I've been going down this Mtn for 5 years and never had the first problem, I love when truck's blow by the mandatory stop and see the trooper waiting at the end for them. Use lower gears and jake break on high and you don't have to even touch the breaks

My father was a cross-country trucker I'm not sure if he ever traveled the Monteagle but this video reminded me of the handful of times I was able to join him on his rides...

As I remember it's "the engine is for slowing, the brakes are for stopping"

@jasongeerer8163

2 жыл бұрын

Thats right

I've been over that mountain quite a few times but one time particularly stands out. We were going south (family car, not a truck), late at night and the fog was so thick I had to open the door to see where the lines were. One of the most nerve wracking trips I've ever had. Scared to death the whole time down that something was going to come up behind us.

You can go down a mountain 1000 times too slow,.... but only once too fast.

@terrymoody7739

5 жыл бұрын

s Holder, driver what a great comment! You are so right! Keep the sunny side up, and the dirty side down. Keep America rolling safe. Ex-driver here for 25 years! Be safe out there everyone!

@milestone_achiever4634

4 жыл бұрын

You will never go up a mountain fast because of the irresistible force. But you can go down it as fast as the force will take you. The question is.......can you control the force???????

@marcuswarfield9119

3 жыл бұрын

Facts

i have fallen down that hill many a time, grossing 80thousand, in an old Mack cabover going to Atlanta. BEFORE it was four lane. the old two lane road was a real pleasure!!

@cowboykody6775

2 жыл бұрын

Old Mack coe??? H, F, Cruiseliner, Ultraliner?

An old truck driver once told me, "You can go down every hill too slow for the rest of your life, or you can go down one hill too fast for the rest of your life."

I went down that very same road a few weeks back, I seemed to be the only truck driver obeying the speed limit. A flat bedded with a coil flew past me, brakes smoking, I lost sight of him. A mile or 2 later I saw a huge cloud of dust, yep he had to hit the runaway ramp.

When I was young working in the forest industry in British Columbia I saw loaded logging trucks crawling down steep hills with what I thought were smoking brakes until one of the older hands pointed out that it was steam, not smoke. The trucks and trailers were equipped with water tanks that dripped a continuous stream of water on the drums to keep the brakes cool. Never saw a runaway there. My wife's uncle had a low bed to haul his D8 around the province where he built roads for the logging companies. His tractor had both a Jake and a transmission retarder and needed both to avoid a runaway on some of the steepest roads I've ever seen a tractor trailer on.

@graham2631

6 жыл бұрын

Grew up on the BC coast some of the biggest loads an steepest grades thats for shure. On loggers sport days the outfit put a old 1ton on the main line drove a empty hayes into it an would put it at the enterance to the parking lot with a sign said "we can't stop"there haul road was only way in an out of town it was a private road. The drivers would stop if you ditched your truck back up tell you "hook onto somthing solid boy cause its coming withme" a off road hayes 16f bunks on a 24f road a site to see those drivers were the best

There is no excuses for smoking your brakes on a 6% grade

@Species-lj8wh

6 жыл бұрын

Its not the steepness of the grade but the length that makes it dangerous to ignorant truckers.

@darrenhollinger4629

6 жыл бұрын

I understand that, still not an excuse

@stevelovesgod

6 жыл бұрын

MK Albert they have j brakes

@Mr.XJ.96

6 жыл бұрын

darren hollinger Agreed Driver!!

@turkfebruary5836

5 жыл бұрын

darren hollinger sure there is.

7TH Gear and Jake brake on high at 1700 rpm. You will never need to touch your brakes. I run that hill twice daily 5 day per week.

could have had a smoke break waiting for the smoked brakes. lol

Start at 5:30. End at 6:30. Totally ignore the other incredibly lame six minutes. You're welcome.

@islandhawaiian81

2 жыл бұрын

You are spot on . Can you believe that ? They got what was coming . And More!

What would he do on Alt 14 in Wyoming...16% downgrades?

Incredible scenery. God bless

This is I-24 south out of Nashville. I've been down it a hundred times. It's really not that bad if you use your head. The 4 wheelers that zip around you like bumblebees is worse than the hill. I will say Averitt will have spongie brakes for the rest of the day.

Go to 5:00

@simonnyman9031

6 жыл бұрын

Triggerwarning for democrats ;)

Every time I drove this route and got to this mountain I thought about the song "the Legend of the Bandit" from "Smokey and the Bandit"

@ChrisMartinScruffy

6 жыл бұрын

Yep... saw title and in my head... 'he said folks when the truck picked too much speed, I just ran along beside it and drug my feet' . It's a shame the writers didn't stick to what made the first one great. In fact it seemed like they wanted to go the other way on purpose.

