This is how you go down the Cabbage!

It's a toponym (oronym to be specific)...

 

We are taught to go the slowest you can go down mountains, to me it down right dumb to do 45-50 even if you feel you can. My uncle had his breaks worked on before he headed down a mountain one time, they only did one side he said and he is here today to tell about it because he did not put him and others in danger at a (COMFORTABLE SPEED). There is a saying for that, "Play around with fire and you will get burned."

 

I go down cabbage twice a week, and I only go as fast as my jakes will hold me. Sometimes that's 35 mph, sometimes it's 58 mph.

If you're light and road conditions are good, there's no real reason to crawl down a grade if you're comfortable with your truck's capabilities.

 

it's not 55 for trucks. it's variable pending on your gross weight. sign says 18 mph if your grossed out. 35 mph for trucks weighing 60 - 65.

40 mph grossed out works just perfect for most of us. not that 18 mph crap.

why everyone thinks that hill is worth talking about on a monthly basis. i don't see what the big deal is.

on the east side of my home city is a mountain called parleys. it eats cabbage for dinner. and comes with a LOADED truck speed of 40 mph. yet, it's NEVER been talked about.

 

Going down fast even if your comfortable with it is a bad idea. Around that corner could be the abominable snowman. You have to be prepared to stop. Doing 58 down that hill and not being able to stop is reckless. Going over monarch pass with my first load of cows with roads snowy & wet was an experience. But I had both my friends hauling cows with me and they talked me thru it (down hill part) and I barely used my brakes. I went over it a few more times hauling cows and I didn't need to touch my brakes at all. I usually pull flatbed though. I was driving for my buddy for a bit hauling cows. So I have been over just about everything execpt wolf creek pass.

 

See, if you did it Bandit's way, you'd be backwards dragging your feet

 

Sometimes, that's the best way to do it, an exp. driver to talk you down it.

A thought, two weeks ago we ran some containers up to Avon, Co. The last one, I had to drop and bobtail back to Denver. Top of Genesse, Mr. CSP was sitting on the entrance ramp, speed limit is 45 mph for vehicles with a GVWR over 26,000 lbs. As I passed him, I was going about 50 mph in the center lane, however, in the right lane was a loaded truck, doing 55 mph and not making an effort to slow down. As per habit, I watched that trooper in my mirror and saw him come rolling down that entrance ramp. For about 2 miles he straddled the right and center lane, never once attempting to pass that other truck. About the midway point he hit his lights and pulled the guy over, it took him more than a mile to get that truck safely stopped on the shoulder. I'm quite certain his brakes were warm, and I'm sure after that trooper got done with him, his whole body was a little warm.

 

I used to pull over right away whenever I got pulled over. Nowadays I think about it especially on hills. My friend son was coming up over a hill and there were two cops and an ambulance at a wreck. Nobody said anything on the cb or were there signs out to give warning. He drove off the road to not run into cop cars and ambulance and rolled his loaded truck.