Driving Down Monteagle Mountain Tennessee

[@paulellis2208]

I took an interesting ride over that mountain back in '08. I had a 45' tri-axle trailer behind a 2500 Dodge/Cummins. Spit the idler pulley out about 3/4 of the way down throwing the serpentine belt off. No power brakes, no power steering, no exhaust brake. Luckily, the electric brakes on the trailer got me slowed down and stopped on the shoulder almost at the bottom. I was hauling a 3/4 ton work truck and a '41 Buick.

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Now i neeever want to be in that situation. Good thing you had good tlr brake! Oh and had it hooked up properly also👍🏼

[@AlanHenryDeBoerSr]

When I used to go over this mountail in the 80's, there were no mandatory safety stops at all.

[@theresemalmberg955]

The reason why the eastbound lanes of I-24 descending Monteagle have such a steep grade is because they were built directly on the roadbed of old US 41, the Dixie Highway. For a mountain that is just shy of 2,000 feet, it has long had a surprising reputation as a killer. This video doesn't do justice to what driving this road is really like. It makes it seem flatter than it really is. I have driven Monteagle on both present-day US 41 and I-24 and I can tell you this is one mountain you don't take for granted! Those runaway lanes have saved a lot of lives.

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Absolutely Correct💯 It Is Very Steep and has A Hard Lean with a curve in part of the drop!

[@matthewschiebout7384]

well maintained equipment and following the speed limit makes that hill a breeze. Alaska has 10% grades, very twisty 2 lane roads, snow, ice and no a single run off ramp...and that's not very talking about the Dalton!

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

@@matthewschiebout7384 10% 👀grade is insane! On snow and ice doesnt sound llike thats going to end well.

[@JoeSmith-nu8oo]

My peeps running down the hill with doubles leaving everyone in the dust🤣

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Your peeps got big ones

[@MarshallMcCrory]

​@@TrucknandTravelUSA If a so called trucker can't drive down Mt. Eagle without smokin.....He needs to turn in his CDL. The ones that make smoke are proof of two things..... 1......CRAPPY/POOR EQUIPMENT 2......PROOF that CDL SCHOOLS are A JOKE

[@mikioni]

Very nice😊😊

[@John_Lukas]

I drove this last week my 2nd week solo otr and didn’t feel like a big deal jus jake break and watch speed … lol

[@cdnrednek1027]

Been up and down that one numerous times, no big deal, it's only 6% grade. Cmon up and run some 8 and 9% grades in the Cda rockies. It's against federal law to have more than a 6% grade on any Interstate Hwy.

[@johnhudelson2652]

On Interstate 70 west of the.Eisenhower and Johnson tunnels the.grade is 7 percent. Perhaps the road builders got a waiver if indeed the.6 percent grade is the rule.

[@MarkBerg-tk8js]

Only one on interstate USA on 65.

[@jimmiemarkum6718]

I have done this many times.

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

👍🏼

[@jackrabbit4383]

Ever tried to sleep at 13, 000 ft in elevation. You're going to wake up every few hours gasping for air like you were running a marathon if you're not acclimated to thin air...😅

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

🤣🤣🤣No and do not want to try that! Good luck with that one🤣 Where and why?🤣

[@benjones7641]

He makes sure to point out the mandatory inspection station and even drives into it but goes straight through without inspecting… wtf!

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Good point. Theres a Pilot truck stop at the last exit headed down where i stop to let the brakes cool and take a brake. Thats where im leaving when i cross the bridge headed back down to the interstate👍🏼

[@JoeSmith-nu8oo]

Bro no one ever stops there, you pull up and if the light is red you stop if it's green you keep rolling. The only trucks stopped there are taking a 10 or a 30 break.

[@ronshupe9905]

Hey us express, you forgot to stop!😅

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

🤣 not Swift‼️

[@shawnmoore288]

He definitely needs to drive the passes from the rockies west six percent for four miles is nothing for out west most moutain pass downgrade is six percent for six or miles .There is a grade in Washington state that is seven percent for almost ten miles

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Got you some Rockies footage coming soon just went 70 through Vegas into LA. Dont want to do that ever again in the winter🤣

[@wyatt12358]

HOW MANY MILES IS THAT. DONE DONNERS AND CABAGE PATCH AND GRAPE VINE. NODINE, MN. COMING DOWN INTO LA CROSSE, WI. IS STEEP.

