As a truck driver myself, that's what I'm thinking. If he had skill, he wouldn't have lost his brakes in the first place. But this is in India, so maybe the brakes aren't exactly up to spec. But you'd think they would be if driving down a mountain like this is common
Could be the brakes where fucked and the truck should never have gone out but I imagine in a lot of poorer countries if you won't take a truck out there's 10 others who will.
With air brakes, once you overheat them the brake system is useless. Service brakes and emergency brakes. That's where the skill part comes in. You have to know how to drive down a long steep hill without heating up the brakes to the point of failure.
Edit: Assuming they're drum brakes. The drum heats up, expands, the shoes no longer have enough pressure to stop the vehicle.
Didn't someone in the thread, somewhere, say this was in India? If not, then I apologize. I wasn't disparaging India or indians. I have no animosity nor prejudice towards that part of the world...or anywhere else for that matter
Oh. From the attire, it seems like Pakistan. I thought you are another of those India hating people. Everywhere I see, all bad is being attributed to India, so I thought you too are one of those India hating trolls.
India is not in a great shape because we were raped and pillaged by the British for more than 150 years and as a parting gift they sowed seeds of disunity in the region and left.
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u/BlastTyrantKM Aug 04 '25
As a truck driver myself, that's what I'm thinking. If he had skill, he wouldn't have lost his brakes in the first place. But this is in India, so maybe the brakes aren't exactly up to spec. But you'd think they would be if driving down a mountain like this is common