This is how you go down the Cabbage!

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by PackRatTDI, Aug 7, 2014.

  1. 27butterfly

    27butterfly Medium Load Member

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    Exactly, I wish some of you could see the people I took care of when I was in healthcare, they are in nursing homes today for some of the same things you guys are talking about. It is sad to see pictures of them standing next to there family in older pictures happy and now seeing some of them not being able to even speak and having to eat out of a feeding tube. Speeding or going down fast will only get you there a couple of minutes earlier or cost you a life. Anytime your in doubt of that, go visit some of these young people in the nursing homes, go to Truman Smith in Gladewater Tx and ask them how many young people they get from accidents.
     
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  3. NoCoCraig

    NoCoCraig Road Train Member

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    Parleys in Park City UT is not nearly as long a grade as Cabbage
     
  4. skellr

    skellr Road Train Member

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    If you can't make an emergency stop from 55mph with a legal load on a 6% downhill grade then something is wrong with the brakes. You should know something is wrong with them before you are in a situation like that. If they don't feel right then they probably aren't.
     
  5. skellr

    skellr Road Train Member

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    My favorite part about that sign is that it's black on yellow. :)
     
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