@dispatchkirksmobilerepair7787

6 жыл бұрын

I would have bet no one would have gotten that reference

@buckberthod5007

2 жыл бұрын

"Hit Monteagle in a driving rain, so hard he couldn't even see the passing lane. Well he stared down grade when lost him a gear, hit them brakes found he had no air. The Monteagle grade is steep and long, everybody that seen it thought the Bandit was gone. Well his truck jacknifed turned completely around, he was coming down backwards bout the speed of sound. Lot folks seen it, and they all say, he had his head out the window yelling clear the way"

Thats monteagle, i-24 eastbound, bout an hour west of Chattanooga. That amazes me because averitt has a terminal in Nashville. They shouldnt have any problems with this.

I live in Tennessee and my grandad drove a kenworth he lost his life on monteagle in 2004 he had complete brake failure and went into the trees going around a corner

@Brownn32

4 жыл бұрын

☹️Sorry to hear that🙏🏽🙏🏽😘

Thank you for posting this video . I'm sure people are on CB radios trying to get the drivers attention this is so dangerous

Why did he not use the jake brakes??? Why did he not take that hill in a lower gear??? How in the hell do you smoke your brakes on a 6% grade??? These things perplexes me....😒 😒

@BenjaminEsposti

6 жыл бұрын

Brakes could have been dragging a bit to begin with, they were old and worn, or the driver has a heavy foot and constantly drags the brakes (their fault, from keeping their foot on the brake).

@charkswitlazers

6 жыл бұрын

if his company regulates his RPMs, then it's not too hard to smoke brakes even with jakes on a 6% that lasts more than a few miles

@jtprasadi515

5 жыл бұрын

and why is he not stopping to cool down and start slow?

@swampysanta5445

4 жыл бұрын

some trucks don't have jake brakes

Went on a school trip in 1960 London to Austria by coach it was a General Motors Bedford with drum brakes. One of the day trips while staying there was up the Grossglockner mountain for which a local coach had to be hired in. Coaches had to have secondary braking, IE an engine brake. Our driver hadn't even heard about them but Mercedes Benz were fitting them on coaches way back then, don't know about trucks. He was fascinated with it and sat up front the whole trip.

Keep on trucking

Select proper gear and stay in that gear till you know you have safely made the trip down and use Jake brakes if you have them.Don,t ride your brakes to the very bottom specially when the steep grade is coming to an end and grade is leveling out like in this video.Keep the fire extinguish ready Averitt

@BenjaminEsposti

6 жыл бұрын

Also, if your brakes start smoking, and you know they aren't dragging, it's better to coast and let them cool off with natural air flow instead of stopping to let them cool. That is, if you can do this in a safe manner. Fire extinguishers don't usually work on overheating brakes because there is too much thermal mass that you need to cool. The fire will simply reignite. Rubber tire fires are notoriously difficult to extinguish.

Looks like he ran out of air due to too much application of the brakes, or the air system was not working properly, or the air line to the trailer had a leak, or a combination of all of the above. Not brake 'failure' but brake application that resulted in locking the rear axle wheels

@jaredmayer3960

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, if he ran out of air the tractor protection valve would have popped the button for the trailer in cab and the trailer would have skidded the tires...definitely was using the spike and only applying the trailer brakes...

Went over this in a custom 45' Prevost pulling 10,000 lb trailer. (hold my beer) Yeeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I have been trucking for almost 25, and I can't believe it but I'm a veteran now😐

I stopped many times on top and wound up my brakes with a 9/16 wrench back when you rarely saw self adjust brakes, On this and Saluda grade. Start off in granny low and ease on down.

Main reason my brakes are smoking. Is if you pay attention most drivers ignore the speed limit and go down it to fast. Speeds on all down grades are there for a reason Only smoked my brakes once in 39 yrs of driving Now. Drop 2 gears. Turn on jake brake. Never. Touch my brakes

@gregorycraighead6302

3 жыл бұрын

I think you're lieing about smoking your brakes once in 39 yrs because 39 years ago you had no Jake's but none of my business carry on

@ralphpeer4180

3 жыл бұрын

@@gregorycraighead6302 hey moron. Don't you think I know about that. I drove a truck without a jake brake. I guess you must smoke your brakes alot. Why would I lie about smoking my brakes only once. Oh I know. You must be one of those drivers that is better then everyone else and no one can do it better then you. Have a nice day

6% and smoked brakes ? Really ? Goodness don't ever go to the mountains out northwest bubba

@rjl886

6 жыл бұрын

Bobbie LaVanway it wasn't me who smoked my breaks

@graham2631

6 жыл бұрын

Up here the parking lots are 8% 6% what we keep the beer at

Averitt using his trailer brakes, so he can save his tractor brakes. He probably won't be pulling that trailer on his next run.

Not surprised Averritt was burning his brakes on the way down. He was tapping the breaks every 3 secs just in the start on flat ground.

