Camry brakes

Sometimes I read complaints about Camry brakes. This past week, I was drving over a freeway overpass, apx. 35 - 40 mph, ('94 4 cyl. Camry, disk front, drum rear, recently flushed the brake fluid, regularly use the parking brake so the rears stay adjusted, check the tire inflation weekly, ) when a large truck pulled out in front of my path with really not enough time to clear, but made it with just a small amount of clearance, then a large van pulled out immediately behind the first truck - don't know what he was thinking - clearly not enough room/ time to avoid collision with the front of my car - I never use "panic" braking, always "press" the brake pedal, not "hit" it, have no ABS, so this was the first time I "locked up" the brakes, as soon as the tires chirped, I released pressure slightly, to regain steering control while swerving. Must have stopped a good twelve feet short of impact (van just kept on going). My passenger was shaken up, but the brakes seemed to work just fine to me.