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Originally Posted by WilliCO
It's always a good idea, when moving down an extended grade, to use the transmission rather than the brakes to maintain speed - whether you drive a BMW, a semi, a school bus, or a Honda Fit.
But frankly there are no grades anywhere near Detroit where you would have the need to do that. He was talking about situations like we have here in Colorado, where we give back 2400 feet in elevation over an 8 mile distance between the Eisenhower Tunnel and Silverthorne.
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On the hill you are referencing, it's more than a "good idea" in a semi...given that the alternatives are one of the the runaway truck ramps...or death :-) Don't you just enjoy inhaling all that asbestos when the truckers on that section of I-70 cook their brakes? :-)