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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Was driving s/b Deerfoot today around McKnight - saw a pickup truck just lose it. Guy didn't appear to be doing anything wrong - one minute he was going straight the next minute he was doing a 360 across all lanes of Deerfoot. That of course led to others slipping and sliding. Amazingly with about 5 or 6 cars all sliding completely out of control no one hit each other. They just all seemed to go exactly in the right place.
Scared the holy hell out of me though.
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his mistake was not having any weight in his bed (or not enough of it). an empty pickup bed is so light that there is almost zero traction on the rear tires, and on ice that back end will swing out with no effort. there's a reason you see so many trucks with cinder blocks or other heavy objects in the back at this time of year