Truck Smart Stopping Demonstration

Truck Smart is a partner of Zero Fatalities. In this video you will see a semi truck and a dump truck try to come to a complete stop in comparison with a passenger vehicle. The first demonstration is with an empty Semi-truck traveling at 35 mph. Normally these big rigs will be traveling at 65 mph and will be towing 80,000 pounds. The second is with a loaded dump truck traveling at only 25 mph. This will put it in to perspective and demonstrate that you really should leave these big rigs a good amount of distance to be able to stop.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Zero Fatalities Truck Smart
• Semi Truck stopping distance
• brakes test
• Dump truck stopping distance

[kipparimies]

If the semi was loaded and had brakes to couple with the weight, it would have stopped almost like being empty, as weight increases traction.

[bleaklikesteak]

Wow. Thats interesting. I can only imagine if that semi was fully loaded and the speed were 65-70 mph. I am pretty good around trucks and try to give them plenty of space on all sides but this confirms how I drive them around them.