I don't know what the name of it but I had a heck if a time on us30 between breezewood pa and Chambersburg pa..... at 80000 and with a broken jake brake switch so no jake. That sure was fun. This was about 8 years ago maybe, when it was just recommended trucks don't use that road. Now it is not allowed. Cabbage is much worse if going west than it is going east.
Homestake Montana is a fun one.
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Hwy 70 west bound, Feather River Canyon in California. After you've run on compact snow and ice for most of the way from 395 you climb up out of the canyon and at Jarbo Gap you start down the hill to the Sacramento Valley. If it's early in the morning the shady spots will be iced up and the turn at the bottom to cross the Lake Oroville Bridge will be either wet or icy.
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Spouse made that route one of her favorites. I used to age a thousand years every time we hit a curve shaded by trees at 70 downgrade. It tells me of ice that is really smooth and can put the whole thing into the snowbank higher than you are. You would think on a nice day there is no ice in the sun but those snow banks constantly leak water downslope across the road and once it hits that shade boom ice with more water coming on at a certain temp.
In eastern central Montana there is what I call Continental Divide. I am wise enough not to take it on during winter storms. I'll put her into Billings when it gets to be about a foot or more and stay to morning then run it. Hopefully after the storm front has passed taking the snows with it. Billings is interesting. Im parked across a intersection surrounded by 4 way stop signs and no traffic that night. It's all trucks on both curbs on all 4 roads. Probably the one time I ever slept a night inside a intersection during a bad storm. You would think school tells you not to do certain things well... life isnt like that sometimes. -
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US 191 in Utah off of US 6 north of Price up to Duchesne gets pretty steep and curvy. I have only ran it going up but right at 80000 in a smooth bore tank.
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I was wondering that myself. Always have someone wanting to stir the pot.
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I forgot to mention the rocks. After the first good rainfall every year the rocks start coming down the canyon walls. Some of them are huge.
CalTrans runs rock plows up there but they don't always stay up with it. The plow drivers seem to take a lot of naps.
You'll come around a corner and the road will be full of rocks big enough and sharp enough to take out your steer axle tires No fun at all. -
Teton pass.
191, to 163 to us89 in Az. Very interesting.
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