8% grade

Where you trying to drive up mount everest?

 

Lol, man it was terrible.

I knew trucks wasn't even supposed to be in that area when one of the locals told me that alot of places refuse to deliver there.

But I work for Swift, they'll send you anywhere and pay you your measly .36 CPM lol

 

Sounds like my days at USX. You can only rely on the Atlas to a certain extent after you get close to the destination you are at the mercy of the dispatchers.

 

Think my steepest was 9% in central pa us30.

Anyone know what the grade is on the hill coming out of us pipe in Lynchburg Virginia is? That sucker is steep with a stop light at the very top.

 

Don't believe everything you read on here. Do the math on how tall a mountain has to be for a 21 percent grade 3 miles long and tell me how likely it is that a company chose the highest point in the state to build a plant or warehouse.

Fyi, that's a drop of 3326.6 ft. In a state that has its highest point at 4393.

Do steep drops exist. Absolutely. But for very short amounts. That hill in sf being an example. A road trucks aren't allowed on btw. Us 250 in wv has a 14% grade but it's only half a mile long. If that. In 20 years of driving that one was the highest that sticks out in my mind, but only cause it had a blind horseshoe curve halfway down. I was more worried about meeting a truck trying to come up at the same time. Out on the big road 8 and make US routes, you won't find anything worse than 8 or 9. But 8 with 80k lbs is bad enough you won't want anything else.

Now if you get off road like the loggers do, well that's a different story.

 

Try PA route 645. From the truck stop in Frystown on 78, just go North on 645. It is restricted to 102" trailers, but tankers run it a lot. Going north isn't so bad, it's only 14% with gentle curves at the bottom. Come south from Pine Grove though, it's 14% , 1 1/2 miles with a very tight horseshoe curve at the almost bottom. And a house on said corner. I've often wondered how many people have hit that sucker.

 

Thompson Pass... 2800" to sea level, and toss in a couple good curves on the descent.

 

I live pretty close to the City. San Francisco has some major freeways that aren't steep like this. That beer truck probably went down a No Truck route. It looks like it's probably in the Russian Hill area, or somewhere close to North Beach. Not all the hills are that steep in SF, a lot of the downtown area is flat. South San Francisco, the industrial area, is pretty flat as well. There's only a few areas that are full of steep hills, those are mostly residential areas actually.

 

Check slack adjusters and or keep your brain on the feel of those brakes man!

Mine went just slightly out of adjustment recently and I caught it fast....just that little bit of slack was enough that would have been a big problem on some PA roads had I let it go.

My biggest was 14% in PA.

A lot of 9% in PA.....like everywhere! LOL.