well im heading out with a mentor

Good luck! Practice the SMITH System..

 

what's that?.....just kidding. Don't worry Falcon, just enjoy the scenery. on my first run last week I had to go up and down Monteagle with 76,000 pounds- the hardest part was going up a mountain during rush hour in chatanooga. What a trip!

 

Monteagle is just a hill. What are you going to do when you get in the mountains?

 

no worries in the near future, i'll only be running the little mountains east of the mississippi

 

Most of the time that I ran Monteagle I was grossed out and would manage to get behind a slow moving RV that would make me grab a gear before I wanted. I did run it once when I had 10,000 in the box and I thought I had a fast truck! I was blowing drivers doors off!

 

tell me about it. On the way up i had a few plasma t.v.'s in the box, and i'm like man this easy. What a difference on the way back with a van stuffed with recycled paper!!

 

Oh heck I can't remember the exact road but it was in PA and I was heading south on it.. I was new to trucking at the time and was following that stupid trip routing they give you.. I was loaded with rolls of paper if I remember right it was just over 79,000 Lbs... It was a small 2 lane road heading into the mountains and it was late at night.. Fog started in and got really think could not see more then 10-15 feet in front of me.. The hill was so bad (or my truck was really week lol) I had to go all the way down to first gear to climb this hill.. Didn't matter because I could not see anyways.. One of those things that you will never forget...

Oh and I also blew a steer tire in the gorge, That SUCKED and was one of the scariest moments of my life.. kept it off the wall and got it under control. I think the trucks behind me was just as scared as I was because I was all over the place.. Nothing I could do but go with it and hope it would not roll.. If I didn't have 2 hands on the wheel I know it would of been bad. After it blew the front of the truck jumped a good 4-5 feet to the left before I even knew what was happening...