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SMOKIN on Fancy Gap

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by goodchoice10, Oct 16, 2012.

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  1. Oct 16, 2012 #11
    CenutryClass

    CenutryClass Road Train Member

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    this is true. the jakes on my volvo is so impotent I have to run over the summit in 10th and stab brake to the bottom. If I drop to 9th and i am heavily loaded, Im bumping against the governor.
     
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  3. Oct 16, 2012 #12
    allniter

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    I agree slow down before the downhill, sit back and enjoy the view, its remarkable! I regularily brought 45k down Fancy without a jake, never smoked. I did the same up 77 in WV with 45k of Strohs beer from Winston Salem, NC to Ohio. Couldnt take the turnpike curves fast because beer is very unstable freight,so I enjoyed the view. My very 1st beer load I flew up the WV Tpk and when I got to deliver in Columbus, Ohio all 45k had shifted and I spent 3 days picking cans off the floor, putting them back into those plastic 6 pack holders and restacking. Never happened again!
    Back on topic, IIRC didnt a truck with faded brakes run into the sb rest area or scale house and run into a bunch of stopped truck? That sb scaleloved to see trucks with smoking brakes coming across the scale.
     
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  4. Oct 16, 2012 #13
    Logan76

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    Last time I came up over Fancy Gap there was an accident right up past the VA scales on my way home a truck driver lost his life going northbound and I sat there for what seemed like forever.

    Another one of my favorite trips is I75 from Cincinnati down to Tennessee, nice ride.
     
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  5. Oct 16, 2012 #14
    skateboardman

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    they been smokin on fancy gap forever. back before my hair turned gray we sometimes would knock em out gear a little ways past the 3 mile mmarker.

    no jake brake and a 290 cummins 13 speed in a 1976 intl4070b cabover. ah to be young and foolish again.
     
    skateboardman, Oct 16, 2012
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  7. Oct 16, 2012 #15
    STexan

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    That was the exact truck I first started "trucking" running out of San Antonio to West Texas and NM. I miss those days but not so much the truck. Actually saw one a few days ago somewhere that looked to be still operational and in use.
     
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  8. Oct 17, 2012 #16
    T...Street

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    Yuo should've tried the old road on Fancy Gap...hwy52...that was a challenge.
     
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  9. Oct 17, 2012 #17
    goodchoice10

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    I have NB....it's restricted SB. I pull a circle....smooth bore....heavy loads but usually 70% of the volume of the tank. Its quite "squishy"....especially if you get it rockin.

    As for SB 77....it's a good ride at 65.....just manage your truck.....the o/o's cruise down...some pretty fast. Yet their brakes are not on fire.....its always CRE, Western Express, Swift, USA Truck.....you know the usual suspects.
     
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  10. Oct 17, 2012 #18
    skateboardman

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    yes it was, rt 19 north of ashville was fun also
     
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  11. Oct 17, 2012 #19
    SHO-TYME

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    I see trucks smoking hte brakes there and on Mt Eagle. I hoipe they never travel in real mountains or there will be more available parking spaces.
     
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  12. Oct 17, 2012 #20
    wsyrob

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    Fancy Gap on I-77 is really not all that bad. It has a couple of flat sections and the lower half is worse than the top. I usually don't even drop a gear at the top. Even my crappy jakes will hold 45K under 65 mph to the first runaway truck ramp. From there the upgrade will slow you to 55 naturally and heavy I will drop to 9th then. With a tanker the curves worry me as much as the grade and there is a 55 mph curve towards the bottom at the weather station so I stay in the right lane and let the super truckers roll on. Maybe touch the brakes 3 times this way.

    I have had to lock it up halfway down in a back up. Its not fun and that taught me the value of following distance. Don't tailgate....ever.

    Working out of High Point NC I have run this mountain a lot. Sometimes a couple of times a week.
     
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