I-24’s runaway truck ramp is designed for moments when brakes fail and speed becomes uncontrollable. Real incidents show ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- With a new, second, runaway truck ramp in the planning stages, the Colorado Department of Transportation is seeking input from truckers on whether the ramp should be on ...

Colorado is home to the most heavily used runaway truck ramp in the U.S. — Lower Straight Creek runaway truck ramp along westbound Interstate 70, according to CDOT. Week 16 Data Dump: QBs, RBs, WRs ...

GARDEN CITY, Utah — The Utah Department of Transportation showed off their new truck runway ramp out in Garden City Thursday, the first of its kind in the state. Instead of using gravel to slow down ...

Pictures of a Tesla Semi with missing body panels and gravel lodged in its headlamps were posted online. This suggests that Tesla might have tested the Semi on a runaway truck ramp or that the Semi ...

Dashcam footage captured two separate incidents involving heavy trucks. In one case, a driver used a runaway ramp after experiencing brake failure. In another, a semi and a concrete truck collided at ...

Colorado's I-70 mountain corridor is one of the most dangerous stretches of highway in the U.S. Denver7's Richard Butler tells us why one runaway truck ramp in particular is the number one used in the ...

Runaway truck ramps (“escape ramps” to highway engineers, “litterboxes” to truckers) are less-than-subtle reminders to slow down on long downgrades. Although, if you need one, it could be because you ...

A new truck arrestor ramp opened today on U.S. 250 (Rockfish Gap Turnpike) that is the first ramp of its kind in Virginia. The $5.5 million safety feature is designed to put the brakes on runaway big ...

If you’ve ever driven on a large motorway, you’ll have no doubt seen runaway truck ramps in the past. While truckers would prefer not to use them, they can nevertheless prove to be life-savers.

A semitrailer went up in a blaze after its brakes caught fire and it went charging up a runaway truck ramp on Interstate 70 west of the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels on Tuesday, April 30.

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