This is how you go down the Cabbage!

Black Butte Porter is better. Big Deschutes fan, here.

Oh, wanna challenge? 101,500 on Cabbage, both directions.

 

This is the first thing that you should expect on a long, steep downgrade: slow moving trucks. In your situation, with heavy traffic that is LIKELY to pin you into the slow lane, then the OBVIOUS choice would be to get into a gear and jake setting at a speed that you can easily control to come to a safe following distance behind a slow moving truck. The PAM'ster driver was oblivious to that possibility and nearly cost himself, yourself, and other citizens their life.

Probably he's doing a pretrip inspection and making sure they are properly inflated to 110 psi.

I prefer Polygamy Porter - "Why Just Have One?"

 

Yeah I think you missed the point. What I meant was if you gotta do it at 25-30, even slower, then that's what you do. Not 80.

 

well, Jr., let me tell you my exp., my grandfather taught me how to drive a boat when I was 5, by the time I was 7 I was loading it on the trailer while he stood on the tongue with the hook, of course that I was after I navigated it 3 miles from his dock to the ramp. By the time I was 12, he had me backing the empty trailer in the water when he thought the water was too rough for me to handle the boat. Oh, and I wasn't loading it on one of these modern sissy trailers with guide bars, I was loading a 19' Aristocraft onto an open trailer where my only guide point was the mast on the tongue with the hook, I couldn't see the rollers or the bunkers. Oh, and I learned to drive snowmobiles at age 6, and by age 8 I had my own fullsize RUPP snowmobile, that was not detuned, I would load/unload it on the trailer myself, to the point they would have to hide the keys otherwise I would try and take it out without them around. All this well before the minimum age to drive either of these vehicles.

My father, a former trucker, taught me how to drive. 2 weeks after I got my learners permit, my parents and I drove cross country, @ Thanksgiving, in a snowstorm, to pick up snowmobiles in Ohio and bring the out to Colorado. I drove 80% of the drive from Colo. to Ohio, and 50% of the drive back pulling that slightly overloaded trailer. 6 weeks later, I was learning how to pull a trailer over Berthoud Pass, in the winter, in the snow. By the time I got my drivers, I had 100x the required minimum hours of driving exp., I was the only one in my drivers ed. class who had driven in the mtn's, or the snow, or cross country, I was the only one in my class who had exp. pulling a trailer, and I had the most highway exp. of anyone. My father taught me to float the gears on an '87 Mazda pickup that I owned, so I had a new exp. when I went to CDL school.

Now, would you like to discuss exp.? I've probably run I-70 over Eisenhower and Vail more in the last 8 months than you have in the last 10 yrs, and I've probably run US 160 Wolf Creek Pass and US 550 in the winter more in the last 3 yrs than probably most of the 50 yr veteran drivers have. Now, do you still want to debate exp.? We can all sit here and toss about exp. all night long.

 

Oh yeah? Really think you're something??? Did you do it while eating an ice cream cone? Holding it in the left hand, not the right either.......

 

Nope, I was holding it with my foot, while combing my hair with my right hand, brushing my teeth with my left hand, and steering with Mr. Happy.

 

You. Are. A. God.

 

Your on. Beerfest in Bend this weekend. When isn't there a beer fest. Ran a super b train from redmond to la grande usually 104-105 both ways.

 

done that a few times. hauling to and from portland.

 

almost 500k on my Volvo and not one check engine light