Killer Hills !

[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.

[mbadriver]

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!

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.

[ChikinTrucka]

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!

[PA]

77 can be tough with a max load of paper
the stop at beckley is good

[dcmilkwagon]

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.

o-O wow I remember Sandstone. If you were running for Roadway the winter of 2000 I was probably one of the K&K Trucking Co., pulling mail that passed ya each morning. Yeah that could be a tough long hill alright.

[wot i life]

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

80,000 lbs. is a light load... My unit weighs 55,000 lbs. M/T

Trucks are tough

102,500lbs? Or 46.25 tonnes? Few years ago I would,nt have got out of bed to move that. Wouldn,t have paid enough you see, paid on the tonnage then I was.

[Double L]

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.