Shifting into neutral

pitch wrote:
Cyberian,I delivered mail for twenty years in one of those death trap LLV's. The ONLY way you could keep them from being pushed through a slippery intersection was to place them in neutral and feather the e brake to control the rear axle. I never had an accident or mishap doing this. Several of my coworkers over the years were involved in accidents as a result of not using this technique!
Please go to General RVing issues above and read a thread called "Attitude"

Aren't you the guy that had to delete his own post crying about neighbors drinking beer and otherwise not conforming to your desired demographic? Seriously.

So now it's gone from coasting down hill, to pre-ABS coasting on snowy hills or otherwise, to just trying to slow or stop at an intersection with even more anecdotal "evidence" to justify it all primarily with equipment deficiencies. Huh.

To pass the CDL driving test, you have to keep the rig in gear until you are within one tractor length of the stop. It was the same when I got my passenger car class D when I was a kid. I had to keep my *motorcycle* in gear to within a length. This is nothing new. If you can't do it, you fail.

Knowing that your vehicle is traction challenged, would the correct answer not be to pay attention to conditions and slow down sooner if needed? Blame the equipment and weather all you like, insurance companies and law enforcement are going to call it "operator error" because it is.

Committing unsafe acts in unsafe equipment in potentially unsafe conditions and bragging about it.

Yeah, my bad attitude. Whatever man.