Failure to obey signage in PA

Learn the mountain with shifting. You do not want to run into that ever again.

Never mind those tickets, they will turn up somewhere you can count on that. You need to have that thing in gear any way you can get it. And stay in it.

When you have the feel of the situation later in your experience you will begin to stop crawling, then walking and finally run.

The good thing is we are out of winter. This is the time to learn before next.

 

It won't show up on your mvr probably because you have a Illinois license. It doesn't show up on a non commercial license in Pa They seem to put out such bad information. Let the company know as stated before improve your shifting skills that is more important.

 

Never ever shift going down a mountain. Luckily you got it back into gear.

 

That is the one thing really, don't take her out of gear.

Ive told stories in the past taking my truck out of gear downgrade on certain hills and that gravity gets ahold of it. Balancing out roughly 140-150 mph It's beyond safe engineering for tires, wheels everything. Those days and the associated stories did happen when they did as part of my trainer teaching me mountain possibilities. Sort of we already been falling off this one so it cant be that bad to be that runaway now ... Throw me into the water and hope I swim. Might as well.

Even on upgrades when they are steep enough you leave her in gear in such a engine speed RPM in which she is between torque and sweet spot high horse power but nowhere near the redline burning out the Pyrometer among other risks.

Sometimes on snow deep enough if you shifted out of a range bound 200 rpm apart you will spin or slide the drives and gravity and terrain will put you into the ditch before you can get another gear.

All of that is based on keeping that drive line and wheels/tires working under the engine itself. Connected. Sometimes that is very good. Called "Keeping power to the drives" if it is forward power or actually a form of braking power."

Im not here to lecture. It's good you are going to get all of this out of your hair before the next big mountain. Because if something does not get into gear then.. well.. nice knowing you. Hope you are in a good place to die. As in pretty landscape., (Slight teasing)

 

Unless he did a inspection nothing should show up. I got popped on a 102” restricted road. I have no violations since 2011 on my mvr. Was ticketed in 2012.

 

Wrong!!!!

You better know how to downshift going down a hill or mountain and as soon as you realize you're in too high a gear, brake, drop the rpms and slam it into a lower gear.

 

I was thinking the same, good to know what to do in the situation instead of being a sitting duck.

When you find yourself in a gear too high. You keep her in gear and use the brake so you don’t have to brake as hard as neutral would be free rolling some engine brake is better than none. Then while still holding the brake with your right foot heel you attempt to shift left foot on clutch and right toe on throttle. With enough practice it becomes instinct. OP you should find short steep grades to practice this method on. Something like a 1 mile 5% grade.

 

Rule of thumb has always been go down hill in the same gear as you would need to have to go up it.
It is better to go down too slow than too fast, and you should be in the lower gear at the top. That is why many hills require a stop at the top. You pull out already in a lower gear and maintain it.
You can go down a lot of hills too slow, but only one too fast!
Also, hard, long term downhill braking overheats brakes. That's why you couldn't get slowed down. Better to lightly ride the brakes when speed increases, and then release to let them cool, and let engine brake hold you back.