driving down mountains in truck has no engine brake,how to handle that

LOL...once you get off the pavement things are all the same no matter whose name is on the door.
I miss it...well, sometimes I miss it.

 

Im not much, but I like to think I can still take some of these whipper snappers. If you are going to fight, you have to have a heart for it. And so it will be a force in your favor. I witnessed a few oldsters able to protect themselves when necessary and asked one he ok? Sure. When you get to where I am pain is not a problem anymore. In those days you could take medicine or drink prior to the CDL Years.

But I do not have any illusions due to advancing age. It's a destructive process as far as I am concerned.

 

Sounds like you've never experienced driving an old truck without a Jake

 

What kind of BS company, in 2022, is specing trucks without jakes? And then sending their drivers through the mountains, no less.

 

Companies who operate in the flat lands. I got hired by prairie carrier to run in NW Ontario, no Jake’s and was running nickel ore on A-trains 140,000 gross 7% grades 5 miles long and this was only 25 years ago.
Not my truck, not my problem and i dont have to buy the brake hardware