6x6 army semi truck that had been converted to a tow truck. I was towing a school bus. My brakes where fading bad and the Jake brake was not helping very much in the 120,000lb rig. I thought about hitting a runaway ramp but I was afraid that the MUCH higher ground clearance and taller and wider tires of the 6x6 would cause the truck to not slow down enough. Luckily I was able to slow down enough to hold the road and I'm glad I didnt risk the ramp

They’re called runaway truck ramps

The One Ramp you said is in Lavant Austria actually is in between Lower Saxony and Hessen in Germany. Drive around their almost every day with my truck ^^.

Wow. You learn something new everyday on KZfaq. Thanks for the recommendation.

0:50 this one is in Germany on the A7, just before the Werratalbrücke. Not in Austria. If you want to see for your Self. (51.4027153, 9.7097039)

'Big Wheeler' sounds like something an 8 year old would say.

If only Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock knew about this in 1994.

Imagine being a trucker and deciding if you could finish a turn or need to take the escape ramp...that’s like deciding if u wanna keep your job or not

One of those ramps once saved the life of Argentine football team Huracán in 2016. They played a Copa Libertadores playoff match against Caracas FC in Venezuela, and when traveling back to the airport, their bus lost its brakes. The driver took a runaway ramp with a high slope and it ended flipping on its side. Nobody suffered serious injuries, aside from a few players needing surgery and having to sit out for several months. I dont even want to imagine what would have happened if the ramp wasnt there and that bus went downhill with no brakes instead.

The force applied in a "rubber band" or a spring (which appears to be the working principle of the mechanical arrester ramp) increases LINEARLY with the displacement and not exponentially. If there is mechanical deformation, the slope will even decrease.

I wouldn’t want to be carrying a load of steal on the back of a lorry when having to use the emergency run off. Your be jousted straight through the back and out the window. What a lovely thought .

Thanks for the info. My family had our first road trip west of BC and as I noticed multiple dirt roads along the side freeway that goes way up vertical, and I wonder what were those for. Why put up dirt roads with no other vehicles would go up there in the first place? This video just answered it for me.

Never seen any of these ramps :O Never knew sth like this even existed :O Is that in some high mountains?

I’ve never seen an escape ramp.

0:50 this ramp isnt in Austria. It is located in Germany near Kassel. When you take a close look, you can see the sign in the Backround which says "Werratal Brücke"

The escape route labeled "Lavant, Austria" actually is between Kassel and Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. ;-)

I was today years old when I came to know something like this exists

"escape ramp" theifs me like oh thats for me

I would'nt want to use those mechanical escape ramps if I'm riding a bike.

Fun fact: most big airports have a similar gravel arresting material at the end of the runway. It's called Engineered materials arrestor system (EMAS)

Very informative! I never new such things exist before watching this

And one more thing is that the insurance company will pay you

This is the first time in my life I’ve heard of a truck escape ramp 🙂

This is why pre trips inspections are important

At 2:48, you have a image of the Union Quarry emergency ramp, Mount Barker Road, Leawood Gardens, South Australia. Prior to 2000, the Mt. Barker Road was 10 km of winding road, going through Eagle on the Hill, with gradients up to 13%. The old road had 2 arrester beds. One by Mesdaes Hill, which was a curving dirt road up a hill, with a bed of gravel on the top of the hill, which the truck would get through in most cases. The second ramp is the one you featured. In 2000, a new alignment was opened up, which has a 8 km constasnt 7% gradient, which ends at a set of traffic lights, just past the old Tollgate. This intersection is one of the busier ones within the Adelaide metropolitan area. Prior to the new road being opened up, there would be a truck accident on the hill once a week on average. Now, the accidents are once a year, but, they are more horrific. Police and the Mermaids have run an aggresive campaign to keep trucks off their brakes; a 60 km/h speed limit has been placed on vehicles over 4.5 tonne Gross Vehicle Mass, and all buses. Two speed cameras have been installed, and it is automatic loss of licence if you are caught speeding coming down the hill. Due to the nature of the gravel that is used in the beds, we refer to the ramsp as "Kitty Litter!"

Lol when he said arrestr wire I was thinking about a aircraft carrier

Kinda like how an aircraft carrier catches landing aircraft

This is one of the baddest inforgraphics seen in a long time. That cartoon truck made no sense.

That net idea is genius

This obviously causes a substantial increase in damage and repair costs to the rig.

Am I the only one who has seen this before like my mom told me about this in like 2nd grade

I notice alot of people thinking it costing $10,000 dollars to recover the rig and tens of thousands more to repair the rig. The cold plain maths is the one the Insurance company looks at. You use the ramp the insurance company thinks, this driver just saved us anywhere from $200,000 if minor incident to millions on big incident. A loss of life makes the expense of the Ramp and repairs cheap in comparison. We have seen trucks in Australia go through houses and kill everyone in cars in bad incidents. A Ramp makes it safer for everyone. The drive up the highway to Toowoomba is interesting and on the way down even more so. I hate being in front of trucks on that road because of the grade. Going up all the trucks are in low gear and having a tought time, going down all the trucks are doing way under the speed limit and less than the recommended speeds. Gradient is as high as %10.5 with tight corners as well.

