Provided the truck driver knows to downshift before descending a long steep hill.
Here is my little story, in HS took my Sport Fury to the drag strip, the brake fade made me think I was going to run out of road before I got slow enough for the turn at the end of the shutdown lane.
Those class 7 and 8 trucks are rapidly adopting air DISC brakes
Please accept that drums are outdated, @Old-Days-Rick
Jack Welch was a martinet who nearly destroyed a great company. If I ever met him I’d spit in his face.
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I gave away my brake lathe a few years ago.
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Our old Ammco lathe at work still sees a lot of use
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Absolutely not. Drum brakes are just getting started. Economy, performance, durability and efficiency.
Here is a Top Experts take on the matter. I believe we are seeing the renaissance of drums to be honest.
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@Old-Days-Rick Here’s something to consider . . .
your strange infatuation with drum brakes is only “liked” by one particular regular 
To start with, the guy in the video is young enough to theoretically be MY kid
And he’s filming it in in what looks to be his garage
Never heard of this guy, either
I’m NOT impressed with what I saw
Its not a strange infatuation, its just something I prefer that also happens to be a more efficient mechanism.
If no one agreed with me, so be it. I stand alone many times, it doesn’t bother me and as a truth sayer I have gotten used to it!
The guy in the video is a knowledgeable individual, he may be young, but the kid is sharp as they say. I suspect he has studied engineering. He states many facts. Irrefutable facts actually.
I believe he is a truth sayer.
He is from cross the pond and they have such analytical minds over there and really analyze things to the 9th degree I find it hard to understand how it can be so easily discounted.
So . . . unless I’m mistaken, you’re implying Americans aren’t as knowledgeable as this guy
congratulations for insulting your fellow citizens
As opposed to the rest of us, who are apparently lying like a rug?
Well done, Rick 
. . . that was sarcasm
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I’m also growing skeptical of the “not what you say but how you present it” argument.
There’s ony so many ways one can state truths such as “the grass is green”, or, “fire is hot”.
It’s noT “how we’re saying it” that bothers some folks (on CarTalk Community and out in the real world), it’s hearing the truth and facts that gets to them.
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I am saying that the Germans are known for engineering vehicles. Look at the Audi UFO brake, they basically tried to make a disc brake into a drum brake, to get the best of both worlds i suppose. No American company would ever do that save for GM prior to the mid 70s.
Pontiac and John Delorean were visionaries. Look up the Pontiac 8 lug drum brake, the greatest braking mechanism ever put in production as far as Im concerned.
American companies only care about profit now, innovation is dead. We now must rely on Toyota and VW amd other assorted German brands to innovate. Then we mimic their design.
That was my point.
With all due respect, you desperately need to work on your social skills
You’re really rubbing people the wrong way
And not just a few people, either
We keep telling you this
Maybe you should take a break and accept you’ve got to change your approach
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This is so spot on. I run into this stuff everyday.
I do realize as a truth sayer that I need to lead by example. It is a cross we must bear as the scrutiny we are constantly under is tiring.
I make one misstep in what I say at home or at work and they come at me like pirahnas. Its honestly getting tiring. All for stating matters of fact usually.
I guess the only alternative is to “make nice” and give it up and subscribe to alternative truths.
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Rick:
I correct a typo:
It’s “now” - It’s NOT “how we’re saying it”.
I’m 55, presently not working, and my typing skills, on desktop keyboard as well as on mobiles, have gone down the tollet.
No wonder some get annoyed by me on here - it’s all the typos!
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Such as:
Posted speed limits are minimums, not maximums.
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Your typing skills aren’t the only ones to have gone here 
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I know your post was a joke, but if “G o d” wanted this much flexibility with the truth, he would have given us the “Ten Suggestions…” 
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But it does reflect how most drivers, that I have witnessed around me on expressways and some local roads, regard speed limits.
To keep up, for example, with even the slowest driver on I95 in a 55mph zone, I have to do 60. Never mind the fastest drivers.
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The tire pressure placard is good until you replace your tires with substantially different tires from OEM. The original tires on my new truck were cheap Goodrich tires with a maximum tire pressure of 35 PSI and a maximum load capacity that was about 1000 lbs LESS than the truck’s gross vehicle weight capacity. The tires didn’t even last 20,000 miles. I made sure that my replacement tires could actually carry what the truck itself was rated for, the replacement tires had to be inflated to 44 PSI to carry what the truck was rated for. Granted, this was the first time I’ve seen such tires.
Was that 44psi also the maximum inflation indicated on the replace tires sidewall, or calculated from tables?