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I havent had too many problems in the way of jack knife. <br /> <br />The milk tanker truck on a R model mack I drove suffered the off-ramp scenario (On a downgrade to boot) and I believe if that one chamber locked first it would have created a very bad jack knife. I basically juggled the air the rest of the day in a race between stopping power versus losing air. <br /> <br />My wife was driving in 2000 winter crossing knoxville on light ice we hit a curve and the tractor lost it's footing and I reached over to grab the wheel and break the angle. Number two hit that spot and made it thru but numbers 3 thru 7 did not. The last I saw of any of them was a scene of chaos as they struggled to stay up right while gravity dragged the whole group into the median. I believe one of them was actually attempting to "Power out" and save his flat bed load with the horsepower. <br /> <br />I had one incident on filthy rain in the cross bronx expressway (Aka I-95 NYC) where a car cut me off trying to grab the off ramp for one of the bridges. He or she then stopped dead in front of my 70 mph rig (Speed my fault but you dont go slow in the bronx) ABS saved the day. <br /> <br />The rest of my recollections are related to winter driving when you cannot get enough traction and things get exciting and stressful.
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