What if?

awww! you guys are picking on me!

We didn't idle the truck this whole last trip!

Mattress at home, while very firm, is nowhere near as hard as the upper bunk in that Pete. And, much as I like my trainer - there are limits. He slept in the bottom bunk, so I'd gotten unused to a breathing body next to mine.

 

Just trying to make you feel at home.

 

You had me worried Lurch! Then ya caught on... and now ya got me worried again! :smt101:smt107

 

trust me, worrying is better. Safer, anyway.

 

Well see its like this....

If you drive a truck that is governed then yes you may need to break in order to shift... Why? well the dang governor will not let you rev the RPM high enough in order to get into a lower gear...
A truck that is not governed you can rev that baby up and drop[ it into a lower gear and let the Jake do the work... Most governed trucks that run 65 ish you usally can't rev more then 1700-1900...

You ask me that's unsafe as heck, why? well lets say you do end up getting the brakes hot and you start to roll, well if you was in a truck that was not governed you can rev that baby up and drop a gear if needed, your governed truck you don't have that option and your going to roll on down that hill possibly killing yourself and maybe a few other people....

That's probably where you get "don't downshift on a hill" because if you do get your breaks hot your not going to get a governed truck to drop a gear... If you use the snub break method (I have posted it on the forums how I use that method, and most schools teach that method as well) your not going to get the breaks hot because you use a combination of downshifting (when needed) and breaking......

My personal opinion is that they need to be able to program these truck to allow a higher rev in neutral, to help with this possible scenario.

 

Excellent point TruckerJoe. I wasn't aware of that.

 

My truck is governed at 62 but there is no rpm limit. I have run it up to 2200 on a few occasions. The throttle just doesn't allow engine acceleration once truck speed is above 62.

Can any experienced trucker out there comment about my suggestion of pulling the trolley brake lever on a steer tire blowout? Thankfully I've never had a steer tire go but my trainer told me about the trolley brake method but even he himself hasn't had a steer blow so I just wanted to know if anyone has used this technique.

 

"healthy paranoia".

 

Ditto... and accidentally thought I was gonna become airborn at least once, what with the engine reved so high!

Not directly.. one of my instructors said it happened to him and he used the johnson bar. We asked him what he thought of it - he just said "Don't"