My first runs over Donner in the 90s were in a Cornbinder cabover with no Jake brake. I was going slower than most of the other trucks but I made it down and I thought it was pretty it was easy. They even had signs telling the truckers what to do, like "upgrade ahead, crank it up" or something like that.
Wolf Creek I was a little nervous about after hearing all of the horror stories but again, I started in a gear low enough and had no problem. I think that running a truck without a Jake for the first few years of my driving career really improved my skills and I think all drivers should be trained and actually go down a big hill without using their engine brakes.
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I remember as a kid going over the pass with my parents on one of their monthly trips to Reno. It wasn't unusual to take 8 hours to get from Reno down to Sacramento, and this was in the summer. Get behind a few of the trucks of the time and you were in for a slow ride. The interstate there wasn't opened over Donner until somewhere around 1963-64.
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