Jake brake etiquette

So you ride your brakes all the way down, but they're the morons?

 

Where did I ever say anyone was a moron?

 

Those that cannot descend a hill without a Jake brake, could be called morons though. Part of knowing how to drive is knowing how to drive when something goes haywire, such as a Jake brake not working.

 

I've lived near the highway all my life, and been in and around trucks since the day I was born. I don't mind the sound of a muffled jake, it's the straight pipes that pizz me off. if ya gotta have them to be some kind of super truckin' hero, use respect. I'm a heavy hauler, and I always use my jake, I'm not burning up brake linings and I always get in the gear that my jake will hold me back down any hill. yes, it's slow going...but I bill by the hour.

I now live out in the country, house is about 200 yards from the highway. there is a gang of mennonites that run chip trucks that live about a mile south of me, and they start jaking with their straight pipes near my house to turn at the cross roads a half mile west.

one night at 3am I snapped. jumped into my pickup, caught up to the offending unit, and went off on him when he pulled into his yard. told him to tell the chief mennonite to call me if he had an issue with me telling them to cut that #### out, and if he does, my next call is to the local CVE office to arrange a roadside inspection. straight pipes are illegal here.

hate to be that guy...but if you have zero respect, then I sure can be and then some if you want to get froggy.

 

Yes!, all you clowns running around using your unmuffled jakes in small town America in the middle of the night suffer from macro ##### syndrome.
These words are harsh, but I believe them to be true!

We've all heard you and yet none of us are impressed. My truck, ( much emphasis on the key word "My"), is a 17' Cascadia with a DD15 and Dt12 and a muffled Jake brake.
This truck,(which is a team operation with my co-owner and wife), now has 600,000 miles on it and still running on original brake shoes and pads. Our Jakes are used often with little fan-fair as they are very effective and quiet. Funny how I can use my Jakes and not piss off everyone around me and yet there are some who must upset everyone.
I do of course realize that my remark about one's manhood could be considered extremely harsh, but who else would feel a need for all that obnoxious noise in the middle of the night?
A bullhauler usually.

 

Yeah I grew up in middle America small town, ( Columbus, Tx), to be exact. Ive definitely been awoken numerous times by these hacks in the middle of the night.
Even as a male child I knew what deficiency these clowns suffered from.

 

I cannot help it if small town chose to build a intersection with a blinking light at the bottom of a vertical ridge on one side and clime out facing the sky on the other ridge to a stop sign which is might as well be a 30% pull to start.

That braking is going for all the marbles for safety. Thank God there is no traffic down there at that blinking light when it's time to stop about halfway across the intersection on hot brakes.

The last time in a smallish town called Bethlehem PA I rolled down a vertical mountain to a T intersection with a river past the light yonder down there. I had lost my brakes halfway down and stopped on jakes and springs popped by the time I got there she was falling. There was a container of peanut butter and jelly on my volvo for export and it's heavy. Around 94K gross.

Im glad I stopped. I would have been in the water otherwise. And made sure I aint been back up there.

So when you hear the jakes in your dreams that is a driver fighting physics to get through your town safely.

For my part I owned a home here in white county off 31 for years, the gas trucks would jake for the 30 mph curve off 65 to 30 mph every 15 minutes during the gas boom. As long I heard jakes all is well. Once a year I do not hear good jakes or jakes way too late and then too much air and tire causing him to flip. The last one that flopped onto it's side stamped a pernament impression of his wheel bolts of his steers into the curve pavement to this day it's still there.

I don't hear those jakes anymore really. It's only when they jake too late and know they are going too fast...

 

There isnt a road legal truck that's ever existed that can start on a 30% grade empty, let alone loaded heavy. Keep the hyperbole in the realm of reality.

 

i have a muffler on my truck my jake isn't any louder than a straight pipe truck accelerating. so i leave my jake on threw towns during daylight hours, if i am coming threw a town at 3 am though i go ahead and shut it off and try to coast threw as quietly as possible.