Driving in slippery conditions city hills..

I used to drive down cabbage hill on 84 in Oregon when I was hauling produce during blizzard conditions all you got to do is drive real slow

 

Like @rabbiporkchop said, slow down. Leave extra space in front to get stopped if you have to. And drive on.

 

On straight away you can drive 100 miles an hour on a solid sheet of ice but when you hit a curve you better be doing 30 to 35 miles an hour

 

Everybody will tell you to slow down and take it easy. Now the fact you have(going to have) a automatic truck, it's easier than manual. It down shifts faster and less worrying about looking at the dash/cluster or shifter etc, or missing the gear. But put the truck in Manual mode and find the gear safe for you, if you think 9th feels safe grab 8th. The saying goes you can only come down a hill too fast one time especially in winter.



If you have ever been up,the Lincoln memorial hill in Laramie wy, I had to stop because of a jack knifed truck. Once I stopped my truck decided to,turn into a sled and slide backwards normally I'd rather jack knife backwards rather than hit someone's front end. As I got my truck into a 45 degree angle it stopped sliding. I jumped out within two minutes grabbed my chains threw them behind my drives rolled onto them buttened them up and I smashed the throttle lol. Jesus take the wheel. Barely got it rolling but once I started digging into the ice and started grabbing I was out of there before the sht show got worse..There is some advice in this story and a lesson to learn haha.

 

@S M D , do you recall that big pile up in Wyoming some years back in the winter? Trucks jack knifed, shiny side down all over the place.

 

I was hammering down trying to get ahead of everybody on interstate 80 west of Rawlins and as soon as I passed all the guys going slow the wreck happened about 5 minutes behind me. I made it to my destination in California all in one piece but lots of guys didn't make it.
There was lots of debris on the return trip still laying in the middle of the interstate...


="lots of character, post: 4738053, member: 168788"]@S M D , do you recall that big pile up in Wyoming some years back in the winter? Trucks jack knifed, shiny side down all over the place.[/QUOTE]
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So situational dependant....

Just be carefull, sometimes the de-accell you give it can mess you up..

Im one of the slow/extra carefull guys, and that isnt always optimal...
I try to really KNOW the truck/trailer also...find the braking and power limits etc etc...the more information you have the better..

When I did the North Dakota thing, I was pulling hills like that at night in unfamiliar territory, I was terrified i wasnt going to make it up all the time...A supertrained x military/blackwater driving coach told me that if i have the turbos spooled up, im in the right gear, i will make it...I dont know how scientific that was, but i didnt have any problems in the 4 months i was pullin them hills everynight..

It makes a difference when Im doing 45 and scared in a old beat up w900 , and then some sob in a brand new western star passes me doing 80, lol...

I had to cowboy up for it...But that inched me closer and closer to confidence all the time...

 

I would hate to drive in/around Pittsburgh following a significant snow, with an automatic. I guess in an auto, like was mentioned, you'll just need to take it slow and let [and trust] the truck/tranny do what it thinks it needs to do, and in many cases, I'd be learning quickly how to switch to manual mode and going down in the gear/speed I wanted to go down in.

"I'll take manual tranny's for a hundred, Alex. You can keep your auto"

 

Drove up it in blizzard conditions too.