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Old 07-02-2005, 03:24 PM
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Those of us that drive in the mountains frequently you will see enough trucks over time with brakes on fire , smoking or gotten so bad they become runaways you would see a good reason to allow their use....get the brakes hot enough the drums swell and no longer hold the truck back.....then you have a 100,000 pound rollorcoaster with no hope of stopping. When the driver is lucky there is nobody in front of him and he gets to an upgrade to get stopped....when he isn't he loses control in a turn or plows through vehicles in front of him...
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