screeeeech.......what, no bang?

Close call going into work today (last nite, whenever)...I had just exited the highway and was behind a box truck, who was behind a semi with no trailor. About 1/2 from the exit off teh highway there is a traffic light at a fairly large intersection, two 4-lanes(each direction) cross. I wasn't tail gating the boxer at all, but I was just far enough behind to where I couldn't see the traffic light. I was already out of the gas with my foot hovering over the brake 'just in case' as I normally do for intersetions (this one is also at the bottom of a small decline). As soon as I entered the intersection I notice my light is red...oh jeeze. Split-second time, do or die. So I slam on the brakes with all my might...only the second panic stop I've done in that truck. I immediatly looked un into my rear view as there was this Impala that was following a bit too close. Either they saw the light or seomthing, cause they had backed off. Surprisingly it was very anticlimatic. Now the ABS wire is cut going to my RF wheel (don't ask why....long story), so I was fully expecting that wheel to lock up. Sure enough, it did, but not till the very end of my stop. The thing I had noticed the most on all the new cars I've test driven is how good the brakes are...tight, good response, and quick...of course, all the recent new cars I've driven have four wheel discs. Given the circumstances, the truck preformed a lot better then I was fearing. I stopped well short of hitting oncoming traffic and was able to back up almost to the stop line (which is illegal, I know). Heck, nothing even flew about teh cabin liek I was expecting. I think the new tires helped a lot. Thier wide contact patch made all teh more wider by goign downhill and by braking just grabbed the road and whoaed me right on down. It's a good thing I'm not having to buy two cars now, one for me, one to replcae my fuck up.