Killer Hills !
#21
01-13-2008, 10:37 PM
Those 6 and 7% grades don't sound so bad. Get off the interstate anyplace in PA and start on some 12 to 14% grades and see what steep is all about! I'll admit, really steep for a mile isn't the same as kinda steep for 20 miles, but they both give me the willies. My truck has a piece of crap engine brake, and I tell my dispatcher I won't take those long grades with this truck. I just don't feel safe.
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#22
01-14-2008, 12:12 PM
US322 East of State College, PA is PITA going up. It doesn't look like much, but it's a fairly long (for the east) pull. Going down is a piece of cake.
I-64 is a blast. I40 through the Smokies is just a long PITA. Any of the few East/West roads through VT and NH are a long PITA. Haven't trucked out West. But I trust the worst is Snoqualmie and Donner is no joy ride. Fifteen years ago my wife and I were on a "no particular destination" vacation in Colorado/New Mexico. One road in particular had my nutz in my throat. It was going to or from Aspen. It was either route 82, 24, or 91. Just a bitty 2-laner stuck on the side of the mountains with sheer drop offs. Seems like Silverton had something funny going in or out. Must suck to be a driver supplying the ski resorts - mountains and snow. Yahoo!
Originally Posted by ChikinTrucka
Those 6 and 7% grades don't sound so bad. Get off the interstate anyplace in PA and start on some 12 to 14% grades and see what steep is all about! I'll admit, really steep for a mile isn't the same as kinda steep for 20 miles, but they both give me the willies. My truck has a piece of crap engine brake, and I tell my dispatcher I won't take those long grades with this truck. I just don't feel safe.
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#23
01-20-2008, 06:13 PM
Route 25B, Center Harbor, NH. 13% grade. Only about 1 mile, but, boy oh boy, you wanna check your brakes, start in 1st, and fasten yer seat belt before you fall off the edge of that one!
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#25
01-20-2008, 08:10 PM
Re: Killer Hills !
Originally Posted by ben45750
I think Fancy Gap, Black Mountain and Monteagle are cake compared to Sandstone. East Bound I-64 in WV is my pick for toughest hill in the East. I'm not very religious but I have had many conversations with God while driving worn out Roadway equipment down Sandstone. :lol:
#26
01-21-2008, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by COLT
Take a look at the G.V.W. stickers on Canadian trucks....
36,0000 kg. is 80,000 lbs. When I grab a tridem trailer legal for 102,500 lbs. The other drivers call it a "baby" trailer :lol: 80,000 lbs. is a light load... My unit weighs 55,000 lbs. M/T :lol: Trucks are tough
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#27
01-22-2008, 08:32 AM
I know Sandstone all too well, I was up and down that all this past summer, I went down Black mountain once or twice I don't remember. I tell ya what run 501 from Lynchburg to I-81 and you'll have a blast, it's mostly mountains with alot of hairpin curves too.
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