Intense Downgrade Experience for Trainee

I hope that this one goes into the right area for students primarily. I could have easily put this in the experienced driver side.

This is a Student facing a 5%. Not sure if it is his first downgrade. (Maybe...) Without giving away the situation, let's just leave it at the title, Intense Downgrade Experience for trainee. If you follow the trainee's body language you can see a stiff neck and particular the shaking hand followed by a fixed staring ahead. Trainer was all over it. Trainer was intense too, but I think for a moment it was really necessary to make this Downgrade work properly for Trainee.

(As a side note, engineers really want to make those 4ways obnoxious these days. I remember the old school slide toggle under the steering wheel for them, not so bad back then in them old days with the old signal box)

 

I did not know that.

Im sorry to learn of that. I don't follow channels other than Scottie67 of this Forum much on you tube. I'm actually not a big user of you tube. I have a channel as well related to organ work (Which is pretty crappy anyway as a deaf person) and you tube constantly stuffs so many random videos into it Im constantly cleaning up the messes.

I came across this one searching for downgrade wrecks from people who made some big mistakes or saved their rigs like a boss for a thread reply earlier tonight. And found this one, it has a good ending. Just intense there for a minute.

 

I did have a minor quibble about jacobs braking demanded by the trainer combined with the stab braking. I was thinking trainee maybe needed to learn how to place a engine brake into a situation where it will hold her all the way down with cold brakes conserved for when you really need it. I suppose I'll take the any gear in his situation as a win versus scratching a gear that will refuse it anyway all the way down without power to the drives.

Another thing was I was worried that trainee was not keeping a eye on his trailer the left rear in particular because you have a awful lot of traffic coming through at higher speeds. But for a first or nearly first run down I think trainee kept it together and will be ok with a few more before he hits the really big ones.