Wouldn’t we all have liked to drive on these roads?
oh yes please 
i’d lose my trailor off the cliff i bet.
The old trucker used his noddle on that one.
I wonder if he/she meant to go that way or it was a result of a wrong turn?
Looked a bit like the St.Bernard pass in Italy
Not st bernard, wasn’t st bernard, swiss, I went that way many times and it was’nt that bad, was it mt cenis? harry!!
Sorry I ment San Bernardino, 30 years of confusion.
It reminds me of when I used to run up from Barrow (■■■■■■■ to Millom for my last drop, the road wasnt as bendy but it was defantly as narrow you used to scan across the valley to see what was coming at you to time your passing places, Great fun back then wouldn’t want to do it now.
dieseldog6:
Not st bernard, wasn’t st bernard, swiss, I went that way many times and it was’nt that bad, was it mt cenis? harry!!!
It doesn’t look like the Cenis to me ,diesel ; altho that truck was certainly empty . So it could be ‘The Steps .’ The terrain is certainly similar & empty fridges going to Italy for peaches would go that way. Last I heard there was a 19t limit so its poss. Its a Dutch website & the clip is German . The reason I’m not sure is that if it Cenis then its certainly been smartened up since I went over there & if it is that truck is Italy bound simply because he’s going downhill .
Here is the latest snap of the steps . it really has changed !!LOL
Have just decided that it can only be The Steps with those granite posts at the cliff edge .
In 1991 I took the wrong turn in a draw-bar outfit transiting Swiss once (not paying attention). By the time I realised, I was driving passed Bern and thought, WTF.
Anyway, I pulled over and checked the map. I estimated it would take me 4hrs driving just to get to where I should have been at that moment. The map said, if I keep going along this motorway until it runs out, I can continue on a national road and cross into Italy via Simplon. A6-N6-N19-N9
OK go for it I thought. And did. Phew. Big mistake. The road included Grimsel Passhohe. I got to the top of the world and came to a plateau with a fancy restaurant, large parking area and views to live for. I turned this bend at the end of this parking area and stopped dead. NO WAY.
What I was looking at was a very steep road, filled with winding sharp U turns chiseled out the side of a cliff. Shear drop. I looked at the map again, got even more depressed and thought F it. I went for it and survived to tell the tail. The road down that cliff was a nightmare. I remember having this stupid grin on my face, laughing, sweating, panicking and one hand on an open drivers door.
Never again. I even freak out every time I come out the tunnel at Nantua.
the more i look at it the more i think its the grimsel. ive been over it load of times and that clip rings a bell with me at the place where the coach comes past.
Huh, you could get a bus through that gap 
r slicker:
the more i look at it the more i think its the grimsel. ive been over it load of times and that clip rings a bell with me at the place where the coach comes past.
I don’t think you’ve been over the Grimsal loads of times unless you were in a car bud and if you’d even been over it once, you would know the road in the vid is too wide, too busy, has room for artic’s to use and is on the side of a steep hill with plenty of rocks to crash into,(if you want). Grimsel is a shear, near cliff. Nothing to stop you going straight over, not even a white line.
You’d never negotiate the bends in an artic on the Grimsel or any truck attempting to go up. It is too steep. When I foolishly tried going down, I was in second gear low range all the way down, foot on the exhaust most of the time. I used up every inch of road in a draw-bar. An artic would need more room on every bend and would have either fell off at the first twist or rolled it when his trailer wheels didn’t make the bend.
I honestly expected to be arrested in the town at the bottom for attempting it. Previously on the way up the mountain, I had passed several sign posts saying, at first. No caravans and then, no camping trailers. I figured I’m not a caravan and I’m not pulling a camping trailer, so bolox.
dindnt say i had been over in a truck did i ■■ 
look at my location in italy. i use the simplon or grimsel when going home
99% now though its the simplon.although i have met 1 of federichi’s on the grimsel before now. you can get through like you said. it would be tight in a arctic but do able.
At least you all had brakes 
this guy does Grimsell Pass on Rollerskates,
and going so fast the camera motorbike behind is squealing its tyres 
The road in that vid isn’t the one I went on. Not unless it’s been seriously upgraded in the last 18yrs, it’s even got barriers.
I just had a shufty on google maps and the bit I’m on about is as the road just drops and bends as you come into Gletsch. Like I said earlier, it was 1991. I expect much has changed since then. It was a barsteward as far as I remember and I’ve not been back since.
I reckon the bearings could be a bit warm on them skates
I’m outa breath with that last one !!
And looking at snaps of the the Grimsell it would appear to be the same terrain & road markings as the one in the truck pic. So Cenis is out .
PS . worked in & out of Swiss for many years & this is the first time I have heard of it & I certainly never been over it. I have done Gotthard before they had a tunnel . It was limited to a 3t load & some of the road was dirt track. Good fun but the altitude made yer nose bleed.
harry:
I’m outa breath with that last one !!
And looking at snaps of the the Grimsell it would appear to be the same terrain & road markings as the one in the truck pic. So Cenis is out .
PS . worked in & out of Swiss for many years & this is the first time I have heard of it & I certainly never been over it. I have done Gotthard before they had a tunnel . It was limited to a 3t load & some of the road was dirt track. Good fun but the altitude made yer nose bleed.
That’s what I thought I remembered about my excursion. The dirt road, hard packed sand and gravel, or whatever it was they were using. The road in the skater vid has been upgraded big time. I don’t remember the tunnel either.