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Only about 6-7 miles. Not long at all But! be careful

[@wyatt12358]

GUTTENBURG, IA. ON HIGHWAY 52 IS STEEP

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Been all over IA and never came across anything real steep🤔

[@ronshupe9905]

I call them runaway ramps "JB Hunt scenic view" ramps

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jackrabbit4383]

12000 feet in elevation in a blizzard on i15 in Montana at 2:00am you must install tire chains or go to jail if you don't comply the fines in Colorado on i70 is thousands of dollars if you block traffic 😂

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Yeah I try to stay east of Denver especially in the winter but even around Monta Vista is bad at 10,000 feet. The whole driving on chains thing “Ain’t For Me!”🤣

[@michaelhayes1340]

Scenic mountains ⛰️ whole lot better than when it was hwy 42

[@jackrabbit4383]

This highway is deceptive, poorly designed most drivers that get into trouble have no mountain driving experience this has long been a new drivers training route along with i84 i77 in w .Virginia. Virginia. N.carolina . Then if they survive they go to the big western mountains. Rocky mountains passes Sierra Nevada mountains, and many more ascending i15 in Montana some truck speed is 25 mph on a major interstate where auto speed is 70 mph screaming around mountain passes past trucks going 25mph such a good time 😅at 2:30 am.in the darkness 😂

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

I can Not do Montana at 2am🤣 Ill agree Monteagle and Fancy Gap are easy runs compared to the Rockies.

[@YADAMNDADDY]

​@TrucknandTravelUSA dont disrespect fancy gap. It has claimed many lives brother.

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

@@YADAMNDADDY I agree 100% but think about this, when you leave Denver going west you literally go from 5500ft to over 10000ft in less than 200 miles! Then you gotta come down. Add 7 more miles to Fancy gap and then run down that hill about 4 times In a 10 hour shift 😨🤣. I'm not even talking about Montana ever! Maybe in mid summer during the day but NO!

[@YADAMNDADDY]

@TrucknandTravelUSA im recent new driver. So, the fancy gap is my only mountain driving. But what makes fancy gap very dangerous to me is that speed limits are left to the discretion of the driver(no posted speed for trucks). All you see is 65mph speed limit. At night time, there are trucks literally booking 70-75 mph down the mountain not using brakes or nothing. Im nickname the mountain "the quiet k*ller" cause it gives off the illusion as long as you keep the truck in your lane you'll be aight. But for sure them mountains out west is a different animal, but always remember fancy gap is the quiet k*ller. Also barely any signs to let you know when the slope begins.

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

@@YADAMNDADDY All facts! When Fancy gap gets you it's mostly driver error and it's easy to underestimate. I came down a few times that I should've stayed at that circle k or whatever that is at the last exit coming down, fog so bad you can't see 10 feet sometimes even during the day! And yeah you got those guys that's been driving it since 1987 doing 80 so it's definitely not something I want to do every day. I've only been out here for 4 years now.

[@garryfloyd883]

😮 turn her loose boys

[@robertcrawford2949]

You didn't stop and check jack shit.

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

🤣🤣🤣 Theres a Pilot truck stop at the top.

[@ronshupe9905]

Never do

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

@@ronshupe9905 Thats a fact…but not saying its a bad idea to stop though… been down that hill 50 times and “Never do”🤣 I usaully pull in to the Pilot at the top of the hill or just keep rolln.

[@brianwilson6403]

I absolutely HATE this stretch of highway.

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Yeah just think of it this way “it could be 6 miles longer”🤔🙂

[@DavidAllen-l9x]

They, tn highway patrol, will ticket you if you ran i

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Don’t want no problems with TN highway Patrol at all!

[@michaelhayes1340]

41

[@dennisa.brinck5988]

This dude is in the wrong gear or doesn't have his Jake on....using the foot brakes way too much....I used to run this mountain, twice every night, round trip, 5 nights a week.....8th gear with Jake brake on #2 for upto 30,000 in the box.

[@TrucknandTravelUSA]

Im in a Automatic and ive blown up a truck in 2020 over doing the jakebrake thing but that was my first Automatic truck. It was a 2019 with onlt 240k miles did 22000$ in damage to the motor on this same mountain. But you are right though