Fear of Driving to the Mountains

mdamerell wrote:
In the semi we have a couple basic rules
1- you go down a hill 1 gear lower than you went up.
2- save your brakes for an emergency, use the engine/trans to slow you down.
3- if you have to brake, use stab braking as described above.

As one ole boy told me as I creped down the Rockies for the 1st time. "You can go down a hill too slow many times, you'll only go down it too fast, once."

Take your time and enjoy the view.

I've made the same comment about going down the hill only one time too fast but I also got that piece of advice from a fellow trucker I was in contact with on my first trip over the mountains with an over size load, Wide and 90 plus thousand pounds. Words to live by for sure. Keep those words in mind and you will do every thing you can to get over the mountain safely. Most of all common sense and attention to the road prevails