Engine brakes are nearly useless at lower rpm's. I downshift and let my engine tach 1800-2000 rpm's. Works very well. I have to use minimal brake application. Engine does an excellent job of holding truck back. Companies don't like for their drivers to "over rev" the engine.

@buckberthod5007

2 жыл бұрын

Same theory but it's why I like the old Pete's with a big cam 400 and a 13spd with progressive jakes. I could cut 2 cylinder or 4 or all 6. Was a nice thing to have

@tombeyer375

2 жыл бұрын

@@buckberthod5007 sure love that option, as you have much better control with those choices. "Eagle Claw" on the side!

This got me to thinking, in the 20 years I was OTR, I only smoked the brakes twice. And it was completely my own arrogance and inexperience. Respect the hill, because the hill wont respect you. Incidentally those two hills were the grapevine, and the 26 mile grade from flag to the sticker patch.

Johnny Cash has a great song about this grade. Monteagle Mountain.

COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT THE FIRST 6 MINUTS OF THE VIDEO. IM NOT GETTING THAT 6 MINUTES OF MY LIFE BACK.....

@rjl886

6 жыл бұрын

JNYSDUBS to bad

@marcodaprize478

6 жыл бұрын

Thx

@markab71

6 жыл бұрын

So you take more of your time to comment ? Idiot!

@Valhalla8833

6 жыл бұрын

but he is right, so who is the Idiot now?

.... 🤔..... why did you need a 7 minute video the show something that happened for 15 seconds in the last minute of the video?

Thanks guys

From the looks of it only his trailer brakes are smoking. Maybe he’s riding them with the trolly handle.

Hand valve on a little?

Thats what I'm saying @4:27 like that red International I go down grades slow with Jake's Clapping...

Your are correct, what if he was really going down a mountain get some help

I remember don't forget your way points and scales

What's the reason for going through there and stopping at light

@zackgibson3389

3 жыл бұрын

Mandatory brake inspection/test

Back in 88, coming back from LA fair, on top of the Sikyues summit. looked out window, and saw red glow. Tapped the brake, got brighter. Knew the brakes were lit. Told my other driver behind me, Hook on behind. Hold My speed down. Made it all the way down, real slow. Was ale to drive the rest of the way home. Hate to think what would have happened, had`t noticed the problem.

No smoke coming from the tractor brakes. Out of adjustment?

going down Monteagle on I 24. i live at the top.

I have been across monteagle and it is a big mountain.. Saw a lot of trucks smoke there breaks

A little smoke never hurt anything new linings will smoke the guys today wouldn't know what to do in the old days before we had Jake's,I drove a truck for Walmart from the factory the Jake wouldn't work they had it in the shop a bunch trying to fix it I didn't mind not having it nobody would drive it on my days off it stayed clean.

i like the emergency exit sign lol at the truck inspection station

I've probably been over it a thousand times. (the right way) Most of these cowboys are in my mirrors by the time i get to Nickajack. Lol

An easy hill to descend. Not much of a mountain. By the way, nicknamed "Eagle", it is NOT Mount Eagle - it is Monteagle.

How do you smoke your brakes on a molehill like that?flipping flatlander smh

I NEVER TOUCH MY BRAKES GOING DOWN THAT HILL, YES ITS A HILL 2 MILES TO 3 MILES DECENT.... RIGHT GEAR LITTLE BIT JAKE NEVER HAVE TOUCH BRAKES....

@wendellstafford8447

4 жыл бұрын

4 miles down the east side of the rock.

looks like he was just using his trailer brakes

@biggtw71

6 жыл бұрын

Very true!!!!!

Hammerhead, how the hell do you smoke em on this tiny hill?

Here is a Viloation on one of the trucks for Averitt express. not goo BRAKES OUT OF SERVICE: The number of defective brakes is equal to or greater than 20 percent of the service brakes on the vehicle or combination

I love the Chinese buffet at the exit before the mountain

@Alex0992

3 жыл бұрын

Can a semi fit?

@freemandream4306

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alex0992 oh yeah it has a gravel parking , it's probably good for like 10-15 trucks

And I totally agree with you him not knowing what to do but give him some help some how if possible .

I've come down that several times pushing 80k doing 55 and never got the brakes hot. Those freight haulers aren't carrying more than 35k. Lower gear, full Jake, and stab brake. It worked 50 years ago on lesser trucks, it sure as will work on the new ones.

@simpleman283

2 жыл бұрын

They don't teach stab breaking anymore.

@pohldriver

2 жыл бұрын

@@simpleman283 yeah. They were already leaning on steady pressure when I got my CDL 20 years ago. It's the same amount of energy being put into the shoes and drums either way.

@tombeyer375

2 жыл бұрын

@@simpleman283 Yeah, you won't hear stab brake these days. Wish they'd teach the young-uns this today, as it might help them grab a lower gear if they'd misjudged things at the top.

