Going down the grades HEAVY

I just used my brakes, they never smoked. the Stevens way.

 

I recall one time when a team of women driving for u.s. express were full smoked as they pulled into the rest stop on mt. ash land in the siskiyous
n.I-5 in oregon right where the grade leveled out and was a smooth ride to port of entry. years later they closed that rest stop after a truck W/fullysmoked brakes could not stop as it barrelled through killing a few people. "No more speed i'm almost there... gota keep cool now gotta take care"

 

An old man told me one time, you will go down that hill and around that curve too slow every time, but you'll only do it once too fast.:smt045

 

the generic info in my CDL guide says "a lower gear than you climbed the hill in" but why the heck would the other side be the SAME degree angle as the side of approach?

 

ahh haa the #'s were left out of it. now it makes alot more sense

 

I just let the tranny take me down the hill, pop it into a gear that gets me down the hill "quickly" and safely. If that means dropping it 5 gears so be it. Better then brakes fading out, then no way to stop in an emergency.

 

This would be for the 10 speeds out there...I was also told take your 10 deduct the grade % and that = your gear to be in 10-6=4th gear. I always just followed the one gear lower then you climbed with and then used slight and steady pressure on the brake all the way down the mountain, never had any issues, other then Supertruckers cussing at me on the CB cuz they want to go faster down the mountain and when they come around a corner and I am sittin there blowing bubbles at 25mph, it just upsets them. What I like about CB's though, is the off switch...