Truck Parking

Interstate standards is 7% grade and a curvature safe for 70 mph back when the Father of the Interstate Highway Esienhower built our Nation. Off Interstate are grades everywhere on whatever mountain up to and including those extremes. I think there is a Ethan Allen Furnature store in extreme NW Vermont literally against the fence of the canada customs house on the line to get a trailer. That one is at the bottom of a 21 or 24% 3 mile straight pull. I had a 350 cat that needed 3 hours before all the gauges returned to green after that pull as slow as a man could crawl.... Very extreme. Many mountain roads around the USA are steep if not steeper in places.

Some roads around the USA specifically BAN trucks because truckers have fallen off them and died trying to say bypass the main I40 scale in Arizona at 8000 feet for example.

My head is full of mountain. My instructors in the 80's discovered I had a death fear of hills, big hills so they spent 4 months hammering me on hills until I made them my specialty.

I live on flat land here, bored bored bored. No hills big enough to tilt my world. I need that.

 

There's an app called Park My Truck developed by the Truck Parking Leadership Initiative that will soon be released. Supposedly it will help you find the closest available parking for your truck. It could be worth looking into.

 

That app is going to have to include a Bear Sniffer. Being able to park somewhere without Bears bothering you is very important. I know a bunch of spots but I will have to check a number of them on google earth to see if they are still valid, and add them to that app.

See? Im still worth something in my dinosaur days.

 

How is the back of your trailer ever more than maybe 75 feet or so away from you? You do know if it says 31% that means for every 100 feet forward you travel you will descend 31 feet.

 

Thank you once again for the clarification, Ive been wrestling with this problem of perception.

30% is a hell of a angle. Take a 75 foot truck The trailer will be close to 30 feet above or below. You are correct.

The problem I have is this.

34 feet up in height, most people freeze because right about there is a known situation exploited by Airborne troops in training used to induce fear at that exact height off towers built just that high for the purpose. When you are up front and looking down or looking up at the end of your rig it's a incredible sight.

Im not much for precision, when it comes to writing and I depend on people such as yourself to straighten things out when necessary.

Thank you kindly.

 

Hell, even at a 6% downgrade if that trailer is pushing you faster and you are in a truck with a weak jake, that trailer suddenly looks huge as it pushes you down the grade

 

You probably won't find parking at either of those anyway unless you get there before noon.

I'd contact the guy with the gravel lot.