This is covered in a basic driving academy! Why the he'll didn't he use his jakes and downshift?? SMFH.

@jaredmayer3960

3 жыл бұрын

He might not have jakes...

@MRALBERT571

3 жыл бұрын

His tractor brakes were not smoking either that I saw maybe trailer brakes way tighter than tractor or some problem.

Fun part will be if he sets them brakes LOL

Averitt coming back from MI with a load of sacks grossing about 76,000 is my bet!!

Its kinda funny in a way to watch n read the comments, no disrespect to anyone, we all gotta start some where, somtimes we learn the hard way. I first ran Mont Eagle in a gas powered Ford. Jake brake? None. Then I ran out west, Vail, Colorado, Rebuilt '47 Peterbuilt with a 335 Cummins, no jake. You went down the hill 1 gear lower than up hill. When I.ld get west of Grand Junction, Co, by Mack, Co I.ld go north thru Vernal, Utah to get to Green River, Wyo. I.ld get to the Wyo.state line by the sign that read " Limited snow plowing, 8am-4pm Mon-Fri I.ld go thru there Saturday night Winter time was "fun"

If you see a truck in this situation again stay behind him in the center lane so if he comes up on a slower vehicle he can get over and not rear end something, be a blocker for him he’s not gonna be able to slow down with that much heat, hopefully he will remember and not get in that situation again

Coming down the mountain !!

Im not making excuses. But he was in a volvo. The last volvo i ran would not give me jake brakes in 9th gear at 45 mph. 45mph zone On i68 in maryland with 45000 lbs in the box. Computer kept telling me i was overspeeding the motor. I smoked them real good. Damn Volvo. Id rather drive an L10 cummins with a jake and 8LL in a L9000 ford 16ft triaxle dump truck 80000 Lb gross. Than to drive a Volvo. anywhere.

About a month ago a truck caught fire at the bottom of the hill and nothing left but a charred frame

6% please,gimme a break come up here to British Columbia and run some 8,9,11% hills. 6% is a joke that’s nothing.

Fitting listening to trump on the race to the bottom

Not bad great video

I like how truckers always say the obvious things LoL 😅 😅😅 😅 hey your brakes are smoking thanks sir as I'm rolling to a ramp LoL 😅 😅

@buckberthod5007

2 жыл бұрын

You'd honestly be surprised by how many don't attention to what's going on. They'll just drive till they catch fire

Damn on 6% grade? I come down 12% and never got my brakes hot ever!

@cujbaion1

4 жыл бұрын

Will pay those pads and will remember the lesson 👨‍🔧

Brakes, not breaks, unless he's breaking the brakes.

Smoked the trailer brakes not the tractor brakes. Is this still the fault of the driver? Well it could be because you are supposed to check how much pads you have left before heading out.. but with OTR we never check.

@rjl886

6 жыл бұрын

thats kinda scary

He was using the trailer brake to save his tractor brakes,he must be a contractor.

Maybe his slack adjustment is out and the s cam lock up the brakes :)

So this is what it looks like during the day! LMAO

So what gear do y’all take it on when heavy?

I was once on a 35% grade in alaska. I didn't even smoke the brakes but then, I was riding in a bus.

18 wheels of Steel haulin

Looks like a normal drive to me

You light going down that mountain

What kind of camera do you have there

Chattanooga side or Nashville side?

Monteagle is not a bad hill for those whose driven more than a year. It is a long stretch but its not the bad. Drop 2 gears jakes on high and let her ride.

@lowkeyred9467

6 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Byrd it’s not just about experience it’s also about the truck if maintenance isn’t kept up then it can become dangerous

🙄 I’ve been down Monteagle twice as a rookie driver. It’s not that serious. Driving a semi involves a lot of common sense, which apparently some people just don’t have.

The clouds were cool anyway

Ok u going to help him

A little smoke doesn't hurt a thing brand new lining will smoke a little till they brake in you all should have drove back when we didn't have Jakes most people today would have killed themselves

Just watched this identical video the other day with a different title.

Wow dash cam footage in 60 FPS. I feel so spoiled by this...

I would be too nervous, to drive a big truck

+Ryan Longo Do make Daliy trucking Vlogs Like Allie Knight ?

Automatic shit gearbox or wrong shift to down; in my city every day have trucks seated in the only brake lane, by week at least two truck turn over by over-speed; its hard to be truck driver in my country, most of the hi-way have mountain passages, north is for experts; newby drivers go to south; the first trip to north alwaiys in the left seat to learn and know the road dangers, how not over-hot all in the truck (include to see and know the feared desert hot-rear wind when climbing) that over hot and destroy the engines in minutes.

Little hill called the rock

That’s Averitt express

at least he was at bottom of hill when they started smokin bad

That Averitt driver was at the bottom and probably didn't even bother stopping. Get off the brakes, they'll cool off soon enough.