What was your 1st mountain pass you drove on. Or the 1st that scared you!everybody

Cabbage I ended up in a runaway ramp! BTW That hurts!

 

My first mountain my first week of my first trucking job was on I-26 east of Chattanooga, TN. Don't ask me names but I seen what run off ramps were all about when we got to the second one and the driver missed the ramp and crashed In between the ramp and mountain and caught fire. By the time we reached it nothing but the charred frame remained. My codriver and I looked at each simultaneously and said the exact same thing, "this is no joke". At the end of the day he asked me, well what did you learn today, I said, " trucking school was right, you let all the trucks on the highway and run all the 4-wheelers over....LOL. What a day I won't forget.

First mountain that scared me, was in, where else, in Colorado at the top in Vale where it practically snows year round. Had two hours left into my driving time and decided that I was too tired and had no patience to descend so I parked on the side until my co-driver was out of the sleeper after doing his ten. He got pissed at me and said "you could be fired if you worked for a big company". I said, "So what if they fire me for that at least I can say I didn't tear anything up.

 

I was fresh out trucking school by just a few days when I went to California. Tackled Grapevine, El Cajun, Donner in my first few days.
Fun ride in an orange cabover....

 

You are 100% right sir... The company I ran wouldn't pay tolls so I took that way, at night in the snow !!!

Holy Hell that road is something else, its passable but you get another truck coming at you its tight... And 328 turns... I believe it !!

I GPS marked it, I want to check it out in the summer sometime...

IN MY CAR !!!

 

Powder river pass.........9666 ft in the springtime........quite the ride westbound into tensleep from the top........

 

Just finished 5 weeks out. First time on my own. Drove all over I 90, I 15, through Montana, Colorado New Mexico, Washington, Wyoming and Oregon. The worst was coming down I 84 in Oregon, Cabbage Pass I think it was. Too anxious to really check out the road signs other than the one saying my max speed coming down hill was 28 mph...

 

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!You drove alot of mountains.Now thats something u can really be proud of because this was your first time on your own.I don't do mountains and ive been driving since 2003.

 

the Ozarks, I seriously hate the Ozarks, bad experience there not too bad though cuz I am alive and I learned

 

My first was the mountains of i77 in West Virginia.

Though first that really scared me was Vail pass in the snow with no trailer brakes.

 

Denver to Grand Junction, back and forth every night...(hello deer/elk), with five stops in between dropping off Ford parts at dealerships.