Fire Appliance 180 degree handbrake turn

During driver training I simulated an out of control skid and did a 180 degree handbrake turn.

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• Fire
• Engine
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• handbrake
• turn
• drifting
• fire
• appliance
• kent
• brigade
• and
• rescue
• UK
• crash
• Dennis
• Sabre
• efad
• hard
• braking
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• dartford
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[MadPropsToTheHood]

If this engine was filled with water this'd be another story.

[toofee36]

@MadPropsToTheHood

It was.1600 ltrs. We have to have the aplliance at full working weight with the movement of water included to make the driving as real as possible. Otherwise you might as well be driving a light weight truck.

[scottmaitland999]

You NEVER need to do this. A case of showing off and driving with his d**k and not his brain.

Drivers like this give us all a bad name. Do you want all service drivers to end up as bad as the police?

EFAD 8 Years, rural and urban. With NO need to drive like a lunatic and to 'see what happens'. Nonsense....

[toofee36]

I agree. You would NEVER do this on the street. HOWEVER, the skid is being done here to show the driver what would could happen if they lost control and was unable to bring it back under control. It reminds the driver that they should never drive above their ability. It was also done on a POLICE driver training skid pan. Notice the words SKID & PAN. Its kind of the idea so it is done in a controlled enviroment. I NEVER drive like a lunatic as I have the public and my crews' lives in my hands.

[jmjw8211]

why would you need to no who to do this? for a police car style responce?

[toofee36]

We would never need to do this out on the real streets. It was done just to train the driver what the appliance would do in the event of a skid. This is what happens if the skid is not brought under control.

[Zeamus634]

Well thats one way of parking a truck!

[silentsmokey]

someones been playing grand theft auto.

[mcgherkinstudios]

@cosmaximum1 Well said. We can all drive perfectly well when all is going right, but the skill of the driver counts when things go wrong.

[JakeBrakeable]

Sweet. Do you teach this so this when you miss a turn you can hit that e brake n turn on a dime... I do that plowing in a 10 wheeler dump pop the air brakes crank the wheel half way threw push in and hammer down ..in the snow..( not on public roads )

[omardude39]

@toofee36 Kudos to your well-metered response here. I think it should've been apparent without even the caption what the context of this was, but regardless you explained it to the original commenter.

[nisb21]

now this guy has got balls!!!

[brushtraction]

bayleaf!

[TopTap09]

@scottmaitland999 get a life

[Jamiewaldie1992]

lol and people say you can't do a handbrake turn in a vauxhall corsa, this proves that you can handbrake turn pretty much anything...

[yamahonkawazuki]

@toofee36 trolls never read descriptions lol. always wanted to see what ahppens when this did. err a handbrake skid. yall pulled this off 100% imho. woner if it were try would /could the truck have flipped?