You know what winds me up ? When people use exponentially when it's not exponential, like at 3:30. If I remember correctly, tension forces increase linearly with extention. It could be quadratic. But it is definitely not exponential. Just say "it increases the further the truck travels"

*Truck:* Brakes stop working *Gravity Escape Ramp:* Hi 👋 *Truck:* reaches top of escape ramp *Truck driver:* Phew 😅 *Truck:* starts falling back down the ramp...

Truck driver goes "All my hours in gta have led me to this moment"

Imagine the mechanical arrester ramp malfunctioning and it launches the truck the other way after stopping it.

Coming into Adelaide, South Australia we have a few as the highway into Adelaide has a long, steep hill to go down. Few years back we had a wave of poorly trained truckies burning out their brakes and not realising until they passed the last arrester bed and approached traffic lights, taking our cars at the large intersection at the bottom of the hill. Now, no truck is allowed to go over 60kmph (road speed 110kmph) down the hill, using their gears to control the speed. To use these beds, it cost up to $10,000 to recover the truck but the damage done to the truck I believe makes it a write-off as the gravel completely shreds the bottom of the vehicle.

This is the first I hear of these. Any in Canada? Really neat stuff... Sucks that there's no way to stop a runaway truck mechanically or electronically in 2019 though... :/

Where exactly do these exist? I've never seen one, seems pretty cool though. Personally I'm a big fan of the last one, the one which catches the truck safely. Also wouldn't the ramp just make it roll back into traffic on its way down?

Interesting. Nice solution to avoid an accidents with trucks.

That new ramp completely destroyed the front end of that red semi haha, minimal damage my a$$

Crazy to think that they would actually need to use this 😮 Imagine being that truck driver 👎

Anyone els here because of the the guy in jail? Lol

Never heard of this. Thanks.

In India people would start selling fast food on it! Thankfully we don't have them.. also, this is the first time I'm hearing about such a thing!

I saw them the first time when going from San Diego, CA to Phoenix, AZ.

Imagine two trucks one in front of the other and only one arrestor ramp.....and you're the 2nd truck.....

What airports use for runway over runs might be more affective, less costly and less damaging to the truck.

I was hoping for some explanation on those gravity escape ramps. We have those in my country, and every time I see them I wonder, since the breaks aren't working, what if it starts coming backwards? Are they really that safe?

I’m from Ireland and I’ve never seen one of the ramps/gravel traps...

They mostly exist on mountainous express ways. There's 3 on one strip of expressway here because a lot of people have died due to trucks losing brakes when going downhill. Seen cars and trucks go on them too and they just sink and stop.

The mechanical arrester bed you see in the video is from my home town of North Bay Ontario! We've dubbed the hill T-bone hill since there is a set of lights right at the bottom.

Why care about TRUCKS when we have HYPERLOOP

We got none of them in the usa i never seen any of this before

Those sand pile beds look like hell. YIKES.

Very interesting video! Very informative!

I honestly didn't particularly like the cut out representation of what you were trying to do. I would possibly even not make it so jumbled. Looking at the rock piles and sand piles with your cut outside made me kinda loose track and what you were saying. Sorry I didn't like this video and hope it helps your next one

Such a random subject.. click, watch

I've seen a lot of these at Semarang-Surakarta expressway. In particularly the 67 km portion between Banyumanik toll plaza all the way to Boyolali that cuts through hills, mountains, valleys, and ravines with steep inclines and declines and lots of climbing lanes.

The cable braking method is used in North Bay Ontario as the red truck has demonstrated

I remember seeing one of these for the first time while playing American Truck Simulator. "Hey, where does this go?" was soon followed by needing a tow to the nearest repair shop.

I have literally never seen or heard of these

0:50 Its not Austria, It´s the "Werratalbrücke" in Germany between Kassel and Göttingen on The Highway "A7" Direction North xD In the beginning of the Video you can read the brown Sign close to the Bridge (0:23). Greetings from Germany

That ground round music is really beautiful

That first ramp looks a little spooky

Saw one of those gravity escape ramps today. Truck went up the ramp, jumped of the cliff, landed on hard ground and rolled.

this was oddly very well done for such an uncommon thing

Did they get the steel nets idea from the scene where Spider-Man stops the train? 😂

Golden Rule always look ahead for a escape route

Never heard or or seen one is these ramps before but they seem cool

Why this video actually exisits? LOVED IT

I saw a crazy one in New Zealand where they had no space to place it next to the road leading down the hill. So they out it on the other side. Means a truck with broken brakes had to cross through the upcoming traffic to end up in the sand bed. And the one shown with the note of Austria is in the middle of Germany on the highway A7 next to the bridge over the river Werra.

Very good invention

For everyone saying they've never seen one, enough, yes you have

I always assumed they launch you away from the highway and simultaneously to your own doom.

Great video

Another "why is this in my recommended videos, but I watched anyway" YT video.