Mountain Driving 101: How truck brakes work, and how they overheat (Episode 1)

[@jonnydemnutz7693]

5:03 "If the brake is not properly adjusted to begin with, things can go downhill pretty quickly." Anybody else catch that epic pun?

[@screamneagle8420]

Sure did!😂

[@renedominguez7621]

Awesome video a guy told me the same , if your stabbing the brakes your going to fast

[@dryan8377]

This was good. I was taught in the early 90's to hold slight pressure in steep grades. Not the stab method, but it was implied on the road.

[@sisutrucks]

I have an old school Volvo with drum brakes, with Volvos Z cam. Such a big difference with the disc brakes that trucks are fitted with now days. My newest truck have the i shift, with crawler gears and hydraulic retarder. That brake have to be used smartly as so powerful it can wear down the drive tires really fast.

[@trashratt]

Castlegar is a wonderful place. I live in Abbotsford, it's also wonderful. Would never go back to the city!

[@ninonicebx]

Awesome information. Ty.

[@davidgriffin14]

Good description.

[@sutliffgnassi9925]

Thank you so much - great, useful content!

[@waitemc]

I just engaged my trailer wings and trim out my trucks flaps and fly over the hill and glide down untill I find a place to land.

[@harley8918]

Stop lying, I watched you stick your feet through the hole in the floor and when that didn't work you pulled the parachute.

[@waitemc]

@@harley8918 hahaha! Engage Flintstone drag brakes!

[@AlatisheAzeez-j1b]

brake mechanism

[@DJSTOEK]

💘

[@Sinister_Reaper]

They talk as if there wasn't a point in time where trucks didn't have Jake brakes lol one of my trucks doesn't have a Jake brake, never had a problem on hills if you do it right