From: Steve & Jeannie Keith (cckw@comcast.net)
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 04:06:06 PDT
Out in western MA one time at the tail end of the convoy with my CCKW.
I came up over a slight rise and discovered everyone stopped at a light.
Applying the brakes short of lock, one wheel did lock up in on the wet road
and sent the truck sliding sideways down the road. It was a 3 lane road and
as I backed off of the brakes to regain control, I entered one of the 2
lanes
in the oncoming lane. There was only one car, a Volvo coming towards me in
the lane closest to me. Instead of moving to the other lane, he used his
horn
instead. After all he WAS driving a Volvo and it WAS his lane. At the last
minute
he moved over grudginly. The CCKW would have put his horn button up his A##
or I would have personally..... I recovered and got back into my lane and
stopped.
When you take a corner in the rain with a deuce, sometimes you get 'power
steering'
A mightly sick feeling...
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 6:42 AM
Subject: [MV] Wet pavement traction, deuce tires
>I have not seen any of the studies but I can give results of my personal
> study on the matter of traction on wet pavement and standard issue NDT
> tires
> on M35 with 90% tread, sudden stops on wet pavement can cause muscle
> contraction on part of driver that is next to seat, as rear of truck tries
> to get in front.
>
> Further when driven on hard packed clay roads -or wet gumbo- there is a
> definite side slip when mud is hard enough that tires cannot cut ruts in
> it.
>
> Never had enough nerve to drive fast on crooked road when pavement wet.
>
>
> Been there done that
>
> Everette
>
>
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