Proper Down Hill Breaking 9% Grade 79,000 GVW. Using 5, 3, Breaking Technique

Proper Down Hill Breaking down a 9 % mountain grade with 79,000 pounds in a big truck using the 5, 3 braking technique

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Education

Tags:

• flatbed
• proper downhill breaking
• 9 percent downgrade
• 3 breaking technique

[emerson5478]

What about with an automatic transmission? What should I do

[truckertwotimes]

@emerson5478 lock down the gear you will start off in and hold the rpm at 2000 if you need to drop another gear just mash the next lower locked number after you slow the rpm's to where the gear will go in at

[TheDavidpayne]

that truck never has any diesel in it ! keep on trucken . have u ever ran out of diesel ???

[truckertwotimes]

Yes I have, ran out when I drove a Cement Truck about 40 miles from the Shop, had to get em to bring me some, pretty embarrassing

[northernchicken]

i get alot of flack about this from other drivers but personally i prefer taking grades a gear or two lower than necessary and letting the engine brake hold me the entire way. most steep mountains I only touch the brake gently for very short bursts 3 or 4 times. on lesser grades i wouldn't brake at all. brake use equals brake wear and brake components are expensive.

[peterbilt266]

wheres the jake brake

[MrBlitz126]

Sir:Which is the best gear for downgrades? would snub breaking be the best procedure?In school I was told to never use the retarders. What would you suggest? Thank you.

[Oshawapilot]

@skips1965 Stab braking is the CORRECT way to do it - the old-school "light and even pressure" has been proven long ago to be the fastest way to smoke/glaze/fade air brakes.

WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING IS UNSAFE. DO NOT TEACH IT TO OTHERS.

If you've managed with that braking technique for 20 years and "never smoked the brakes", you either don't haul the weight you claim, or don't go into serious mountain terrain.

I suggest you brush up on things - a lot has changed in 20 years.

[dwayn7]

please dont believe this guy people if you hold a lite pressure on your brakes going downhill loaded you are gonna smoke your brakes if its a long grade about 2 gears lower if you dont have jakes and that 5 mph rule you will be fine goin down now hold it in the road driver

[skips1965]

it's sad that these so-called professional drivers don't know the difference between "BREAK" and "BRAKE"

20 plus years of driving and never smoked the brakes.

Down hills with 45,000 in the box with no Jake.

Light even pressure on the brakes, in the proper gear to hold about 1800 RPMs and I never had any problems.

"STAB BRAKING" ??????? Where'd you learn that? Dumbass University?

[gale881000]

i have a cdl and haul equipment and dirt around home but i have made 3 trips over the road from south dakota to oklahoma and texas and im no truck driver by any means, but my dad drove for twenty years and my grandfather drove for about 40 years and they always taught me to use that damn jake brake and if i have to keep it in a low enough gear so i dont have to touch the brakes but if i do have to to run em at about 3 pounds of pressure and dont fan em or they will glaze over.. 

[brazilnut8898]

You should do a video on "Braking" also

[BeantownJim]

no jake?

[kenfo0]

that road was wide open! you should've been in 99th gear with the pedal to the metal.  put down the camera, 5-eyes.

[SeamusCallan1]

Whats the name of that drunk driving school, Mav?

[timcat100]

yup stupid trucker going down a steap hill holding a handy cam...dumb ass...I knew it was you