Keeping RPM's down on downgrade

Because of all those morons who pull into the Arrowhead Travel Plaza with a brake b que.

 

I am assuming in company training you will learn how to properly go down hills and stuff?

 

Read the op again. Does it sound like his training was sufficient?

 

He was taught in a old mack. When redline them days was 1200.

 

Now I've never had the pleasure of owning an old Mack. But I certainly had my fair share of old engines. 71 series Detroits wouldn't go down the road if you didn't keep it above 1800. Screamin greenies.

 

That was a little humor. I don't know anything about the old trucks either. I started driving in 2000, the oldest trucks i've driven were a 92 mack dump truck, 89 pete pulling end dump. 96 t600 long haul flat. Everything else has been 2000 or newer.

 

Well he didn't mention anything about his training or company so I dunno. I am hoping the company I choose will teach me how to go down steep grades safely.

 

They should, hopefully. When I worked at Stevens, we learned how to descend hills without jake brakes because our trucks back then didn't have jake brakes, lol. I descend hills the same way, but put the engine brake to work.

 

That's why those old Greyhound buses sounded like the engine was going to blow any minutes.

 

Probably will be "discussed" in orientation. What you will need is a trainer that isn't just interested in his miles with the second log book on the truck...and is willing to actually teach you what is really going on out here! Now the big question...is your eventual trainer going to know anything in order to teach it?