In my Cascadia, I typically just set the cruise "overspeed limiter" to where I want it, it will normally hold me there on most grades. I recently took US-33 through WV and VA, and consequently took about 18 months off my lifespan. It would be a great road for a Kawasaki Ninja, or Mazda Miata. Not so much in a big truck. I spent more time on the jakes in a few hours than I did in the past two months. But yeah, not going into the hill too fast at the start, and judicious use of the three stages of jakes.
What's really a good time, is hitting a bump for the first time and the jakes engaging themselves, killing cruise. I thought I broke the brand new truck....lol
down shifting on a downgrade
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Did you look at 33 on a map before you went that way?
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I'm pretty sure, at least I thought so, that seeing a spaghetti noodle like this on a map would tend to discourage big truck drivers from going that way.
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