8% grade descent
Newbie Here. F350 and 37' fifth wheel. Yesterday I went down an 8 degree slope and left it in Tow Haul while using the breaks on trailer and truck to slow me down. I was thinking I might have been ...
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trail-explorer wrote:
Often times I will manually activate the trailer brakes rather than continually using (and having the fear of overheating) the truck brakes.
I will use the truck brake pedal, but only occasionally and will alternate with manual activation of the trailer brakes.
THere's times where no matter how slow you start at the top, you will have to use the brakes some. I had this experience coming out of Beatty, NV in to Death valley, and the same thing leaving Death Vally going in to Panamint Valley.
This I disagree with. If you start out in first gear I don't believe you would have to use the brakes. But that is JMHO
