Anyone had to use a runaway truck ramp?

The mountain that he was coming off of is a lot higher than the hill in Iowa.
“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” John 8.7

 

Come on guys. You always like to take a simple thread to the next freakin level. From what I took this is a basic downhill thread on normal conditions. We are in the month of May.
Give the guy basic survival techniques
Know your route and possible down grades
Check your brake adjustments and look for potential problems.
You want all brakes working in synch and same pressure
Use correct gear and jakes going down hill where jakes will keep truck at steady rpm- rain will absolutely not cause jackknife on slow moving truck that is going down grade with a load on the drives.
Automatic trucks, I know nothing about.

 

You still use brake pressure going down a steep grade. Many of the ones I haul on, My jake without touching a brake will have me in the low side at 12 mph or less, I would be a hazard going that slow.
I am not saying to blast down the mountain, but you have to get from point a to point b eventually without lining trucks up behind you.

 

That bad??!
Is this a newer truck?
I can run a long stretch in 7 high with a 18 speed and cat and maintain rpm without touching brakes maxed out.
Eh, maybe I’ll do a hard snub or 2 haha

 

Different grades, were not talking interstate, but same principle. The newer cummins jakes do hold a lot more, but then again it is expensive pulling a cummins out and replacing with a cat, and that is what a lot of guys has been doing after 3 years or so, so I will just stick with my lil kitty. lol

 

10-4 on the different grades

 

I put my 330 some odd Cat against a vermont 20+% once. She pulled it. 3 mile one hour and 15 minute pull straight up full up at 80000 with hardwood furniture from Ethan Allen at the canadian border in extreme NE. Im actually surveying route 105 from time to time looking for that hill as their logging operation 15 minutes west of there is still up and running. It was about a 1992 cat. Took her about 2 hours for the gauges to come off all of their pegs back to normal. Its definitely off interstate.

I call it my mystery hill. Hard to find. Many here tease me about it calling it a lunch counter story. But sooner or later it's going to be solved.

 

Ah, anything over 20% we back up, it is faster, but we don't haul them little loads either. lol

All jokes aside. I have seen thousands of signs saying for trucks to use a lower gear. I have only ever seen one that says for trucks to use their lowest gear. lol It is on a little backroad in northern alberta, that I hear some folks use to miss some scales on.

 

The problem with this (and why light steady pressure is no longer recommended,) is that it easy to get uneven braking levels and overheat some of the brakes. Upping the pressure into 20-30psi range mostly eliminates this problem.