Excessive Overspeed?

If you got a big enough hill with a straight run out you can put her into neutral and allow gravity to float you to about 140 or so given a long enough 5% as we did a few times. ZOOM. 140 is where the gravity's pull quits and stabilizes for the rest of the way down.

Some companies in the past would fire instantly if they caught me at 70 or beyond no ifs buts or maybes. So when you put away Fancy Gap at 68 riding the brakes most of the way down... they wonder what you are doing to them.

Even near the end of my time OTR they were beginning to monitor braking. If someone was setting up a insurance scam and you tossed out a anchor and then forced the truck across half the interstate and most of the shoulder to get around not to hit the idiot I hope you have a dash cam to at least protect your job showing him the aggressor.

 

Speed monitoring or not, speed kills. Especially going down a grade

 

140mph. I need to try that. Only been 106 downhill racing.

 

Since they turned the trucks up, normal overspeed doesn't really exist, so the dbl's don't focus on it as much . Those little bits going down hill barely will gwt the overspeed to 1-2%, not enough to pop on anyone's screen.

The second reason is the amts - guys don't understand how to use the engine brake/cruise/manual mode so they only put the engine brake on low so it doesn't downshift them and away they go.

Finally, its piss poor training. If you have a pulse, we pass you. Itsbgotten that bax.

 

I virtually guarantee he didn't.

I had my first heavily loaded (79.99999999999999 k) trip through New river Gorge today. I was surprised how fast the amt picks up speed going downhill. I had to work a lot harder with it than with a manual transmission .

 

70 is all for me.

 

i started putting it in N for downhills, nobody can catch me, i get halfway up the next hill without touching the throttle, great for MPGs too